An Analysis of the use of Cognitive Surplus in DisasterRelief Scenarios

Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Crisis Management, A workshop in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence

计算机科学;管理科学

Mark Roddy1

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学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In an increasingly connected world, can the cognitive surplus of the online community be effectively harnessed to help in the assistance ofmanaging global disasters? Does this community even want to assist withdisaster relief? The relief experts on the ground are continually beingconfronted with life and death scenarios, so how can they trust the veracity ofany assistance provided by the online community? By providing examples ofexisting disaster management systems that have successfully leveraged theonline community to assist in disaster relief, this paper suggests that onlinephilanthropy exists, albeit this assistance does need to be manually verified.The paper goes on to use the results from an online survey to hypothesize acollective intelligence model for trusting this assistance. The potential impact ofthis could be to reduce the burden that the disaster relief teams have to exert in