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Citizen Sensors: Mobile Social Networks for the Public Good
http://web.mac.com/jothyr/Work/Blog/Blog.html
A resource and forum to discuss Crisis and Public Safety Informatics. Specifically, mobile technology applied to creating social networks for public safety. E.g. campus security, neighborhood watch, or even just reporting potholes.
- Added on: Nov 2nd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jothy Rosenberg
- Listed in: Mobile Society
- Tags: Mobile social networks public safety emergency management citizen sensor crisis informatics
Recent Posts
End-to-end Operation of Local Eyes in a Neighborhood Watch Scenario
Using the link below you can see a 10 minute video demonstration of the functioning of Local Eyes. Using a neighborhood watch scenario, I captured screen shots of the creation of a Gizmo from scratch using pictures for each menu choice the user will ...
Mobile Orchestrated Networking
Getting a diverse but like-minded group of people who are inherently mobile to work effectively towards the common good of the group is a challenge.Social networks are unstructured and undisciplined at best and are just citizen journalism or blog or ...
Opening the Mobile Walled Gardens: What Does This Mean?
The AnnouncementThis week Verizon made a surprise announcement. Here is what they said: “In early 2008, the company will publish the technical standards the development community will need to design products to interface with the Verizon Wireless n...
Local Eyes video on Citizen Sensor Communities
Attached here is a Quicktime video we have created to explain our approach to Citizen Sensor Communities for Public Safety and Crisis Management. It runs about 11 minutes....
Excerpt from ICT for Crisis and Emergency Mgmt: Asking the Right Questions
In an article being presented this week in Delft, The Netherlands (photo is of Delft) called ICT for Crisis and Emergency Management: Asking the Right Questions, John R. Harrald, Director Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management at The Geor...
Mobile Social Trends
Part I: Mobile Social TrendsThis three part white paper entitled Citizen Sensors: Putting the 'Public' Back in Public Safety, shows how the confluence of two very important wireless mobile forces is leading to a transformation in the way public safet...
The world's first mobile social networking accessory that connects you with people who are around you up to hundreds of meters while keeping your location privacy - due to the short range wireless this company uses, no company can know or can track your location unlike Location Based systems. It's hot now in Taiwan and China used for dating, fun and just making new friends!
www.magnetu.com
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