An Analysis of the use of Cognitive Surplus in Disaster Relief Scenarios
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In an increasingly connected world, can the cognitive surplus of the online community be effectively harnessed to help in the assistance of managing global disasters? Does this community even want to assist with disaster relief? The relief experts on the ground are continually being confronted with life and death scenarios, so how can they trust the veracity of any assistance provided by the online community? By providing examples of existing disaster management systems that have successfully leveraged the online community to assist in disaster relief, this paper suggests that online philanthropy exists, albeit this assistance does need to be manually verified. The paper goes on to use the results from an online survey to hypothesize a collective intelligence model for trusting this assistance. The potential impact of this could be to reduce the burden that the disaster relief teams have to exert in order to verify and validate this assistance.
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