Web 2.0 and Internet Social Networking: A New tool for Disaster Management? - Lessons from Taiwan
Open Access
- 6 October 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Vol. 10 (1), 57
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-10-57
Abstract
Internet social networking tools and the emerging web 2.0 technologies are providing a new way for web users and health workers in information sharing and knowledge dissemination. Based on the characters of immediate, two-way and large scale of impact, the internet social networking tools have been utilized as a solution in emergency response during disasters. This paper highlights the use of internet social networking in disaster emergency response and public health management of disasters by focusing on a case study of the typhoon Morakot disaster in Taiwan.Keywords
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