News

The European Commission published results from our survey among ES

The results of the survey we conducted have been picked up by the european commission and can be reviewed here in english and on the Publications part in our Website.

Deliverable about System Architecture has been finalized

Our overall system architecture has been specified in the Deliverable 6.1. You can find a summary on the Publications part of our website.

Survey of Citizens’ Attitudes towards Social Media

Following our Survey of the attitudes of Emergency Service staff towards social media (see: Survey Results of Emergency Service Staff Attitudes towards Social Media), we are now conducting a Survey of citizens’ attitudes towards social media and their views on using social media during emergencies. Please help us by completing this Survey – it is available in several languages at the following links:

Translations of our Survey Results from 12/12/2014 available

Results of our survey of emergency service staff attitudes towards social media have been translated into a German and Slovenian version.

D4.6 has been finalized

We have specified our Information Mining and Information Quality components. You can have a look at the findings summed up in a nutshell on the Publications part of our website.

3 new Deliverables have been finished

You can find details about our three new Deliverables on the Publications site:

  • D2.2: Impact of Social Media for ES and citizens
  • D5.2: Design of Information Routing
  • D5.3: Design of Social Apps

Survey Results of Emergency Service Staff Attitudes towards Social Media

This is a summary report of the findings from a survey of 696 Emergency Service staff across 27 European countries conducted between 9th September and 15th October 2014. The main aims of the survey were to explore Emergency Service staff’s attitudes towards social media for private and organizational use and the levels and main factors influencing their current and likely future use of social media in their organizations.

Key findings

  • The majority of Emergency Service staff have positive attitudes towards the use of social media for both private and organizational purposes
  • However, there are significant differences in the attitudes among different types of Emergency Service staff, in terms of their gender, age, and geographical location – thus, female, young staff and those based in countries with high levels of social media use are, on average, significantly more likely to express positive attitudes towards the use of social media for both private and organizational purposes

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First Meeting of the End-User-Advisory Board (EAB)

The End-User-Advisory Board has met on the 8th October in Poznan, Poland in order to discuss first results and further development.

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The End-User-Advisory Board (EAB) team

D5.1 Identification of Social Network Providers and API Design

This deliverable presents the EmerGent Social Media API for continuously gathering data from
various social media services. The document provides a documentation of the functionality
and endpoints for accessing data from different social media services; this includes:

  •  a discussion about selected social media services the API focuses on
  • a discussion of potentials of related technologies and APIs
  • an overall API architecture design
  • the data structure and its representation
  • a technical functionality overview and documentation

For further information please check: Deliverable 5.1

Survey: Potentials of Social media in Emergencies

Our project is guided by practical research: First we want to find out what emergency services really need and what the situation is like at the moment via a very short online survey which will only take 5-10 minutes to complete.

We are interested to know whether you have already had experiences in collaborating with citizens via social media, what problems you have experienced, and what you think the role social media could play in future crisis management. Your input and feedback will guide the development of technical prototypes, which we hope will be of relevance to you and your organization and will be further developed through testing and redevelopment.

Please be reassured that your responses to this survey will be anonymous and treated in strictest confidence, and the results of the survey in anonymized form can be accessed on the project website or emailed to you.

We would be very grateful if you would support us in answering our questions:

Please visit https://www.fp7-emergent.eu/survey/