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Navigating Climate Change Using Social Media Insights
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and its impact is being felt by organizations around the world.
Proven effectiveness of Social Media in Emergency Response and Crisis Management
Research shows that emergency responders can benefit from using social media to gather valuable insights and enhance situational awareness during emergencies. By leveraging the power of social media, emergency responders can respond more effectively to crises and better serve their communities
ECC’s: how to save time, get better insights and make better decisions
As emergency communication centers (ECC’s, 911 dispatch centers) continue to face challenges in their efforts to respond to crises and disasters, real-time intelligence using social media has emerged as a potential solution.
ICAART 2022 | Victor Margallo
Our Data Scientist Victor Margallo presented his paper at the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2022. Learn more about the paper below.
Helping the Austrian government evaluate social media for disasters
When the Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior wanted to evaluate the use of social media to improve disaster management and emergency response, it turned to AI experts PublicSonar. The result of our collaborative research project was iLiKe – an innovative, intelligent situation information portal to support emergency organizations for disaster management. Learn more about harnessing social media for disaster management.
Press Release: Partnership between PublicSonar and RapidSOS
PublicSonar and RapidSOS partner to provide real-time social media intelligence to 911 centers. Read the official press release below.
E-book: The Power of Social Media
Over the years, we have collected several cases that demonstrate the power of social media for public safety. Download our e-book now and learn more about online monitoring.
Emergency planning: how can social media contribute to situational awareness?
A recent report by a British NGO lists the ten most financially impactful natural disasters of 2021. The floods in Europe are in second place. Reason enough to look at what information was available online at the time of the disaster and how to make it accessible quickly for emergency planning and response purposes.
Whitepaper: Intelligent Innovation for Public Safety and Emergencies
Information management during disruptive events brings many challenges. There are technological innovations that lead to better-informed decision-making and help emergency teams respond more quickly. Download our whitepaper below to learn more.
2021 Data Science and AI: Startups & Scale-ups
InnovationQuarter has published the 2021 edition of the AI startup and scale-up ecosystem for the province of Zuid-Holland. We are very proud to be part of the market map. Read more below.
Six tips for monitoring social media
As a municipality, province or security region, you want to know early on when something threatens to get out of hand and you want to know exactly what is going on. How do you make use of the billions of messages on Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and (weather/news) websites? Read the 6 tips in the blog below.
PSNI selects PublicSonar as their partner
PublicSonar welcomes the PSNI as their latest public safety partner. Read more about our partnership.
Traffic Control Centre The Hague: “Combination of systems saves time”
We had a look behind the scenes at one of our customers: the Traffic Control Centre of the Municipality of The Hague. They have been using social media monitoring for years. Read below how PublicSonar is used for their traffic management.
What is intelligence-led policing without smart use of open data?
Intelligence-led policing is proving invaluable for police authorities in preventing and mitigating (potential) risks and threats. Incorporating open data is of great importance, but not without challenges. Read more in this article.
PublicSonar participates in EU Horizon 2020 project to increase disaster resilience
Press release: PublicSonar participates in the EU Horizon 2020 project RiskPACC to increase disaster resilience by closing the Risk Perception Action Gap (RPAG).
Understanding Public Sentiment for Public Safety & Security
During incidents: are citizens angry or confused? Valuable information is needed to enhance public safety and security. Read more about how public sentiment can inform your decision-making.
In the news: “We make the world safer”
In the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, Till Behne portrays how technology companies were founded and what was needed to make them a success. PublicSonar was featured with a full-page interview with our CEO Sjors van den Dries.
Safe elections during Covid-19
Insights from open data and sentiment analysis contributed to ensuring safe elections in the Netherlands during Covid-19. Below you can read more about the value of publicly available data.
Data Science and AI in PublicSonar – by Victor Margallo
Introduction to the concepts of AI and Data Science and how we make use of them in our company PublicSonar.
Tracking Storm Darcy on social media
How to identify insights tracking over 120.000 social media messages about Storm Darcy? How to cut through the noise? Read it on our blog below.
