Helping the Austrian government evaluate social media for disasters

Research team investigates how to use social media to improve disaster and emergency response.

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.

E-book: The Power of Social Media

The Power of Social Media: Public Safety and Crisis Management

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?

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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.

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.

Tracking Storm Darcy on social media

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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.

Resilience: Crisis Management in the Social Media Age

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PublicSonar was recognised by the Emergency Planning Society for “providing the best information at the point of decision-making”. Below you can read more about what it means to manage a crisis in a digital age.