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Earthquake in Centre Italy

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Quick Facts

Terremoto Centro Italia is an opensource and open access crowdsourcing platform with the purpose to provide a space where people can share useful and verified information and requests about earthquakes that hit Central Italy between 2016-2017. The platform is a no profit initiative totally based on the work of volunteers.

Event type:

Earthquake

Year:

2016

Location:

42.706, 13.223

Type

Crowdsourcing

Thematic

Collecting and Analysing Information from SMCS
Mobilising Volunteers

Disaster Management Phase

Analysis

Description

In August 2016, a big earthquake, magnitude 6.0, hit the Centre of Italy and created a lot of damages and victims: a lot of houses, edifices, and structures collapsed, also one of the hospitals has been damaged, and people found themselves homeless. There have been around 300 victims and around 400 wounded. In the first moments of the emergency, nobody knew the entity of the disaster. Then, a lot of information started to arrive but there was no a “virtual place” where to collect all the information. Thus, a group of computer technicians, experts in civic hacking, on a voluntary basis decided to create the platform where the information could be verified. A lot of people from Italy were engaged to ensure the platform could work effectively. People consulting the platform could see who and how to help or get help. The efficiency of the platform was ensured by the participation of ActionAid, an international NGO involved in the response phase.

What worked well and should be replicated in the future?

It worked well so it has been replicated for the COVID-19 pandemic People from different parts of Italy provided their help and support thanks to the section “Needs” The platform is easy and intuitive to access, there are few sections but very clear It allows people to have official information on behaviours to have and on what was happening An NGO helped a lot in the diffusion and in the sharing of the platform, ensuring also the continuity in work and reliability of information The information provided were verified before The section “fake news” helped a lot of people to identify the correct information and avoid the risks of disinformation and fakes

What limitations were identified? What didn't work well?

Problem of fake news and disinformation Problems of accessibility: there are some accessibility rules that have not been satisfied

Which DMOs were involved?

ActionAid, OpenStreetMap

Which technologies were used?

OpenStreetMap

Which guidelines were used?

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