EmerGent: Relevance of Social Media in Emergencies.

We recently started a new project – EmerGent, which is a 3 year European project researching the impact of social media by emergency services during a crisis.

Whenever there’s a large fire, riot, earthquake or other crisis a lot of information immediately appears in social media – some valuable, some completely erroneous. With our partners we are developing tools and techniques for mining and validating that content.

The EU-FP7 EmerGent project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 608352. Find out more about EmerGent and its partners on the project website.