New Publication: Challenges in the adoption of crisis crowdsourcing and social media in Canadian emergency management

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
by Peter Johnson

Congrats to former GEM masters student Sara Harrison (now pursuing a PhD at Massey University, NZ) for her recent publication of a chapter of her MES thesis in the leading international journal of government/information studies - Government Information Quarterly. This paper builds on in-person interviews to identify and critically assess some of the challenges that governments face in adoption new forms of citizen-contributed data. Download the paper: "Challenges in the adoption of crisis crowdsourcing and social media in Canadian emergency management".