Transferring Data in Disaster Management

Crises and disasters occur all over the world with the highest impact on the most vulnerable groups in society. Generating a trusted status of information out of a multitude of reliable and relevant data about a critical situation is a priority for effective and coordinated disaster management and relief measures delivered by governmental organizations (GOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Data gathering, processing, information visualization (internal as well as external) and dissemination for decision support and mitigation is performed via a number of different channels. The QuOIMAproject, funded by the Austrian Security Research Program KIRAS, focused on the various possibilities to use publicly available, open source data generated in the sphere of traditional (online distributed) and social media.