Crisis management and how to empower it with crowdsourcing

The paper presents the topic which has been treated by many researches and which speaks in favour of finding technological solutions for the processing and verification of the relevance of the abundant data set. The goal is to obtain relevant information which can be used not only for inputs to agencies in charge of resolving the crisis but also for the creation of "collective intelligence" which can enable, faster than any media used by crisis management, the affected to get the key and verified information and help them in making right decisions. Some of the platforms which assesses their usefulness and mentions other positive examples of the social media use by government institutions, a local government and world public service.