Emergency 2.0 Wiki Project

The Emergency 2.0 Wiki will be a new collaborative model for sharing and advancing knowledge on utilising web2.0 and social media in emergency management. Following the Queensland Floods and Cyclone Yasi of early 2011, the gov2qld group met to plan a crisis communications debriefing workshop to share learnings from the use of social media in these disasters. Project Leader, Eileen Culleton, presented to the group her idea of capturing and leveraging these learnings by creating an emergency 2.0 wiki to provide best practice advice on how to use social media and web 2.0 in all phases of emergency management. She shared her vision of an emergency 2.0 empowered community in which all sectors – emergency, government, not for profit, community, business, education and media and the public had the knowledge to use social media to better prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. Her vision involved the wiki acting as a hub for collaboration and knowledge sharing across the community, locally and globally. Click this link to go to the website.