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Natural Disasters: Flooding
The Niagara Region (Canada) is nicely nestled in between Lake Erie & Lake Ontario, with Lake Huron nearby. I think if flooding would certainly be an issue here.
Potential Future Crisis: Environmental
There's several things going on here: the climate is changing and is not dependable. We've had warm winters, dry summers or wet summers - strange extremes that don't reflect the norm. It's affected local produce and wineries, and also what people grow privately.I also think we have an issue with contaminated soil (Love Canal in the U.S. is not so far away), and problems with too much garbage
Crowdsourced Crisis Information:
Benefits-quick circulation of information: text, video, voice, image audio
Constraints-it takes a lot of volunteers to keep the information flowing (ie: translators); cell phone towers go down (need for sattelite access)
How to use Ushahidi locally?
-map the outbreaks of political violence; terrorists
-map & chronicle outbreaks of disease -natural disasters
-critical response information & communication for Emergency Services (police, fire, ambulance)
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