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Eric Swalwell: “At the last hearing we heard from private-sector witnesses that although social media has allowed us to make great…”

On the recordJune 3, 2013
At the last hearing we heard from private-sector witnesses that although social media has allowed us to make great strides in how we respond to disasters or emergencies, the lack of uniform open-source data standards hindered the abilities of companies like Google to develop social media tools during disasters.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Swalwell highlights challenges in using social media for disaster response due to data standardization issues.

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