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Em Portugal, a intensidade dos incêndios tem vindo a aumentar em dimensão e recorrência,
trazendo consequências devastadoras ao país, tanto a nível humano como material. Como
tal, neste trabalho-projeto desenvolvemos o protótipo de uma aplicação de crowdsourcing
para a prevenção, combate e mitigação dos incêndios em Portugal, com base num estudo
realizado no âmbito do crowdsourcing, das redes sociais, do engagement, da inovação na
gestão de crises e do jornalismo de catástrofe que nos permitisse responder à questão de
investigação “Que características deverá ter uma aplicação de crowdsourcing para combater
o flagelo dos incêndios?”.
Para o efeito contámos ainda com 504 respostas a um inquérito por questionário sobre a
potencial adesão a uma plataforma deste género e com as entrevistas concedidas pelos
fundadores e/ou membros das equipas de suporte de quatro das sete plataformas que
analisámos no âmbito de um benchmarking.
Daqui surgiu o protótipo da MyFire, uma aplicação de crowdsourcing para smartphones,
tablets e computadores com funcionalidades como a partilha e curadoria da informação pelos
utilizadores, a tradução dessa informação para outros idiomas, o contacto directo com os
stakeholders tradicionais de gestão e resposta a incêndios, a disponibilização de rotas de
trânsito rodoviário seguras e livres de incêndios e de listas de formas de prevenção deste tipo
de catástrofes naturais e a agregação de conteúdos noticiosos de imprensa sobre o tema.
In Portugal, the intensity of wildfires has increased when it comes to dimension and recurrence, bringing devastating consequences to the country, at both human and material levels. As such, in this work-project we developed the prototype of a crowdsourcing application for the prevention, combat and mitigation of wildfires in Portugal, based on a study carried out in the fields of crowdsourcing, social networks, engagement, innovation in crisis management and catastrophe journalism that would allow us to respond to the research question "What characteristics should a crowdsourcing application have in order to combat the scourge of wildfires?". To that end, we also had 504 responses to a questionnaire survey about the potential adherence to such a platform and the interviews provided by the founders and/or support team members of four of the seven platforms we analyzed in the benchmarking section. From here came the prototype of MyFire, a crowdsourcing application for smartphones, tablets and computers with features such as information sharing and curation by users themselves, translation of such information into other languages, the direct contact with the traditional stakeholders of fire management and response, the provision of safe and fire-free road transit routes and lists of ways to prevent such natural disasters and the aggregation of press news content on this subject.
In Portugal, the intensity of wildfires has increased when it comes to dimension and recurrence, bringing devastating consequences to the country, at both human and material levels. As such, in this work-project we developed the prototype of a crowdsourcing application for the prevention, combat and mitigation of wildfires in Portugal, based on a study carried out in the fields of crowdsourcing, social networks, engagement, innovation in crisis management and catastrophe journalism that would allow us to respond to the research question "What characteristics should a crowdsourcing application have in order to combat the scourge of wildfires?". To that end, we also had 504 responses to a questionnaire survey about the potential adherence to such a platform and the interviews provided by the founders and/or support team members of four of the seven platforms we analyzed in the benchmarking section. From here came the prototype of MyFire, a crowdsourcing application for smartphones, tablets and computers with features such as information sharing and curation by users themselves, translation of such information into other languages, the direct contact with the traditional stakeholders of fire management and response, the provision of safe and fire-free road transit routes and lists of ways to prevent such natural disasters and the aggregation of press news content on this subject.
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Crowdsourcing Redes sociais Engagement Inovação na gestão de crises Jornalismo de catástrofe Social networks Innovation in crisis management Catastrophe journalism