The initial proposal aims to collaboratively develop a smart community toolkit that empowers communities to better manage natural hazards. We aim to enhance communities’ capacity to understand and share disaster-related data, increase risk awareness, and facilitate humanitarian actions, such as organizing volunteer activities and managing logistics during emergencies. Our vision is for the community to collaboratively analyse data—sourced from both official city channels and crowd inputs—and make informed decisions based on this information. We aim to allow citizens to report information regarding floods (or other hazards) via social media and other channels (to be defined with the cities) and this information will be available in a real-time map, showing risk areas and areas that need attention. We believe that the concept of collective crisis intelligence (CCI), combining large scale data from communities with AI, merging top-down and bottom-up approaches in a two-way communication system holds high promises in crises situations. CCI platform allows to analyse locally produced data on the evolving situation on a larger scale and thus, gaining better situational awareness for more efficient decisions on all levels.
