These tools gather information from sources such as emails, text messages, and tweets and make the information instantly and publicly available for use in emergencies.

Crisis-Mapping

Explanation:

Social networks are characterized by the immediacy of the content that users produce, and that same feature can be transferred to the online mapping of crises and conflicts.

Characteristics Crisis-Mapping:

Real-time information processing. Immediacy; Visualization of the aggregated information can allow the detection of patterns that cause new analyzes to be undertaken or work hypothesis to verify. Continuity in the tasks, the maps record activity without interruption during the twenty-four hours of the day and seven days per week. Flexibility in the protocols, since the tasks are distributed and evolve according to the dynamics (the crisis maps evolve with the crisis itself).