Social Media to Help Disaster Relief
Economic Times Gadget Now India Today Business Standard Business Standard (PTI) Devdiscourse VC Circle Your posts on social media and internal messaging applications can now help victims receive relief during natural disasters. While you tweet about the situation of the victims in specific locations in English or Hindi, a computer program can read through your empathetic post and send the relevant information to nearby relief operators. A research team led by Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur is developing the algorithms for this task. At the wake of the recent Kerala floods and other…