Online Media Mining for Water & Development

Using online media and user generated content for water management and food security. People share. We listen.

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Getting the best from online media data from-the-ground

FloodTags helps its customers analyse online media and user generated content for water management and food security. Data sources include online news articles, blogs, forums, Twitter, Facebook public pages, and user generated content such as SMS and user shared data from Apps. We analyse these sources by using a mix of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and combinations with external data sources, including satellite imagery. Applications comprise an array of real-time and historic (trend) analysis for emergency flood response, water scarcity management, water conflict resolution, integrated water management, food security and other water- and development related applications. Among our Clients: Worldbank, United Nations and the Red Cross. Read more about our work.

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Collect, Analyse and Share

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During and after water crises, citizens share thousands of messages online, describing the situation and the way they are coping with it. FloodTags listens.

Our Mission

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In an open innovation model, FloodTags and its academic partners develop and improve algorithms to filter and enrich the data for specific applications.

Develop with Us

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Clients get a full overview of the situation on-the-ground, by connecting to FloodTags' online data service from within their existing information systems.

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FloodTags has a partner network of top universities and institutions, with whom we improve our scripts for a wide range of use cases. If you are a university or knowledge institute, anywhere in the world, working on water problems and online data: Contact us and get access to the API and Software Development Kit.

 
 

Deltares

Radboud University Nijmegen

VU University Amsterdam

UNPAD Indonesia

FloodTags in the News

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Tweets turned into flood maps that could help save lives

BY MEGAN ROWLING

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Spontaneous tweets about major floods are being turned into a mapping tool that could be used by emergency services and disaster response teams to save lives and provide aid, Dutch researchers said.

When a crisis strikes, people increasingly find out about it from social media, as individuals and groups take to the internet to spread the word.

After the Indonesian capital Jakarta was hit by floods this February, related tweets peaked at almost 900 a minute, with a significant number including information about location and water depth, according to a joint study by two Dutch organizations, Deltares and Floodtags. Read more

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About us

FloodTags is a social enterprise with head office in The Hague, The Netherlands. Together with a large number of researchers from top universities and institutes, we develop and implement data analysis scripts for water management.

We believe that citizens and communities are key resources in the solution of many water management problems. As we are growing, we find that our work is now supporting many different aspects of water management. Citizens are being listened to and decision makers can take effective and supported action.

Follow us on Twitter @FloodTags for the latest news.