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Indonesia: How tweeting about floods became a civic duty in Jakarta
2016-01-25 10:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five major floods hit Indonesias capital, Jakarta, in 2015, sparking more than 100,000 flood-related Twitter conversations in the city. Jakarta, the worlds second largest city, is regularly devastated by flooding during the annual monsoon. The global proliferation of smartphones has meant citizens increasingly take to social media networks to share information during emergency events like these. Thats why PetaJakarta.org (Map Jakarta) was born: its an online platform that transforms Twitter...
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