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Saving Indonesians from climate disasters, one social media post at a time

Disaster monitoring Indonesia

Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Can bots save lives? An Indonesian architect who harnesses social media to improve disaster relief – a project that on Friday could win a $US250,000 international award – believes so. Twenty-eight-year-old Nashin Mahtani’s website, PetaBencana.id, uses artificial intelligence and internet bots to monitor posts on social media by communities hit […]