PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale.
It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
PetaBencana.id is run and maintained by Yayasan Peta Bencana [Disaster Map Foundation].
How does it work?
Using AI-assisted, humanitarian chatbots, PetaBencana.id automatically responds to social media posts containing disaster-related keywords, asking users in disaster-affected areas to confirm their situation by submitting a disaster report.
Residents are guided through a few simple steps to submit a disaster report including: confirming their location, adding detail about the disaster severity (e.g. flood height), adding a photo, and description.
Reports are mapped in real-time on a free and open source website, PetaBencana.id. By integrating local knowledge from a variety of sources into a single, robust platform, PetaBencana.id is able to provide a comprehensive overview of disaster events, enabling residents, humanitarian agencies, and government agencies to make more informed decisions during emergencies.
First Reporters to First Responders
Since its debut in 2013 (as PetaJakarta.org), the PetaBencana.id platform has been used by millions of resident users to make time-critical decisions about safety and navigation during emergency disaster events; it has also been adopted by the National Emergency Management Agency (BNPB) to monitor disaster events, improve response times, and share time-critical emergency information with residents.
