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A GeoSocial Intelligence Framework for Studying & Promoting Resilience to Seasonal Flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia
PetaJakarta.org is a web-based platform developed to harness the power of social media to gather, sort, and
display information about flooding for Jakarta residents in real time. The platform runs on the open source software
CogniCityâan OSS platform developed by the SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongongâwhich
allows data to be collected and disseminated by community members through their location-enabled mobile
devices. The project uses a GeoSocial Intelligence Framework to approach the complexity of Jakartaâs entangled
hydraulic, hydrological and meteorological systems and thereby converts the noise of social media into knowledge
about urban infrastructure and situational conditions related to flooding and inundation.
In this paper, PetaJakarta.org co-directors Dr Tomas Holderness, Geomatics Research Fellow at the SMART
Infrastructure Facility, Dr Etienne Turpin, Vice-Chancellorâs Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure
Facility, and Dr Rohan Wickramasuriyam, GIS Research Fellow at the SMART Infrastructure Facility, will discuss
their GeoSocial Intelligence Framework as it applies to their current research in Jakarta. They will also present their
preliminary findings from their 2014 Twitter #DataGrant, which has allowed them to develop a correlative analysis
between historic social media information, the Jakarta governmentâs flood maps, and the infrastructure used to
manage critical flood emergencies. Finally, they will speculate on several future applications of the CogniCity OSS
and suggest how it might be developed to further promote an integrated civic co-management platform with the
support of business, industry, government and community organizations
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