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About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More

About SocialMediaDNA

SocialMediaDNA is about sharing knowledge on social media and law enforcement. Topics vary from online components in public order, criminal investigations, intelligence, prosecution to emergency management and communications. More
 

The Crisis Communication Game: Better use of crisis information in the modern age of social media

By Arnout de Vries on August 6, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: communication, crisis, game
During a recent asbestos incident in a large municipality in the Netherlands, both the municipality and the housing corporation in question communicated with the residents. They forgot to harmonise their messages with each other. The result: residents who didn?t know what to do. That led to unnecessary risks, as well as worry and anger among the residents. There is a better way. In the FloodControl 2015 program TNO researched [...]
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Public safety and security: transformed permanently by social media

By Arnout de Vries on August 6, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: change, disruption, game changer, IFV, NGB, TNO, transformation, vdmmp
Social media developments are moving so rapidly that public safety and security?is being transformed permanently. These information channels and communications platforms have become indispensable and have a huge impact on organisations, work processes and employees. ?It is essential that this is mastered as preparation for what security organisations can expect in the near future”, states Arnout de Vries. A new manual offers support. ?A lot of information can [...]
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App: VizSAFE

By Arnout de Vries on August 5, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, community, emergency, safety, security, VizSAFE
VizSAFE?is a social media platform that empowers ordinary citizens to play an active role in the well being of their communities by posting and sharing photos or videos from their smartphones. Today, with close to 2 billion smartphones in use worldwide, people are capturing compelling and valuable content in their communities. VizSAFE aggregates, maps and shares this content instantly with members of your community and first responders. VizSAFE [...]
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Improving government services with Big Data

By Arnout de Vries on August 5, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: analytics, big data, citizen, crm, government, management, mining, monitoring, municipal, omnichannel, Police, predictive, profiling, relationship, semantic, social media, web
The topic Big Data is ‘hot’. Big Data can be used to make information more transparent and usable, to support decision making, and product and service innovations. In addition, we currently find ourselves in the middle of a process in which a new balance is sought between a government that strengthens and supports citizens through Big Data, and forthcoming social boundaries. In this study six existing Big Data concepts [...]
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Children receive sexual advances regularly

By Arnout de Vries on August 5, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: grooming, harasssment, online, revenge porn, sexting, sexual, social media
“During a research project for one of our clients, we logged onto Habbo-hotel. To our amazement we were approached quickly and various times with sexually-loaded comments that left little to the imagination. It is shocking. And disturbing. Particularly as this social platform focuses on children. A danger of grooming is hidden here.” Children are exposed to digital grooming and other undesirable behaviour online The sexually-loaded comments that Carlijn Broekman [...]
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App: Eye Witness reports

By Arnout de Vries on August 4, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: eye witness, grant, Police, Wales
The Welsh Police will receive a ‘whopping’ ? 837,000 pounds to build an app that?will support eye witness reports. The money comes from the British governmental innovation fund. Remarkably, the app will only support uploading audio and video at a crime scene for cops and not for citizens to use. In the modern day citizens can do this themselves (partly) with the Self Evident app. Still, better [...]
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App: SOS Shourya

By Arnout de Vries on August 1, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: alarm, app, india, Shaurya, Shourya, Shouryaa, SOS
Women and girls in Nainital, India, will now be able to alert the police and family members, in times of distress, thanks to a new app called SOS Shouryaa launched by finance minister Indira Hriydesh on Independence Day at the Nainital police office. The app, launched on the android platform, has been developed with the aim of keeping a check on the increasing number of cyber crime against women in [...]
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App: Watch Over Me

By Arnout de Vries on July 29, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: alarm, alert, app, emergency, notify, watch, Watch Over Me
  It?s not like you can ask your attacker to hold on a minute while you let someone know that you?re in danger. Watch Over Me?(iOS, Android) turns your device into emergency tool with just a shake. Even if your phone is locked, with one shake we turn on your phone?s alarm, and video camera, and send an alert to your emergency contacts. Like your very own [...]
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App: SPOTTM

By Arnout de Vries on July 29, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: app, south africa, SPOTTM
A new, free crowdsourcing mobile app, Spottm, which will let victims of crime request help from members of the community around them, will be introduced by a new South African start-up early next year. The app lets people alert police or family members during an emergency situation, and report service delivery issues. Members of the public, known as ?Spotters?, will be able to respond to victim reports and [...]
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App: Smart911

By Arnout de Vries on July 29, 2014 · Add Comment Tagged With: 911, app, emergency, smart911
The Paradise Valley Police Department is expected to provideParadise Valley Town Council an overview of how Smart911works and how it can be a new tool likely to significantly improve police response times. Smart911 lets you fill out personal information on a secure website and if you ever need to call 9-1-1, that information will be seen by the dispatcher so they can dispatch accordingly, according [...]
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