E2mC aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of the integration of social media analysis and crowdsourcing within the full Copernicus EMS (Mapping and Early Warning) and at developing a) a prototype of the innovative Copernicus Witness, a new EMS Service Component conceived to exploit social media analysis and crowdsourcing capabilities oriented to improved information management for emergency responders and b) a prototype of the Social Crisis Map, a new Product type of the EMS Portfolio. The technological enabler of Copernicus Witness is the innovative and scalable Social&Crowd (S&C) Platform, developed by E2mC.
The ultimate purpose of the new Copernicus Witness is to improve the geo-information for Civil Protection, on a 24/7 basis, by increasing its quantity (additional data), its quality (live maps combined with social multimedia contents) and its timeliness (first crisis map available within few hours). This will result in early confirmation of alerts from Early Warning Systems and in first rapid impact assessment from the field.