A team of researchers is hopeful in the potential for ordinary citizens to play a part in flood detection and share their knowledge through geosocial intelligence by crowdsourcing flood-related tweets sent from within the Jakarta area, reports the Jakarta Globe. The article quotes Dr. Etienne Turpin, an urban theorist based at the University of Wollongong in Australia, as saying, “If human beings want to continue to live in Jakarta, they are going to need to adapt climate change. This is not just sea level rise, but also erratic, extreme weather and more intense precipitation. No one is coming to fix these climate problems. We have to adapt to avoid fatal consequences.”
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