Facebook has developed «disaster maps» to facilitate its work of humanitarian organizations in places where there has been a natural catastrophe.The social network wants to make its information available to these groups to identify most affected areas, depending on the activity of its users.With this service, Facebook intends to cover the usual failures of traditional communication channels that occur in the first minutes after disasters.Thanks to the «disaster map» resources such as water, food or medical supplies can be identified, that are essential when a catastrophe occurs, according to the social network. Organizations that have collaborated with Facebook for the implementation This service has been UNICEF, the International Federation of the Red Cross, the Red Crescent or the World Food Program , among others.All of them have participated in the development of this new function by selecting the data that will be most useful and fixing how these will be used once the disa...
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