AID POLICY: Hitching social media to humanitarian assistance

AID POLICY: Hitching social media to humanitarian assistance:

NAIROBI, 17 July 2012 (IRIN) - From Tweets in Egypt to blogs in Syria and Facebook campaigns in Sudan, the world has witnessed an unprecedented upsurge in citizen journalism, which played a major part in the 2011 "Arab Spring", a series of revolutions that saw long-term leaders in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen deposed. But citizen journalists say social media's impact is not limited to political rabble-rousing and that it can also be a useful tool in humanitarian emergencies.