EPAM&Linktera4Good - Social Listening for Support Services in case of Disasters like Earthquakes

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Team Name	EPAM&Linktera4Good
Track	Public Sector
Use Case	We want to show how social media could be used to optimize logistics and delivery of critical support services (search and rescue / medical etc) during the first days of a natural disaster. The recent earth quake in Turkey demonstrated just how difficult it can be to identify and locate people who need help and to get the right resources there
Technology	VIYA, Open Source
Region	EMEA
Team lead	James Swinnerton @jswinnerton1
Team members	Basak Yuzbasioglu @basak_yuzbasi  Guney Guzelkara @GuneyG  Cem Zaimoglu Can Tosun  Leonardo Iheme Muhlis Buluş Elif Eylül Ersuz
Social media handles	James Swinnerton Basak Yuzbasioglu Guney Guzelkara Cem Zaimoglu Can Tosun Lenardo Iheme Muhlis Buluş  Elif Eylül Ersuz
Is your team interested in participating in an interview?	N
Optional: Expand on your technology expertise	EPAM and Linktera combining forces to use data for good

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[LGroves]

Great use-case and presentation.  Well done, @jswinnerton1  and Team!