SUMMARY 18 JULY 2022
Under the cooperation protocol concluded with ANEPC, VOST Portugal provided personalized access to the API of the FOGOS:EN to free up technological resources from ANEPC's systems. A solution has also been developed to automate the dissemination of public information on the most relevant occurrences.
In addition to the development of this solution, VOST Portugal has monitored social networks, and transmitted the most relevant information/images to ANEPC, via a direct channel that had already been established.
In the area of dissemination, VOST Portugal has used its social networks, in conjunction with the social networks of FOGOS.PT, to disseminate status reports, based on official sources.
In the area of cooperation between VOST, VOST Portugal has maintained constant contact with the various VOSTs in Spain, namely with VOST Galicia, due to cross-border fires.
Since July 5th, and to date (18 July 2022), VOST Portugal has issued 551 tweets that were viewed 3.01M has generated more than 587,000 visits to the profile, where the tweet highlighted is a message on how to share photos on social media, in the context of forest fires.
On July 12th VOST Portugal wrote a thread, based on the triptych of the project “Safe Villages, Safe People” which, after its publication, was also adapted by the traditional media.
Since the 13th, the FOGOS.PT website / app has information on the areas of interest, or burned area, based on data from the ICNF, FIRMS hot spots detected by NASA and reports collected on social networks, after their validation.
In addition to this information, POSIT (Situation Points) collected from official sources have been disseminated, whenever available.
On 14 July, VOST Portugal managed to put the theme “DRINKING WATER” in the first place of trending topics in Portugal, alerting to the need for hydration during these hottest days.
VOST Portugal will continue to monitor the situation (and at all times when justified) in order to provide better information to the affected populations, and to society in general, as well as to give all the support requested by the official authorities.
Additional Information
The technical person responsible for the development of technological solutions is Joao Pina (disambiguation) (Creator of FOGOS.PT and founder of VOSTPT ) and the management of the project is ensured by Jorge Gomes (National Coordinator of VOST Portugal).
The founders of VOST Portugal thank all their volunteers, many of them who have also been on the ground fighting fires, for their commitment and dedication in the last two weeks.
The infrastructure used by VOST Portugal and Fogos.pt is kindly provided by PT Server.
VOST Portugal has the support of Cloudflare, under the Galileo project
FOGOS.PT is sponsored by Lapa do Lobo Foundation and Mapbox.
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