In a recent article in Fierce GovernmentIT, CNP Vice President Scott Bates sat in on a panel hosted by CNP on social media's role in national resilience.
The rise of social media and mobile, networked citizens requires a new governmental attitude toward preparedness, said panelists and audience members during an Oct. 28 panel discussion at the Center for National Policy in Washington, D.C.
A Cold War model dominated by a "professional protector class...I-could-tell-you-but-I'll-have-to-kill-you kind of approach to national security" can no longer apply to the problem of ensuring national resiliency in the face of terrorist attacks or even natural disasters, said Scott Bates, the center's vice president for national security. Bates co-authored a recent report on social media's role in national resilience.
"Because of the revolution in social media, [people] expect an answer, and we're not happy to just roll with whatever recording we get on the telephone," Bates said, adding that official response has to also integrate with increasingly organized response from the public to disasters.
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