This is an idea for a Steemian powered, global event / news notification system. Notifications (Steemit posts) could be relevant locally or globally and used for information, generate/co-ordinate some kind of response or act as a live communications channel.
Here are some examples of events at the local or global level;
Missing person, road traffic incident, weather disruption, utilities failure, public information message, industrial accident, environmental issue, act of war, natural catastrophe.
Event notifications would be most useful if they followed a similar format;
SWEN message
Type of event - Chemical Spill
Location - UK, Bristol - Harbour
Time of event - 14:00 GMT
Status - Active
Latest information - (Scale, disposition of those affected, mitigation efforts underway and support requirements)
Evidence - video / photos / witness statements
Post Author Background - Bristol resident, yacht owner - witnessed the whole thing (especially when author has low reputation)
It might also be sensible to standardise the tags;
swen uk (country) Bristol (region) d17052017 (occurance date)
The purpose of all this would be to bring new utility and purpose to the Steem blockchain and perhaps give people all over the world a practical and valuable reason to use Steemit.
It could provide the beginnings of a new Steemian grassroots global news platform tied to reputation within Steemit and also a new disaster support and relief network.
What could be better than using Steemit to help people in trouble?
I appreciate that keeping people consistent with the SWEN messages might be tricky, but if Steemians start using it with what we have, eventually we will have a dedicated news sourcing app, event alert and support system.
We could do this now! I will submit an example SWEN shortly.
I would love to know your thoughts, improvements or problems with the idea!
Happy Steeming
