Crime Fighting with Social Media

Chief Kariuki of Kenya will discuss how to use social media to improve security and Twitter as a tool for community policing. Chief Francis Kariuki shares success stories on how Twitter is used for community policing and activate people to participate on crime fighting. He explains how Twitter’s platform provides codes that can be converted into text message and that even the poorest of the poorest that has the cheapest phone is able to get the message in a form of a text message.

What you will learn:

– Stories and case studies how Twitter is used for community policing
– Crime prevention via Twitter codes
– How to activate citizen engagement through tweets

• Similar topics
• Africa
• citizen engagement
• social media