From gaming hordes to disaster response team

摘要

SLAY a monster, save a life. Playing your favourite game could help disaster relief efforts. Online game World of Warcraft has 8 million players at any one time. Patrick Meier and his colleague Peter Mosur, who both co-founded the Internet Response League (IRL), want to tap into this resource to comb through the masses of digital information that accumulates during a real-world disaster.