Social media and climate-related disaster management in Africa: A force-field analysis

Driving forces such as the steady Internet access and penetration in Africa, fast-growing social media penetration and adoption of mobile technology, Africa having four of the top 10 countries that spend the most time on social media globally, growing investments in Internet infrastructure and communalistic nature of African societies, among others, are pointers of Africa's readiness to mainstream social media technologies in climate change-related disaster management.