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Tag: CAP

  • Symbols in Alerting

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Often people are misconstrued by alert messages and act inappropriately because they have not fully understood the message; especially, when they are short-text messages with partial information. There are many challenges with cognition, or understanding, of public warning messages. UNESCO estimates, on average, 30% of South/West Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans to be illiterate. Those countries…

  • Europe’s IES evaluates Sahana Eden CAP Broker for adoption

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Recently, in Geneva, I met Massimo Cristaldi (CTO  Intelligence for Environment & Security – IES –  Solutions) at the CAP Implementation Workshop (23-25 April 2013). He mentioned, during a tea-break chat, that they evaluated the Sahana-Eden CAP Broker for possible adoption. Given that the Sahana-Eden CAP Broker was not fully developed, they default to building…