Tag: Common Alerting Protocol
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Symbols in Alerting
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…
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Europe’s IES evaluates Sahana Eden CAP Broker for adoption
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…
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GCI and GSOC complement each other, the cycle continues …
Winter of 2011-2012, the GCI students developed the blue prints for a Common Alerting Protocol-enabled Sahana-Eden Alerting broker. Taking that as a basis, the summer of 2012 GSOC student: developed the key elements for a multi-language multi-episode (i.e. multiple <info> segments for issuing a sequence of alerts for the same event) CAP broker. The CAP…
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Sahana at ITU-D in Bangkok
The International Telecommunications Union – Disaster (ITU-D) division recruited me to introduce ways in which the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) interoperable emergency communication standard could be operationalized in the Asia Pacific region. The audience comprised member state delegates from their respective telecommunications regulatory authorities and their emergency operations centres (or disaster management centres). The workshop:…