Tag: Emergency Data Exchange Language
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Symbols in Alerts feed into Federation of Internet Alerting Standards
Almost one year ago, I had presented a concept on the use of “pictographs in alerting” and shared the evidence for the growing need for such an initiative. This was at the 2013 CAP Implementation Workshop in Geneva. The real need was to aid the linguistically challenged: tourist in a foreign country and illiterate. Moreover, it…
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SahanaCamp at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand
The Geoinformatics Center (GIC), attached to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) based in Thailand, invited the Sahana Software Foundation to conduct a 2 day SahanaCamp. The Sahana component of the awareness and capacity building workshop was part of a 3 week long course the Asian participants underwent at the AIT. The SahanaCamp took place…
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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…