Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 8th) is the deadline for signing up for a FEMA/FCC-sponsored workshop on the myriad of things working toward a more modern national alerting system. They'll talk about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), the coming national cell alerting program, a new digitized Emergency Alert System (EAS), and of course, the ever-popular Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
Emergency managers and other public safety officials should be interested. The workshop will be held in DC Thursday, June 10th. (You can register at here.) If you can't be there, you can listen in by going to another FCC web site. (No registration necessary for just listening.) Or, you can learn more about the workshop, and the initiative as a whole, through a blog post by Lisa Fowlkes, Deputy Bureau Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC.
A couple of panel sessions will be held:
- The Path to Next Generation Alerting
- Leveraging Broadband to Truly Effect Public Alerting and Warning
Both, rather interesting topics.
There's a lot going on in the arena of notifications and alerts, perhaps more than many people realize. This would be a good way to help get up to speed.
All the best,
Rick
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Emergency managers and other public safety officials should be interested. The workshop will be held in DC Thursday, June 10th. (You can register at here.) If you can't be there, you can listen in by going to another FCC web site. (No registration necessary for just listening.) Or, you can learn more about the workshop, and the initiative as a whole, through a blog post by Lisa Fowlkes, Deputy Bureau Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC.
A couple of panel sessions will be held:
- The Path to Next Generation Alerting
- Leveraging Broadband to Truly Effect Public Alerting and Warning
Both, rather interesting topics.
There's a lot going on in the arena of notifications and alerts, perhaps more than many people realize. This would be a good way to help get up to speed.
All the best,
Rick
