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FEMA falls short on warning systems

Governments struggle to provide warning systems, as the number of channels increase, and their population fragments across them.  Radio / TV are still the most common channels for public warnings.

Amplify’d from fcw.com

FEMA falls short on warning systems, GAO says

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has made little progress in improving either of its largely information technology-based national public warning systems for disasters in the last two years, a senior official of the Government Accountability Office has told a House panel.

FEMA has been developing an IPAWs messaging architecture compatible with the Common Alerting Protocol Standard from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. FEMA also is doing testing, demonstration, training and geo-targeting of messages, Penn said and is developing a strategic plan.Read more at fcw.com
 

Emergency Managers Should Learn From Web 2.0 Responses to Wildfires and School Shootings

How should emergency managers use social media in disasters?

Amplify’d from www.govtech.com

Emergency Managers Should Learn From Web 2.0 Responses to Wildfires and School Shootings

We know a lot about how people react in disasters, and emergency managers can draw on that knowledge and background. For example, we know how people communicate in disasters, and we know how to build effective warning systems so failures are designed out. We know how to develop messages that most directly impact people so they will take protective action. And we know how to craft preparedness campaigns to help people prepare for disasters. But can we take what we know and apply it to the use of social media in disasters? To answer this, I draw from research on three cases: the Virginia Tech shooting, the Southern California wildfires of 2007, and the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Read more at www.govtech.com
 

SMS for Emergencies?

Amplify’d from www.emergencymgmt.com
SMS for Emergencies?
Is SMS text-messaging trustworthy for emergency purposes? Some say yes. Same say no. Perhaps ironically, falling on the “no” side of the debate is a major provider of SMS (Short Messaging Services), none other than AT&T.
Meantime, lessons learned for SMS for emergency purposes are developing. The first is that not all SMS is the same. Significant differences can exist between one SMS delivery vehicle and another.
Read more at www.emergencymgmt.com
 

Engaging the Public With Web 2.0 Will Benefit Public Safety Professionals

Survey of US law enforcement agencies highlights uptake of Web 2.0

Amplify’d from www.emergencymgmt.com
Engaging the Public With Web 2.0 Will Benefit Public Safety Professionals
More than 530 law enforcement professionals from 22 states and two U.S. territories participated in the survey — results can be found at www.GSRCPI.org — including more than 100 chiefs of police. According to the survey, law enforcement professionals use Web 2.0 applications very little or not at all. But 78 percent of responders said Web 2.0 training would be valuable to their agency.
The role of Web 2.0 in emergency response is not a theoretical possibility, but a reality. The blogging community played a big role in the 2008 Southern California wildfires, successfully arguing against Federal Emergency Management Agency and California emergency management officials about direction of the fires and evacuation plans. More recently, Twitter played a vital role during the presidential inauguration.Read more at www.emergencymgmt.com