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8:30 - 9:00 | REGISTRATION IN THE LOBBY |
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9:00 - 10:45 | SESSION 2: EXPERIENCES WITH PUBLIC WARNINGS |
| Intergovernmental Organizations reporting on their experiences with public warnings, which could be used to better direct future standardization. |
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Session Chairman: James F. Devine, Senior Advisor for Science Applications, US Geological Survey
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Public Warning in Washington State
Don Miller, Telecommunications and Warning Systems Manager, Washington State
This presentation will review the disasters, hazards and emergencies faced by Washington State. It will address the status of CAP projects in Washington State and Warning Systems Inc. pilot project, including: CAP challenges in developing a distribution network and the compatibility issues with HazCollect and private vendor solutions.
ETSI EMTEL and insight into some Emergency Messaging Technologies
Ian Harris, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Consultant, Research In Motion
ETSI EMTEL is concerned with identifying a broad range of technical commercial and operational issues concerning Emergency Mobile Telecommunications. Broadly, it's objective is to provide analytical study material for various commercial / operational bodies (such as PSAPS - Public Safety Answering Points) and various technical bodies (such as 3GPP) whose responsibilities are for implementation. This presentation explains the work of ETSI EMTEL and looks at some of the possible technologies for Broadcasting National Emergency Messages.
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
Thomas Peter, UN/OCHA
UN/OCHA: Practical Experiences with the Tampere Convention
Tor Bothner, UN/OCHA
Efforts Toward a Global Tsunami Warning System
Peter Koltermann, Head, Tsunami Co-ordination Unit, Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
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9:00 - 18:00 | INTEROPERABILITY DEMONSTRATIONS |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
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11:15 - 12:15 | SESSION 3: BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER |
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Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are small informal groups gathering to discuss topics of common interest. These sessions will run in parallel with the demonstrations and may include:
- Effective Public Alerts and Warnings: Policy, Frequency, Effectiveness, National Security vs. Public Safety
- Weather, Earthquake, Public Safety, Tsunami, Traffic, Fire, Flood, Health
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| 12:15 - 13:40 | LUNCH BREAK |
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13:40 - 15:40 | SESSION 4: FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN SUPPORT OF PUBLIC WARNINGS |
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| Identify future developments related to public warning in light of new technologies and standards work.
Session Chair: Guy Weets, Unite Head, DG Information Society, European Commission
Session Presenters:
Review of the European Commission's Activities for Emergency Management
Guy Weets, Unite Head, DG Information Society, European Commission
National ICT Australia (NICTA): Getting the Message Across - Sharing Warnings
Renato Ianella, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
The standardisation of Warning Messages, such as CAP and EDXL, is moving the sector in the right direction. The benefits of machine-readable Warning Messages are clear and obvious for information integration with other sources, decision making, automated translation, easy dissemination, and in building a picture for situational awareness during a crisis. This presentation will review and discuss these issues and propose ways forward for the
community to move towards these stated benefits. Further promotion is required across the all-hazards sector, such as the proposed Tsunami
Warning Markup Language (TWML). The strategic benefits of sharing warnings are clear, but effort is also required at the operational
stakeholder level to ensure the semantic understanding and decision behaviours of the messages are well known and produce consistent
outcomes.
Further Developments in Support of Public Warnings
Tony Rutkowski, Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs and Standards, VeriSign, Inc.
The increasing nomadicity of users in an IP-enabled NGN world makes global standards work ever more important, as well as provides a large market for new technology investment in the public network infrastructure. The developments include those in network intelligent infrastructure to assure the right warning messages get to the right people irrespective of their location, but also application level protocols such as the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) that allow for a diverse and extensible array of multimedia messages. Ongoing standards work in ITU-T and OASIS provide the enabling means for these capabilities.
Experience with Wide Area CAP Warning Systems
Efraim Petel, President, Hoermann Gmbh
After a few CAP systems of various levels were put in operation, a few lessons were learned indicating implementation difficulties of the CAP
approach.
- Industrial system (plant warning system) rarely goes into vacuum - some components already exist, and having a new system installed can be
successful only when the some sensitive issues are answered.
- Public Warning System for a county or a state requires a lot of acceptance be all the stakeholders. Not all of them are exposed to the new
standard and cannot immediately understand its benefits for them. Each stakeholder perceives warning differently, and if the CAP system does not
answer the need immediately, the implementation will be more difficult and slow.
- No one supplier can provide all components of warning system, and when a customer asks "does your system support CAP?" the answer is always yes. But how true the answer is, and how much of the "CAP Compliance" is artificial and how to detect a genuine CAP support?
Experience gained from installing a few CAP systems in various levels will be shared in this presentation.
Overview and Activities of RSOE Havaria Information Service
Zsolt Böszörményi, Head of Havaria Information Service, National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) and Róbert Rafael, Deputy Secretary-General, National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE)
In our presentation we will focus on the following topics:
- RSOE HISTORY
- RSOE INTRODUCTION
- RIVER INFORMATION SERVICES
- RSOE HAVARIA INFORMATION SERVICE
In the presentation we will give a short overview of the Association with a list of activities in information and emergency call systems. RSOE
activities in the field of development of River Information Services according to the 2005/44/EC RIS Directive and Hungarian regulations.
This will be followed by a more detailed introduction of the RSOE Havaria Information Service featuring the objectives of the Service and
- Data received and processed
- Monitoring activities
- AlertMaps
- Monitors (flu, flood etc.)
- Knowledge Centre (databases, disaster scales)
- AlertMail
- RSS/XML
- Common Alerting Protocol
The Havaria Information Service website operated together by the General-Directorate of National Disaster Management (OKF) and RSOE, in
co-operation with the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provides useful information regarding emergency situations and
their prevention. RSOE HAVARIA also contributes in dissemination of the CAP protocol in Hungary, such as the introduction of the CAP-based emergency
communication between OKF and the National Weather Services in Hungary.
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| 15:40 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:00 - 17:00 | CLOSING: WHAT'S NEXT? PANEL ON ADVANCING ICT STANDARDISATION FOR PUBLIC WARINGS |
Identify future developments related to public warning in light of new technologies and standards work.
Session Chairman: Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS
Closing Panel Speakers:
• Session 1A — Elysa Jones, Warning Systems, Inc. and Art Botterell, Contra Costa County, California
• Session 1B — Eliot Christian, US Geological Survey
• Session 2 — Jim Devine, US Geological Survey
• Session 3 — Renato Iannella, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
• Session 4 — Guy Weets, DG Information Society
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