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Katastropen- und Krisenmanagement

  • USA: Smartphones: The Next-Generation Emergency Alert System

    Modernizing America's alert notification apparatus is imperative and can be done by leveraging mobile platforms and smartphone technologies to more effectively disseminate crucial, actionable information to civilians in crisis situations.

    Integrating alert notifications across dynamic smartphones and other mobile platforms can be achieved to ensure that an updated system leverages smartphones and geo-location features of mobile systems while also being extremely resilient and optimized for fluid and ever-changing operational environments.

  • USA: Telecom infrastructure is weak link in disasters

    A recent Federal Communications Commission meeting with two telecommunication providers related to Hurricane Katrina outages revealed that physical infrastructure remains an Achilles’ heel for networks in disaster situations.

    During the hurricane, getting enough power was a major issue for the Gulf Coast telecom providers, as was keeping the basic infrastructure running and providing physical security for workers and equipment.

  • USA: Texas: Wichita County gets mobile command post/communications unit

    When the trailer arrived, it was practically ready for camping, complete with bunk beds and other amenities.

    The beds are gone now, and the trailer is set up to be ready for anything, from a wildfire to a flood to the aftermath of a tornado to the heart of a criminal scene.

    Wichita County Emergency Management Coordinator Lee Bourgoin pointed to radar and mapping images on a computer screen — images that can also appear on any of the three TV screens in the unit — and demonstrated how they can help emergency officials know what’s happening when every second counts.

  • USA: The secret is out: DHS launches state-local network

    The Homeland Security Department is deploying a new “secret” data network to pass classified information to hundreds of state and local officials, DHS officers said at a congressional hearing today.

    The Homeland Security Information Network-Secret (HSIN-Secret) is an “immediate, inexpensive and temporary approach to reach state and local homeland security and law enforcement sites that can receive secret-level information,” Matthew Broderick, director of the Homeland Security Operations Center, said in testimony today to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment.

  • USA: Velazquez questions readiness of SBA’s disaster management system

    The Small Business Administration’s new centralized disaster management system may not be in a position to provide efficient relief for small businesses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, according to Rep. Nydia Velazquez (R-N.Y.)

    Velazquez, the ranking member of the House Small Business Committee, said earlier this week in a letter to President Bush that, because of recent changes at SBA’s Office of Disaster Assistance, she is unsure whether its workforce is ready to process the expected onslaught of loan applications from Katrina-damaged businesses.

  • VHF/UHF spectrum for APCO-P25 emergency comms in New Zealand

    New Zealand is allocating VHF and UHF spectrum for Public Protection and Disaster Relief. They will use the APCO-P25 international standard for digital radiocommunications.

    The announcement on the New Zealand Radio Spectrum Management website says:

    Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe and Police Minister Annette King today announced the allocation of VHF and UHF spectrum for the exclusive use of agencies with responsibility for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR). This allocation affects such agencies as the police, border control and civil defence.

  • ZA: Public sector, risk management

    The South African public sector industry is transforming at a rapid rate and this increases the exposure to elements of risks and opportunities that may impair/promote the achievement its objectives.

    Risk management is the focus of reducing, minimising and controlling the probability and input of a negative occurrence; and/or increasing the probability and impact of a positive occurrence.

    There are various methods of risk management - some of these methods include the same practice approaches, concepts and tools used in a classic risk management process.

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