Australian Emergency Alerting Standards

Anthony Baxter from Google Crisis Response is speaking at Creative Commons for You, and for Government, National Library of Australia in Canberra. He talked about the origins of Google's work with emergencies and new work. Essentially what Google does is provide a way to knit together disparate sources of official and other information in an emergency and make it widely available. He pointed out that having an open access license on emergency information it makes it easier to distribute it widely.

Anthony recommended the Australasian All-Hazards Symbology Project and Common Alerting Protocol, CAP Australian Profile (undergoing formal approval by OASIS). The All Hazards symbols are avialable in theAll Hazards Symbology Project Resources Kit (8Mbytes Zip file).


Anthony will also be speaking at GovCampNSW, in Sydney 19 November 2011. Perhaps he may have something to say about the Effectiveness of the Australian Emergency Alert System.

Google Crisis Response

Google Crisis Response has an interesting collection of uses of Google's products to help prepare for and respond to a disaster. For the 2011 Turkey Earthquake, Google have a Turkish language (and English) implementation of their Person Finder. There is also a using the Create an Emergency Plan template using a Google Docs template, based on the US Government's Ready.gov web site.

ps: in 2008 I visited the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, which provides earthquake monitoring for the Turkish Government. A few days later I experienced a small earthquake myself.

Google Crisis Response in Canberra Friday

Anthony Baxter from Google Crisis Response will be speaking at Creative Commons for You, and for Government, National Library of Australia in Canberra Friday, 4 November 2011. He will also be speaking at GovCampNSW, in Sydney 19 November 2011. Perhaps he may have something to say about the Effectiveness of the Australian Emergency Alert System.