Showing posts with label bushfire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bushfire. Show all posts
Saturday, March 07, 2020

Making Sense of Tragedy Through Art

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Sydney Art Exchange  Have a Mask  23 January 2020 Arriving at Articulate project space , in Leichhardt Sydney yesterday for ELECTIVE AF...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Review of Australian Fire Alert System

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In " Analysis: Fire alert system overhaul could boost awareness " Andrew O'Connor \ (ABC, 16 January 2016), wrote that curre...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Time for Simplified Standardized Emergency Warnings

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A media report indicates that the Victorian Government is to review online fire warnings and rebuild the FireReady app (" The CFA app ...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

Victorian Country Fire Authority Website Problems Were Foreseeable and Preventable

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Media reports indicate that the Victorian Country Fire Authority experienced problems recently with its website due to excess demand. I tes...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Government Report Recommends NBN Use in Emergencies

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The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, released the 2011-12 Regional Telecommunicati...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Final Report

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The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Final Report was released today. It happens that I was at the APCOA conference on emergency ...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Problems with ACT Emergency Services Agency web site

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In response to my posting about accessibility problems with the Victorian Government Country Fire Authority Web Site , a commenter has note...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Cautionary Tales of Inaccessibility Not Learned by Victorian Government

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The W3C Web Accessibility Initiativ e (W3C WAI)has released a set of " Cautionary Tales of Inaccessibility " to help promote goo...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Emergency Communications Conference Call for Papers

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APCO Australasia have issued a call for papers for their 2010 conference on emergency communications , 14 – 17 March 2010 in Melbourne. Th...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

National Emergency Alert system from next week

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The Victorian Premier has announced that the National Emergency Alert system had been tested and will be ready for use next week. Unfortuna...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Lack of Australian emergency warning standard risks lives

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For this bushfire season a new Australian National Emergency Warning System has been introduced. Unfortunately there appears to be no stand...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Victorian Government asking for mobile phone bushfire system

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The Victorian Government has issued a Request for Information (RFI) for " Location Based Identification of Active Mobile Handsets for E...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Concrete prefabricated modules for bushfire homes

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Concrete prefabricated modules for replacing homes destroyed by bushfire feature in Architecture Australia magazine (July August 2009). Th...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report

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The 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission Interim Report was released today. The recommendations relating to the use of ICT, the Intern...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Victorian Internet Bushfire Warnings

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A Proposed Interim Report of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission was presented by the Counsel Assisting on 2 July 2009. The draf...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Role of the web in bushfire warnings

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The 2009 Victorian Brushfires Royal Commission is addressing the issue of the role of the web in providing warning to the public. Professor...