Developing Plugins for CAP Disaster Alerts

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[edit] Developing Plugins for CAP Disaster Alerts Problem Definition

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[edit] Description

Allow emergency messages related to disasters (evacuations for hurricanes, tsunamis, all the way to weather alerts) to appear on a browser or mobile phone similar to the Emergency Broadcast System for US Television.

[edit] Background

Many natural disasters give adequate forewarning. Two such examples are hurricanes and tsunamis. Recently, after the Chilean earthquake, there was a tsunami warning for the US State of Hawaii giving people an 8 hour evacuation window. Google decided to run a home page promotion on Google.com specific to Hawaii IP addresses to of the incoming tsunami. In addition, all TV stations in Hawaii alerted their viewers of the impending tsunami.

This Internet is slowly replacing TVs and other entertainment devices. It is key to get messages related to evacuations and alerts in front of users. The browser and mobile devices are great avenues to preform this task.

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[edit] Related work

[edit] Comments

[edit] --Gavintreadgold 03:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

  • Here is a blog post from 2009 that I wrote about this idea - Firefox Browser CAP Alerting Plugin
  • We had a successful prototype developed by one of our 2009 Google Summer of Code projects for the Sahana Software Foundation - see Sahana CAP Firefox Plugin
  • As part of this project we also developed a CAP aggregator within Sahana - Sahana CAP Aggregator
  • Sahana Agasti already has an Alerting and Messaging module that is capable of producing CAP alerts as well.
  • This should probably be merged with the Browser Alerts idea.
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