WMO, ITU, and OASIS to host CAP public warning workshop in Geneva, 9-10 December 2008

Dear StC,
Please distribute this announcement to the various EM lists that you are on.
Please send me any recommendations you may have for achieving broad
distribution.
This will be great for the visibility of CAP. Do any of you plan to attend?

Dr. Carol,
Do you think the eGov MS would be interested? I am also sending this to the
Telecom MS.
Thanks,
dee

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Dee Schur, Manager of Member Support
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x211
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Subject: [emergency-sc] WMO, ITU, and OASIS to host CAP public warning
workshop in Geneva, 9-10 December 2008

OASIS is pleased to announce the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

Implementers
Workshop, 9 – 10 December 2008, Geneva.

The workshop is jointly organized by the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the Organization for
the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).  The Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP), an OASIS Standard adopted as ITU Recommendation
X.1303, has become the foundational standard for all-media public warning.
Designed as an all-hazards alert format, CAP is envisioned to be implemented
worldwide for earthquakes, public health, and many other emergencies, in
addition to weather events. This Workshop will provide a forum for
implementers of CAP and associated international organizations to discuss
coordination on key issues, together with the private sector engaged in
emergency management and warning systems. All interested parties are invited
to participate in this high-level, open event — please feel free to
distribute this announcement to your colleagues involved in emergency
management.

For more information, please see,
http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cap-workshop/2008.

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Dee Schur, Manager of Member Support
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society
http://www.oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x211