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- Lock IT Down: Live by the Boy Scout motto
- At the height of the massive blackout that rolled across the northeast last August, CBS News reported that 80% of New York State lost power. Yet, incredibly, at the onset, not a single customer of Con Edison Communication, the subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Company that provides data and voice transport...
- Technical articles 2004-01-27
- The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Support Homeland Security: Recommendations for Emergency Management and Bioterrorism Response in Nebraska
- Emergency management combines planning, preparation, and the optimum resources to mitigate and respond to an event. Good emergency management requires information that is accurate, current, timely, and quickly analyzed. This article shows how GIS technology provides the tools for displaying and analyzing spatial data in order to answer questions based...
- White papers 2002-11-09
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- The Challenges of Emergency Management Planning in 2005
- Emergency management planning today faces many critical obstacles, such as an imbalance of focus between homeland security and natural disaster management, the challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning, the lack of an effective partnership with the business community, cuts to EM funding, and questions surrounding the evolving organizational...
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- Emergency Response System Formed to Ensure the Safety of Indian Citizens
- The Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. strongly felt the need for a state-of-the-art emergency response system that could help citizens in a timely fashion and save millions of lives. The Emergency Management and Research Institute EMRI was formed by the Raju brothers as a not-for-profit entity with a view...
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- Getting the Message Out in an Emergency: The Harvard University Emergency Notification System
- On 9/11, cell phones and other communication systems were greatly impaired in New York City. Telephones systems were overloaded and it was virtually impossible to effectively exchange information with or among employees and emergency responders. At Harvard University, senior management recognized the need for stronger emergency communications systems at the...
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- Enabling a Quick and Comprehensive Emergency Response
- India's non-profit Emergency Management and Research Institute EMRI has launched the country's first 'Call 108' emergency services contact system, powered by solutions from Nortel. The company wanted to enable a quick and comprehensive emergency response, a reliable technology solution that was scalable for growth and provided extra reliability in mission-critical...
- Case studies 2006-09-15
- Emergency Call Handling in VoIP Networks
- Effective handling of emergency calls is vital for all VoIP networks. Identifying emergency calls, prioritizing them and delivering them to the emergency operator is a key requirement. The protocols and procedures needed to enable this service exist and can be delivered today. Newport Networks 1460 session border controller supports prioritised...
- White papers 2006-04-04
- Reducing Cycle Time and Improving the Quality of Decision-making for IT Emergency Change Management through Communications Enabled Business Processes
- In this case study, Avaya describes how its own IT organization is improving productivity and relieving worker stress by automating a customer emergency resolution process. Avaya uses its Communications Enabled Business Processes CEBP to reduce human latency and improve the quality of decision making for its mission-critical IT emergency change...
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- The Emergency Alert System Fact Sheet
- The Emergency Alert System EAS is designed to provide the President with a means to address the American people in the event of a national emergency. Through the EAS, the President would have access to thousands of broadcast stations, cable systems and participating satellite programmers to transmit a message to...
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- Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services
- This paper discusses Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services. Emergency Management Services EMS is a feature of Windows 2003 Server that allows remote administration via the serial port. Normally, the best solution for remote server administration is Terminal Services (or a similar third-party add-in), but this kind of remote access...
- White papers 2006-10-12
- QUALCOMM Case Study: New York City Office of Emergency Management
- The New York City Office of Emergency Management OEM works to mitigate, and plan and prepare for emergencies; educate the public about preparedness; coordinate emergency response and recovery efforts; collect and disseminate critical information; and seek funding opportunities to support the overall preparedness of the City of New York. OEM's...
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- Getting the Most Out of GIS in an Emergency Operations Center: Support for GIS Operations Using a Situation Status Unit
- Although GIS has proven to be a valuable tool to local governments during major emergencies, it is often not fully leveraged. This paper will examine the reasons and explore steps to accomplish the goal of fully utilizing GIS during emergencies. Experience at the City of Seattle and the TopOff 2...
- White papers 2005-07-05
- New Emergency Management System Helps Ensure the Safety of Albertans
- TELUS Geomatics developed an Emergency Management System EMS to ensure the safety and security of the residents of Alberta, Canada. The EMS combines two applications, an Interactive Voice Response IVR system in Vancouver, and a hosted global information system called TELUS GeoExplorer. Because of the critical nature of the system,...
- Case studies 2005-12-29
- Homeland Security: Response - Tabletop Exercises
- After September 11, many colleges and universities realized that their emergency response plans needed either to be updated or expanded. Berklee College of Music, in downtown Boston, recognized these needs, and formed a Crisis Management Team involving the highest officials at the College. Concurrently, they revised a list of hazards...
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- National Response Plan (NRP)
- The National Response Plan establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents. The Plan incorporates best practices and procedures from incident management disciplines?homeland security, emergency management, law enforcement, firefighting, public works, public health, responder and recovery worker health and safety, emergency...
- White papers 2005-01-06
- The wonderful world of computer consulting
- blog rootWhat's an EMERGENCY to you!I got a call for an EMERGENCY support call. The client needed someone now, and he was 100 miles away. I rearranged my schedule and drove to his site.The client was complaining that icons and objects were missing and not displaying on the screen. When I...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-10
- Top Five Priorities Among CEOs
- The paper depicts about a survey, which reveals that Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA compliance headed the top five list of healthcare organizations' business concerns for the next two years. It is hard to imagine achieving even basic HIPAA compliance in a paper-based emergency department. Emergency nurses and...
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- A Project for the Synthesis of Composite TCP/IP Networks During Emergencies
- This paper describes a project being undertaken by National ICT Australia with a Safeguarding Australia theme. History shows that the pattern of use of communications during a large scale emergency to be quite different from those of normal times. The emergency recovery team needs a communication network with capabilities and...
- White papers 2006-03-22
- School Response (exe)
- School Response is a software program designed by experienced education professionals to help you to manage your emergency response and school documentation needs. Manage your emergency phone numbers, incident reports and school emergency plans in one convenient location. Print full color reports for analysis.
- Software downloads 2006-08-09
- An Update on NFPA 1600, Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs
- NFPA 1600, Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs, has gained considerable attention since first published as a standard in 2000. Since then the 9/11 Commission has endorsed it as The National Preparedness Standard. More recently, Congress emphasized the importance of private sector preparedness and NFPA 1600 within The...
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