RE: [egov] Countermeasures for Epidemic of Congressional Ignorance?

["Peter F Brown" <peter@justbrown.net>]

Interesting thread: just been talking in Vienna today on exactly this sort
of use case with Edwin Bruce, head of eGov projects in the New Zealand
government. We both think that there are opportunities for collaboration in
such pilots: one only has to look at the recurrence of major seasonal
flooding in Central Europe in the last few years or the ever present
background threat of a major health pandemic, such as Avian flu...these are
all naturally cross-agency and cross-border phenomena and the ebXML
federated registry model coupled with some semantic interoperability
approach would indeed seem to fit the bill....

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] 
Sent: 19 September 2005 21:30
To: Duane Nickull; Rex Brooks; huml@lists.oasis-open.org;
emergency@lists.oasis-open.org; egov@lists.oasis-open.org;
sia-pilot6@humanml.cim3
Subject: RE: [egov] Countermeasures for Epidemic of Congressional Ignorance?

Thanks foor the reply, Duane,

The pilot project I'm working on now does some of this and is a Semantic
Interoperability Rachitecture Pilot as well as being SOA in a loosely
coupled way, and we plan to use ebXML REgistry/Repository as well as many
other components. It's far from any kind of panacea, but i think it will be
a small step in the right direction.

Regards,
Rex

At 12:20 PM -0700 9/19/05, Duane Nickull wrote:
>Rec:
>
>Sadly, in a previous company we proposed an architecture to the 
>Canadian Government (prior to being acquired by Adobe) for a low costs 
>system that would have helped alleviate some of the problems from this 
>type of emergency.
>
>While dwelling on the past is important to learn lessons, I also think 
>it is important to look forward and take action.  The proposed system 
>was  registry based and would allow government and civilian entities to 
>register the following via easy to use web forms:
>
>1. What types of events they wish to be notified about and when.
>Example: If there is a landslide in the Rocky Mountains that blocks a 
>public highway, notify me since I am a civilian trucking company and I 
>need to know this to reroute my trucks or "Tell me about potential 
>hurricanes 48 hours in advance since I have to collect and evacuate 
>elderly people".
>
>2. A list of anything they have that they would make available during 
>an emergency. Example: I have a diesel generator and 200 gallons of 
>fuel in my backyard
>
>3. Details of any services they are prepared to offer during an 
>emergency (example: I have a chainsaw and can help cut through fallen 
>trees.
>
>4. Details of how they can be contacted in an emergency including 
>backup plans in case no infrastructure exists (example: If the phones 
>are out, I will be at the corner of Haight & Ashbury.
>
>5. Workflows and procedures for emergency workers to take.
>
>The idea is that everyone who has a stake in a situation would have a 
>chance to play a role.  Agencies from local governments to 
>international relief workers could all use it.
>
>The architecture is public record since it was submitted to the GoC as 
>an RFI proposal.  Anyone interested in seeing it or making use of it 
>please let me know and I can forward it to them.
>
>I think systems like this would only cost around CAD $100,000 to 
>implement and probably minimal $$ to keep operational.  A bargain 
>compared to the chaos that can result when things go wrong.
>
>The architecture used the OASIS CAP and the ebXML Registry/Repository 
>standards along with other web service standards.
>
>Anyone want to build it?
>
>Duane
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]
>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:06 AM
>To: huml@lists.oasis-open.org; emergency@lists.oasis-open.org; 
>egov@lists.oasis-open.org; sia-pilot6@humanml.cim3
>Subject: [egov] Countermeasures for Epidemic of Congressional Ignorance?
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>Please excuse the inept and mangled metaphors, but I think I have a 
>concussion from being hit by this um, fiscal responsibility?
>
>I note this with considerable dismay since it looks a lot like we 
>suddenly discovered that we are hemorrhaging from a leg so we are going 
>to amputate our right arm as if we could somehow save the blood in that 
>arm or keep it from flowing out our gashed leg. Let's ignore how much 
>work that arm could do, for things like, well, tying a tourniquet 
>around the wound from which we are actually bleeding?
>
>http://fcw.com/article90814-09-16-05-Web&newsletter%3Dyes
>
>Better idea. Let's rescind the minimum wage and hire all those 
>displaced refugees, oops, no, they're called.... what was it? Ah yes, 
>evacuees. How much more civilized can you get? I never thought 
>ignorance was contagious till now.
>
>Rex
>--
>Rex Brooks
>President, CEO
>Starbourne Communications Design
>GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
>Berkeley, CA 94702
>Tel: 510-849-2309
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