[emergency-adopt-events] RE: Draft Copy for Review...

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Jane,

If we can highlight the "FIRST ANNUAL" I think 
that is an important draw factor.

I like the rest of it very much, so I don't have 
any other specific comments.  Although I think we 
should eventually target volunteers, 
firefighters, EMS personnel, hospital 
administrators, and search and rescue responders, 
I think that this event is more targetted at 
decision and policy makers and influencers.

Cheers,
Rex

At 5:13 PM -0400 6/17/09, Jane Harnad wrote:
>Hello - I haven't received any comments from 
>anyone yet.  I'd like to have a final draft 
>ready to be reviewed by the other committees by 
>this Friday.  Please send comments before out 
>next call, if possible. Thank you, Jane
>
>
>
>From: Jane Harnad [mailto:jane.harnad@oasis-open.org]
>Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:37 PM
>To: 'emergency-adopt-events@lists.oasis-open.org'
>Subject: Draft Copy for Review...
>Importance: High
>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>Below is the promised draft announcement copy 
>for the upcoming event.  Please review and 
>forward any and all comments no later than COB 
>Monday.
>Thanks, Jane
>
>
>
>Emergency Interoperability Summit:
>"Coordinating Response Through Open Standards"
>
>29 & 30 September 2009
><http://xxxxx/>http://xxxxx
>
>This fall, OASIS will be launching the first 
>annual "Emergency Interoperability Summit". 
>This event, hosted at the NIST facility in 
>Gaithersburg, Maryland, will take place on the 
>29 & 30 of September 2009.  The Summit will 
>address the fractured market of Emergency 
>Management (EM) tools, the operational and 
>economic benefits of making them interoperable, 
>and a coherent framework to get there.  The 
>program will be designed to illustrate that 
>private industry, as well as public institutions 
>are offering a growing array of innovative tools 
>that are effective at handling specific aspects 
>of EM. From the responders perspective however, 
>the niche behavior of these tools and their 
>inability to communicate among each other, 
>limits their value in the broader EM context at 
>best, and can be counter productive at worst.
>
>At this event, industry experts will demonstrate 
>that there is much to be gained from their 
>interoperability, not only in terms of cost and 
>operational effectiveness for the EM community, 
>but also in terms of marketability and access to 
>a broader market for tool developers. To achieve 
>mutual connectivity, tools must adhere to agreed 
>upon rules about protocols and data formats, 
>with clearly defined semantics. To facilitate 
>wide scale interoperability, such rules must be 
>defined by independent bodies and must be 
>accessible publicly as open standards.
>
>Highlighted will be the work being done by 
>OASIS, as part of a coherent framework for EM 
>interoperability in an effort to incite members 
>from the world wide EM community, industry, 
>institutions and government agencies to join our 
>on-going standardization efforts.  This work 
>includes:
>
>l        the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an 
>Open Standard for Alert and Warning Messages in 
>any medium;
>l        the Emergency Data Exchange Language 
>(EDXL) Family, a set of Open Standards for 
>Emergency IT that provides an workable 
>interoperability framework through:
>?       a Distribution Element (EDXL-DE) 
>Specification that makes packaging and 
>distributing any kind of Digital Emergency 
>Communication Payload or set of payloads 
>possible in a uniform way;
>?       a Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) 
>Specification that provides the means for a 
>uniform method of arranging and accounting for 
>logistical operations that allows responders to 
>do their jobs while the resources are managed as 
>automatically as possible;
>?       a Hospital AVailability Exchange 
>(EDXL-HAVE) Specification that provides the 
>means for a uniform method of reporting a 
>snapshot of available healthcare facilities, 
>equipment and personnel during emergencies; and,
>?       work is underway on a Situation 
>Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Specification that will 
>provide the means for a uniform method of 
>reporting critical information for EM decision 
>making in the most timely way.
>
>It's an exciting time to join a new kind of 
>movement and community dedicated to continuously 
>improving Emergency Management throughout the 
>entire lifecycle of emergency incidents:
>l       from planning and preparations through
>l       response operations and
>l       remediation operations to
>l       after action analysis and evaluation leading to a new cycle of
>l       improved planning and preparations and so on.
>
>While we will never leave anyone behind, it's a 
>great time to join the community and start 
>making a difference.  OASIS and the Emergency 
>Management Member Section invites all levels of 
>government organizations internationally along 
>with emergency managers and those from the 
>vendor community šf to join us this fall at our 
>first annual Summit.  It is important for OASIS 
>to help bridge the gap between first responders, 
>government agencies and the vendor community. 
>This is a chance for all to see what is in 
>development and a chance for stakeholders to 
>express their actual needs. Come witness 
>real-world interoperability demonstrations and 
>listen to the experts on what interoperability 
>actual means to the public.
>
>
>
>Draft Audience List - by job titleŠ
>
>* disaster planning and preparedness managers
>* response coordinators
>* emergency communications managers
>* private industry contingency planners
>* contract services providers
>* national government officials
>* non-profit associations supporting emergency & standard activities
>* educational institutions, those within the emergency management field
>* researchers
>* civil preparedness officials
>Any others?   Maybe something reaching those in the international community?
>
>
>Not sure aboutŠ
>****volunteers, firefighters, EMS personnel, hospital administrators, etc...
>****medical facility administrators
>****law enforcement officials
>****search and rescue responders
>****Congressional staffers and federal officials 
>with a role in homeland security and emergency 
>management
>
>Government agencies to involveŠ
>
>DHS
>NIST
>DOD
>WMO
>NOAA
>****Need to incorporate international government agenciesŠ
>
>


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