Common Alerting Protocol Standard and Operating Procedures

Nuwan WaidyanathaDirector - Sahana Software Foundation

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CAP on a Map Kickoff Workshop – Improving Institutional Responsiveness to Coastal Hazards through Multi Agency Situational Awareness

2015 April 15

Nasandura Palace Hote, Male, Maldives

□Why do we need CAP

□What is CAP?

□How do we use it?■ CAP-Profile■ Register of Alerting

Authorities■ Multi agency situational

awareness

□Automation

□Pilots

□Users

□Conclusion□Resources

Outline

Letter from WMO on Enhanced Alerting Facilities

How is it done in your country?

Let's take 05 minutes to discuss

- what are the events (pick one)?- what are there jurisdictional boundaries?- who are the authorities responsible for detection,

decision, and dissemination?- who receives the alerts and who publishes them?- when do they publish and when do intended

recipients receive the alerts?

Typical vertical horizontal integration

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Railway FinancialCivil

affairs … …… …

National

Provincial/Regional

State/Regional

County/Town/Village

Land Earthquake Water Heath

Firefighting Meteorological TrafficDiploma

tic“Horizontal”Inf. Sharing

“Vertical”

A variety of means to public

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Management platformManagement platform

Collection

Collection

WebsiteWebsiteFeedback evaluation

systemFeedback evaluation

system

SMS release system

SMS release systemProcessProcess Transm

issionTransmission

StoreStore ControlControl

National Emergency

Early Warning & Alerting

System

□How do we manage the subscribers and publishers?

□How do we deliver early warnings in local language?

□How do we use available technologies?

□How do we disseminate alerts over multiple channels?

□How do we interoperate with incompatible systems?

□How do we effectively communicate the optimal content?

□How do we address the communication strategy?

□How do we accommodate upstream-downstream alerting?

Problem to solve in alerting/warning systems

ANSWER: CAP for all-hazards all-media and multi-agency alerting and situational awareness

Managed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

Recommended (X.1303) by the International Telecommunications Union Standardization Sector (ITU-T) – to align with ASN1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) ISO standards notation

Complies with the US National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) six principles of alerting, designed for :

• Coordination (avoid duplication)• Consistency (believable)• Channels (Multiple)• Completeness (unabiguity)• Coverage (Geo-targetting)• Control (security)

All-hazards displaying on all-media

TV SCROLLERSWEB ADSSPECIAL DEVICES

Any City / Province / Country

Radio

Television

Fax

Cell / SMS

SirensStorm

Earthquake

Fire

Tsunami

Volcano

u

CAP (XML) → uses XSL to transform→ delivery method

Automated Standard Message

“A <event> alert has been issued for <areaDesc> by <senderName>. Persons in this area are encouraged to <responseType>, and <instruction>. This event is rated as <severity>, and is <certainty>. Responsive action should be taken <urgency> . For more information about this event, visit <URI> or call <contact>.”

Example of Automated Standard Message

“A Flood alert has been issued for North Western Province by Department of Irrigation and Water Resources. Persons in this area are encouraged to prepare, and stay away from demarcated flood zones. This event is rated as moderate, and is likely. Responsive action should be taken in future. For more information about this event, visit http://www.ndmc.gov.lk/ or call 2395521.”

SAMBRO Screen Shots

EMAIL

Tweet

The Feedback Control with Social Media

Warning/AlertingBroker

SMS

Email

Self correcting feedback control

SHOW 1 MIN VIDEO

Exercise – SAMBRO message delivery

1) getting a feel for alerts in CAP format for the project focused coastal hazards (use the SimCAPTool)

INSTRUCTIONS:

- Form four groups and use the same example used in the discussion to now generate your alert message

- Access: http://cap.ituprojects.org

- Login with sd@gmail.com and 123

2) disseminate alerts in CAP format to the Restricted through multiple delivery modes for the chosen event

Resources

1) Video “Introduction to CAP”, Eliot Christian (WMO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0iKp60jjtY

2) Instructions for translating the video to local language: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2011/video.zip

3) Video on the use of CAP in real-time biosurveillance pilot, Nuwan Waidyanatha (LIRNEasia): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7WOq5giddI

4) CAP implementers workshop, WMO, Geneva, April 2011: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/WIS-CAP_Geneva2011/DocPlan.html

5) CAP Cookbook (wiki): http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Welcome_to_the_CAP_Cookbook

6) ITU-T recommendation X.1303: http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.1303/en

7) TD No. 1556, Administrative Procedure for Registering WMO Alerting Identifiers (PWS-20): http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/documents/AIR_PWS-20.pdf

8) OASIS EDXL suite of standards (including CAP): http://www.oasis-open.org/standards#edxl

Thank You

Nuwan WaidyanathaNuwan [AT] sahanafoundation [DOT] org

www.sahanafoundation.org