CAP Workshops focus on emergency alerting, and people interested in emergency alerting are welcome to participate. This includes managers, technical staff, media, commercial organizations, governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). There is no workshop participation fees .
The hosts of the 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop are the Asian Institute of Technology and the Sahana Software Foundation.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
(Updated as of 19 August 2016)
Please note: The order of presentations in the main sequence (3.x) may change.
Time |
Event |
23 August 2014 (Tuesday) | |
09:00 – 09:30 | 1.1 Welcome from AIT (Surendra Shrestha) 1.2 Welcome from IFRC (Omar Abou-Samra) 1.3 Welcome from OASIS (Elysa Jones) 1.4 Welcome from Sahana Software Foundation (Devin Balkind) 1.5 Welcome from WMO (Samuel Muchemi) 2 Organization of the Workshop (Eliot Christian) |
09:30 – 10:30 | 3.1 Sahana CAP Implementations: Lessons Learned (Biplov Bhandari and Nuwan Waidyanatha) 3.2 GDPC Hazards App Progress Report (Omar Abou-Samra) |
10:30 – 10:35 | Group Photo |
10:35 – 11:00 | Break |
11:00 – 12:30 | 3.3 CAP Proposed for Mosul Dam Warning (Omar Abou-Samra) 3.4 OpenBroadcaster (Rob Hopkins) 3.5 Filtered Alert Hub (Eliot Christian) |
12:30 – 14:00 | Break |
14:00 – 15:30 | 3.6 CAP-abilities of Modern Weather Radar Networks (Andre Weipert) 3.7 Experience of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (Atiq Ahmed) 3.8 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) in WMO (Samuel Muchemi) |
15:30 – 16:00 | Break |
16:00 – 18:00 | 3.9 WHO and Warning for Biological/Infectious Disease Hazards (Christopher Haskew). 3.10 Questions of specific CAP usage (Elysa Jones) 3.11 Update from OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee (Elysa Jones) 3.12 Pictographs in Alerting: Survey Session (Nuwan Waidyanatha) |
24 August 2016 (Wednesday) | |
09:00 – 10:30 | 3.13 CAP Implementation in Australia (Simon Moffat) 3.14 MeteoAlarm and CAP (Guido Schratzer) 3.15 CAP Implementation in Taiwan (Betty Kuo) |
10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
11:00 – 12:30 | 3.16 MASA and SAMBRO in the Maldives (Ibrahim Humaid and Umar Fikry) 3.17 MASA and SAMBRO in Myanmar (Tun Lyn Kiaw) 3.18 MASA and SAMBRO in the Philippines (Resly George Amador) |
12:30 – 14:00 | Break |
14:00 – 16:00 | 3.19 CAP in Tanzania (Victor Massam) 3.20 CAP and the National Disaster Warning Center of Thailand (tbd) 3.21 CAP Implementation in Thai Meteorological Department (Kesaraporn Techapichetvanich) 3.22 Emergency Alerting in Canada (Lawrence Sham) |
16:00 – 16:30 | Break |
16:30 – 18:30 | 3.23 CAP for Emergency Management in Italy and Europe (Marcello Marzoli) 3.24 CAP in Mexico (Mario Ruiz) 3.25 United States Federal CAP (Scott Shoup) 3.26 Survey of Other CAP Implementations (Eliot Christian) 4. Process for Producing a Summary Report, Offers to Host the Next CAP Implementation Workshop, Closure of the Workshop (Eliot Christian) |
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