[CAP] Homeland Hearing this week

[Billy Pitts]

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 10am
311 Cannon House Office Building

b
Advancing Public Alert and Warning Systems to Build a More  
Resilient Nationb


B7 Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response

Witnesses: Major General Martha Rainville (Ret.), Assistant  
Administrator, National Continuity Programs, Federal Emergency  
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Derek Poarch,  
Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Federal  
Communications Commission; Mr. Randall C. Duncan MPA, CEM, Director,  
Sedgwick County Emergency Management, Sedgwick County, Kansas; Mr.  
John R. Gibb, Director, New York State Emergency Management

There will be a webcast of this hearing



On May 8, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Art Botterell wrote:

> Thanks, David.  Yes, I agree on personalization, although from an  
> operator's viewpoint I'd like to have some consistency in what  
> public expectations I need to manage/meet... and there's also an  
> argument from social science that consistency matters.  But as  
> usual we need the middle way and, as you say, there aren't a lot of  
> folks who specialize in balance.
>
> Apparently there's going to be a hearing in House Homeland Security  
> on the 14th about this stuff.  Any thoughts as to how we might get  
> the user-experience issue on the policy agenda before it gets  
> framed as merely an engineering problem?
>
> - Art
>
> On May 8, 2008, at 5/8/08 8:02 PM, David Aylward wrote:
>
>> This is a very thoughtful article, Art.  Good for you.
>>
>> User interface/engagement is really an entirely different issue  
>> than the transport and distribution/routing issues that are the  
>> expertise of most the parties who have been involved with CAP,  
>> EDXL etc.
>>
>> You bridge those worlds, but most of us don't.  The telco guys who  
>> created their own standard instead of CAP in the FCC WARN process  
>> certainly are not experts on the psychology of public warning --  
>> they are superb network engineers.
>>
>> It is not clear to me that the answer is a centralized answer  
>> versus a user defined one.  My work with persons with disabilities  
>> has taught me that many of my assumptions about emergency  
>> communications were too narrow.  But these are issues that persons  
>> with real expertise in human response should be addressing, not  
>> tech folks.
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