California State government real politik… sobering…
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_15452125
Federal Gov’t 2.0
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=45605
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/gov-20-week-in-review-summer-h.html
US DHS FEMA Disaster Assistance Widget
US State Dept Social Media Policy
US OMB Reforming the Federal Govt Efforts to Manage IT Projects
OASIS IDCloud standard -
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2010-05-19.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/news/idcloud-press-release.pdf
& July 15 Webex on OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
To EIC members and friends:
Your attention is directed to the announcement below regarding an upcoming webinar on EDXL and the Common Alerting protocol.
Donald R. Ponikvar, PhD
Chair
Emergency Interoperability Consortium
Voice: 202-254-7530
Fax: 202-254-7455
Blackberry: 202-368-4922
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OASIS invites you to attend a free, 1 hour webinar on the Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) suite of standards including Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
Thursday, 15 July, 15:00 UTC/GMT:
8:00 am San Francisco
11:00 am Boston
4:00 pm London
5:00 pm Berlin
The webinar will provide an overview of EDXL and how implementation can enhance interoperability and information sharing capabilities in the emergency management and response domains. The presentations will highlight the CAP and EDXL Distribution Element (DE) standards with specific implementation examples. This webinar will also provide an overview of the NIMS Supporting Technology Evaluation Program which evaluates products for the EDXL suite of standards and publishes reports on the Responder Knowledge Base website. During the presentation there will be an opportunity for Q&A with a panel of experts.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in interoperability and information-sharing within the emergency management and response domain including:
* Implementers seeking to identify relevant technical standards
* Developers with questions on how to best implement the standards
* Experts in the design and implementation of XML-based standards
Reference links:
* OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=emergency
* OASIS Emergency Management Adoption Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=emergency-adopt
* OASIS Membership
http://www.oasis-open.org/join/categories.php
Title: “Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) 101″
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Register now by clicking the link below:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/858481577
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
*Please feel free to distribute to your colleagues*
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows(R) 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000
Macintosh(R)-based attendees
Required: Mac OS(R) X 10.4.11 (Tiger(R)) or newer
Dee Schur, Member Support
OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society http://www.oasis-open.org
+1.978.667.5115 x211
All stories…
http://www.economist.com/science-technology/technology-quarterly/
…. those with overt applicability to the LE, FOUO, HLS, and DoD domains….
Power from the air? – Re-incarnating Tesla (and no I am not referencing the stellar 80′s band) to change the game for urban C4ISR sensor deployment & obviate the need for plugs, cords, and car chargers for consumers…
http://www.economist.com/node/16295708?story_id=16295708
Old school steam power and autonomous, self fueling biomass robots – military might through mulch?
http://www.economist.com/node/16295752?story_id=16295752
Squishy robots that can meld into tight spots with compeling USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) and public health applications
http://www.economist.com/node/16295646?story_id=16295646
Self healing metal – Beyond the Tin Man from that fateful journey to Oz or simply commuting on the 405, great DoD applicability
http://www.economist.com/node/16295654?story_id=16295654
Loose clicks sink ships (solution, loud music at work is a good thing) – cybersecurity and the use of acoustic typing signatures to remotely hack computers (this could be as disasterously revealing as the un-encripted drone feeds in AfPak, i.e. with line of sight, intruders with a cheap laptop and laser / parabolic microphone could leap firewalls and air-gap systems like Parisienne parcour punks)
http://www.economist.com/node/16295574?story_id=16295574
UPDATE 20100622
http://thegisinstitute.org/blog/deepwater-horizon/deepwater-gis-data-concerns/
http://ushahidi.labucketbrigade.org/
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/06/11/oil.spil.app/
Virtual USA Background
http://www.firstresponder.gov/Pages/VirtualUSA.aspx
BP ArcGIS Server Live Map
http://www.gulfofmexicoresponsemap.com/dwhi/
… and though this is not a subject to take lightly, the following faux CONOPS is telling …
NW China quake resources
New imagery
http://www.google.com/relief/qinghaiearthquake/
Maps
http://www.zki.dlr.de/applications/2010/china/186_en.html
Maps, Data and POCs
http://www.un-spider.org/page/3455/spaceaid-available-space-based-resources-earthquake-nw-china
The highs and the lows of the confluence of mobile/web2.0/crowdsourcing/social media/gps/gis in the Emerald Isle and Britain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/scotland/8610934.stm
