Transcript Canadian alerting policy considerations

CANADIAN ALERTING POLICY
CONSIDERATIONS
RICHARD MOREAU, CHIEF - INTEROPERABILITY DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE
DOUG ALLPORT, SENIOR ADVISOR, ACTING GENERAL MANAGER –
MASAS
MAY 1, 2012
PRESENTATION
Canadian policy considerations
• Public alerting
• Alerting between officials
SHARED GOVERNANCE
FEDERAL/PROVINCIAL/TERRITORIAL
• Public alerting
• CAP – Canadian Profile
(CAP-CP)
• Multi-Agency Situational
Awareness System
• Others
LANGUAGE POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
PROXIMITY TO THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL (PUBLIC) ALERT AGGREGATION AND
DISSEMINATION SYSTEM (NAADS)
• Privately owned
• Result of regulatory decision/considerations
• Public/private governance council
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Pelmorex (The Weather Network/MétéoMedia)
Federal, provincial and territorial alerting authorities
Broadcasters
CAPAN
PUBLIC ALERTING POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
Broadcast Intrusive List
• Table of event, urgency, severity and certainty combinations
• Owned by federal, provincial and territorial group
Common Look and Feel
• Broadcast crawler length, tone, colour, audio length, quality,
content
• Led by province, with public and private participants
Issuer Rights
• One of 140 event types, one or more levels of severity, for a
single town, township, city, etc.
• Managed by provinces using NAADS interface
CANADA-U.S. POLICY TO BE DEVELOPED
Beyond the Border Action Plan
Page 25: “The second working Group will focus on cross-border
interoperability as a means of harmonizing cross-border emergency
communications efforts. It will pursue activities that promote the
harmonization of the Canadian Multi-Agency Situational Awareness
System with the United States Integrated Public Alert and Warning
System to enable sharing of alert, warning, and incident
information to improve response coordination during binational
disasters.”
MULTI-AGENCY SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
SYSTEM INFORMATION EXCHANGE
WHAT IS AN ENTRY?
• Less than an alert
• Reduces over-alerting
• Provides an alternative for those who are not allowed to issue an
alert
• Use case:
• Issue CAP alert that shelters are open
• Identify shelter locations with an Entry, and update them
regularly without issuing alert updates, hourly per location, for
example.
SCOPE POLICY
Restricted access Hub:
“the break-out room”
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Moving from restricting
what we share to
restricting what we don’t!
Road
closures,
severe weather,
check points,
area of operation,
command posts, plumes,
evacuation zone, shelter
water stations, shelter status,
staging area, Supply depot, live
cameras, media events, sensors,
sitreps, earthquakes, space weather, ...
MASAS-X
Common Hub
AUTHENTICATION CONSIDERATIONS
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We authenticate agencies, they manage authority.
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We will give them the opportunity to configure user accounts
for their agency. Ex: “Read Only”, “Training Mode Only”.
NGO’s must be “endorsed” by a public agency to gain access.
FUNDING
• Currently operates a s a federally funded “Pilot”
• Transition to a cost-shared model is currently under study
OWNERSHIP POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
• Alternatives have been studied and are now under review
• May be owned and managed by a co-operative
• Every user is a member subject to common “evergreen” bylaws
• “Membership” agreement instead of “Participation” or
“Service” agreements
MORE DETAILS IN PRESENTATION LATER, AND
DEMONSTRATION THURSDAY