Multimedia

German language presentation (.PPT) This presentation in the German language is by the Hon Sec of CEASA-CH, and was presented to the Swiss Government conference on Public Warning in Aug 2004.

Cell@lert V5 (ppt) This power point presentation also has speakers and students notes (in the notes page). It covers the need for a new public warning system and the overall concept of how it will be delivered. It then goes into some technical detail ...

Who gets the job? How can we get the job done and who is best placed to do it?

Advance Broadcast Commander. Many municipalities have advanced GIS systems for disaster management. How will we integrate with such sophisticated systems?

Government to Government communications CB works great in full overload. So it can be used to manage emergeny aid workers.

How does the citizen switch it on. There are several ways to get the citizen online, some of them are discussed here.

The phone and how it behaves How does the terminal behave when listening for a cell broadcast message.

SMS and Cell Broadcast Compared. SMS and CB have precicely complementary atributes, here we discuss them.

Historical problems and their solution. If it is such a good idea, why has it not been done before? More to the point, how are we going to get the job done now.

Introduction to Emergency Cell Broadcasting.mov A short overview of what cell broadcasting is and why it is interesting in disaster management.