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Canadian Profile of the Common Alerting Protocol and Related Geomatics Initiatives

The international public alerting community is adopting the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) as its standard for public alerts and notices.

In Canada, the CAP is to be used to create and transport public alerts and notices for all hazards and public-service disruptions (for example, a blackout due to a hydro outage).

This GeoConnections project has as its goals to:

  1. Define a Canadian Profile (CAP-CP) for the Common Alerting Protocol standard;
  2. Define a Change Management Process (CAP-CMP) and support it through 2009;
  3. Work towards official standardization of CAP-CP;
  4. Identify requirements for a common geospatial presentation of CAP-CP alerts;
  5. Identify and promote reference implementations of CAP-CP and the geospatial presentation of CAP-CP content; and
  6. Develop and disseminate educational materials and programs.

The project will result in the establishment of a Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification chartered CAP-CP Oversight Committee. The committee's goal is to satisfy the requirements of federal, provincial, territorial, municipal and Aboriginal officials, as well as academics and private-sector representatives. The Committee will meet regularly to complete and document a revised CAP-CP and manage a CAP-CP change management process.

The adoption of a CAP-CP means that there will be a common operational picture across platforms and between agencies in Canada. The primary benefit will be improved situational awareness in the public safety community and the Canadian public.

Improved situational awareness will be achieved through increased information via several sources, in a common format, supported by automated processing, translation, and geospatial presentation.


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Primary Partner: Canadian Association for Public Alerting and Notification (CAPAN)  Ottawa,  Ontario;

Partners:
CARIS Geospatial Software Solutions Ltd
City of St. John's
ESRI Canada Inc
Infonaut
New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization
Saskatchewan Corrections and Public Safety

Funding From GeoConnections: $75,000.00 ( 35.05 %)

Estimated Inception Date: February, 2009

Estimated Completion Date: December, 2009

Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces