CAP Implementation Workshops provide a forum for implementors of CAP and associated organizations to discuss how best to expand adoption of the CAP standard and to share practices among users of the standard. There is no charge to participate and anyone interested in emergency alerting is welcome: managers, technical staff, media, etc., including commercial organizations, […]
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The host of the 2019 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop is the Secretariat of Civil Protection of Mexico City. The Workshop will be at the Justice Superior Court of Mexico City at Niños Héroes 121, Col. Doctores 06720, Ciudad de México. The Workshop will be 17-18 October. It will be preceded by a CAP
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The 2019 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop willl be held 17 – 18 October, in Mexico City, Mexico. The host of this Workshop is the Secretariat of Civil Protection of Mexico City and the venue is the Justice Superior Court of Mexico City. CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by the CAP
This document concerns administrative operations for running the “CAP Editor” freeware. CAP Editor is a tool for creating and publishing emergency alerts in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format. CAP Editor runs on the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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CAP Editor presents a link to CAP alert message templates in HTML that provide text suggestions for the “headline”, “description” and “instruction” elements of a CAP alert. These CAP alert message templates address about 20 common alerting situations. The templates are in English, Dutch, French, Papiamento, and Spanish.
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This document annotates a screen-by-screen preview of the CAP Editor freeware, as it would be seen by a person authenticated in the role of “composer” or “approver”.
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This document provides an example template for the particular phrases (about 1,000 words total) that must be translated to enable the CAP Editor to customize its user interface. Translations to the new language are indicated by replacing the entries in the “French” column (noting that the words highlighted in yellow must remain in English). Once
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The Common Alerting Protocol standard, officially designated as International Telecommunication Union Recommendation X.1303, is described in an online alerting context.
Led by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and supported by the German Red Cross, the Bangladesh FbF project is at the forefront of experience with FbF activation and funding delivery in the Asia-Pacific region. This case study examines the effectiveness of distributing unconditional cash grants to affected people as an early action measure in the
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