The 2019 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop and the CAP Train the Trainers session will be in in a Justice Superior Court of Mexico City building at Rio de La Plata 56, Cuauhtémoc, 06500 Mexico City. There are many lodging options convenient to the facility. The Workshop is a technical meeting conducted in English […]
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The 2019 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop and the CAP Train the Trainers sessionwill be in a building of the Justice Superior Court of Mexico City at Niños Héroes 121, Col. Doctores 06720, Ciudad de México, There are many lodging options convenient to the facility. The Workshop is a technical meeting conducted in English
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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
The World Metereological Organization (WMO) marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate, which was first issued in 1194. The 2019 edition treating data for 2018 marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate. Some
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This report from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project examines efforts to better understand and manage the risks of extreme heat on human wellbeing, including the public health burden heat poses and the direct and indirect impacts of heatwaves. The assessment was made in support of the Climate Service for Resilient Development
The Pillowcase Project is a school-based disaster preparedness education program first implemented in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 by American Red Cross volunteers in Louisiana, before being rolled out in 7 countries across the world. Originally designed for children aged 8 to 11 (grades 3–5), it provides key preparedness messages combining coping skill
As Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) societies move forward to deliver digital disaster information and preparedness messaging, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is asking how best to capitalize on the growing accessibility of digital communications for future outreach. Emerging questions like, ‘Should we invest more in gaming or in applications that educate and/or deliver services?’ and ‘Which
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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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