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Renewed GeoConnections
The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet.
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Overcoming Canada's Public Alerting and Notification Distribution Challenge
The objective of this project is to develop a strategic plan to overcome Canada's public alerting and notification distribution challenges. Overcoming these challenges will involve linking the authorities that issue alerts with the organizations that broadcast alerts to the public.
Today, some 6000 organizations ranging from police departments to television weather networks and cell phone companies have the potential to either issue or transmit emergency alerts. These alerts can deal with a host of topics: severe weather, road outages, accidents, missing persons, diseases, and so on.
At present, however, no single organization is responsible for aggregating these alerts. This project's strategic plan will determine how best to establish such a role. It will also provide recommendations on how to encourage organizations such as government agencies, broadcasters, telecom companies, and utilities to issue alerts using the Common Alerting Protocol Canadian Profile (CAPCP)-a protocol that will help the aggregator collect and authenticate alerts.
This project will help Canada lead the introduction, promotion, and adoption of Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) data standards and common practices related to geospatial public alerts. Canadians will benefit from this project by the quick and effective distribution of emergency alerts, notices that could save property as well as lives.
Primary Partner:
New Brunswick Department of Public Safety - New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization
Fredericton,
New Brunswick;
Partners:
Alberta Emergency Management Agency
Environment Canada
Communications New Brunswick
New Brunswick Department of Education
Ontario Small Urban Municipalities
City of Brampton (Ontario)
Pelmorex The Weather Network.
RCMP Amber Alert
University of Alberta University of Alberta-Faculty of Law
University of New Brunswick-Faculty of Law
Smartypants.com
City of Sarnia (Ontario)
Aamjiwnaang First Nation
City of Brandon (Manitoba)
Telus Geomatics
City of St. John (N.B.)
Funding From GeoConnections: $40,000.00 ( 35.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: November, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: March, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: