Overview All Partners Access Network Pacific Warfighting Center US Pacific Command Alex Conway

Agenda What is APAN? APAN Demo Q and A APAN Community Model APAN Capabilities

What is APAN? Unclassified Accredited Non.mil UIS Baseline PACOM Funded Operated by PWC PACOM Owned DAA Oversight All Partners Access Network

Communities of Interest Communities of Practice Communities of Responders APAN Community Model Data Sources Other Systems

Join Join the network to establish your online identity within the DoD information sharing community Robust user profiles Represent your expertise, experience, and relevant training Review recent activity (information contributed) View colleagues

Connect Connect with subject matter experts from a wide variety of technical, logistical, and other disciplines Search Explore Add a Colleague

Share Share your valuable knowledge, experiences, and training with others Community- maintained Wiki references Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Discussion Forums Documents, pictures and video Mobile access via & device- independent app

Train, Prepare, and Develop Train, prepare, and develop best practices based on the experiences of others Question… Answer! Lessons Learned

Discover Discover what actions are being taken by organizations involved in crisis events SITREPS, Update Briefs, Meta-Data tagging Aggregated geospatial information

Request Information Request information from key DoD organizations and agencies RFI management, mobility, and meta-data tagging support situational awareness

Offer Offer assistance to those seeking aid 2-Days Later 112 new patients from Helo landings 17 new foreign doctors 4-Days Later Expanded into nearby school Expanded capacity by 100 New cots and equipment Coordinated resupply

Maintain Maintain ongoing, professional relationships across international and organizational boundaries Private conversations Browse colleagues hosting Real-time, multilingual text chat (peer-to-peer and group)

Why APAN? The All Partners Access Network (APAN) provides for effective information exchange and collaboration between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and any external country, organization, agency or individual that does not have access to traditional DOD systems and networks. Why should I join APAN? Establish your online identity within the DOD information sharing community Connect with subject matter experts from a wide variety of technical, logistical, disciplines Share your valuable knowledge, experiences, and training with others Train, prepare, and develop best practices based on the experiences of others Discover what actions are being taken by organizations involved in crisis events Request information from key DOD organizations and agencies Offer assistance to those seeking aid Maintain ongoing, professional relationships across international and organizational boundaries Expand current capabilities by harnessing the power of collaborative web technologies Who uses APAN? U.S. Federal, state or civil organizations and agencies Non-governmental & private agencies who work with the U.S. government Military (domestic and foreign) & and local civil / military authorities International organizations (IOs) Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Others, as needed upon request

Profile Your profile is how you access APAN Keep track of what is happening in your APAN network and Groups Anyone with internet access can create a profile Add a bio, picture, experience, contact info Connect with other APAN users – colleagues Join groups Favorite groups and content for quick access

Groups Groups – online communities within APAN that enable collaboration and information sharing between people who a shared interest or goal. Bring together people and information focused on one topic Group owners Group members

Blog What is a Blog? A way to quickly and easily create webpages/articles on your Group Usually maintained by an author or small group of authors Used to create regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, news, or opinions Entries are displayed in reverse-chronological order One to many communication Often used to relay Group announcements Readers can subscribe via or RSS Readers can favorite, rate, and comment on each blog post Blog Terms Blog - short for Web Log – a way to quickly publish to the web Blog Post - An entry in a blog Comment – A short snippet of text under a blog post left by a blog reader Publish - To release a blog post to the public Subscribe – Receive new blog posts automatically in your inbox or RSS reader

Forum What is a Forum? A way to have an online discussion between Group members Usually maintained by a moderator or small group of moderators Used to create discussions on your Group Users can create discussion topics or ask questions Other users can respond to discussions or answer questions Open communication between all Group members Users can subscribe via or RSS Users can favorite, rate, and respond to any forum thread Forum Terms Forum - short for Web Log – a way to quickly publish to the web Thread - An entry in a blog Reply – A short snippet of text under a blog post left by a blog reader Publish - To release a blog post to the public Subscribe – Receive new blog posts automatically in your inbox or RSS reader

Media Gallery What is a Media Gallery? Post files onto an APAN Group File types – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, images, maps, videos A unique link for each file – easy to to colleagues Add a description, title, tags, comments, ratings, RSS feeds Upload multiple files at once

Wiki What is a Wiki? A wiki allows multiple people to create or edit a web page within an APAN group. A wiki enables APAN groups to write documents collaboratively, using a simple Microsoft Word style editor. The full revision history of the wiki, including when and who contributed, will be archived in the history. The key advantage to using a wiki is that there is no need to worry about version control over a document and all the edits to the document can be viewed by everyone in the group as soon as they are saved by the author. Tag, comment, ratings, RSS Feeds, share within APAN