The Future of Public Alerting Gordon A. Gow Alberta Broadcaster Public Alerting Recognition Symposium January 14, 2008 Red Deer, Canada
Edmonton 1987
The Future Past: First Generation Public Alerting
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” -Computer scientist Alan Kay
“The future … will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.” - Sci-Fi author John Sladek
Local innovation
Next Generation Public Alerting
coordination & consistency
completeness & coverage
control
Inventing the future
one message, many media geo-coding + event coding message priority authentication open standard
Issuer CAPAN CAP-encoded message EPWS signal Issuer Wireless telcos Wireline telcos Over-air broadcast Cable TV Internet provider Over-air broadcast PUSH method POLL method
Edmonton 1987
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