Community Response Grids
The 911.gov project over at the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab looks intriguing. Ben Shneiderman gave the keynote at last year’s ISCRAM, and also had a conference paper on the...
View ArticleEmergency Digital Information Services
The State of California’s Office of Emergency Services has an information system that allows people to subscribe to alerts, or browse them via the web. There is also this web service, Nixle, which is...
View ArticleCalifornia’s DisasterVolunteers
The State of California has made a number of strides towards preemptively engaging the citizenry prior to major disasters. The DisasterVolunteers section of the California Volunteers site is a good...
View ArticleEMI Self-Training
FEMA’s EMI site. The independent study program is accessible here. In particular, these two courses would be a good place to start: IS-230.a Fundamentals of Emergency Management IS-100.HE Introduction...
View ArticleLocal Ham groups
A collection of amateur radio groups in the Southern California area. Caltech/JPL’s CITARC Pasadena Radio Club USC’s Amateur Radio Club More here.
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