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• Question 22/2 – Guidelines on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) – Utilization of ICT for disaster management, resources, and active and passive space-based sensing systems as they apply to disaster and emergency relief situations
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 Structure of this guidelines document
  • 2 The Common Alerting Protocol content standard
    • 2.1 Need for the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
    • 2.2 Benefits of CAP
    • 2.3 CAP is a "content standard"
    • 2.4 Development of the CAP standard
    • 2.5 The CAP message format
    • 2.6 Extensive Markup Language (XML) structure of a CAP message
  • 3 Case study: Implementing a Content Standard for Alert and Notification in Sri Lanka
    • 3.1 Background
    • 3.2 Procedural and prioritization matters
    • 3.3 The issue of languages
    • 3.4 Preliminary results and discussion
  • 4 Suggestions for immediate actions to implement the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) content standard
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Policy-makers, regulators and telecommunication operators
    • 4.3 Sources of public warnings
    • 4.4 Receivers of public warnings
    • 4.5 Intermediaries for public warnings
    • 4.6 Other infrastructure components for public warning
    • 4.7 Other actors in disaster management
  • Bibliography
  • Annex I – Question 22/2: Utilization of ICT for disaster management, resources, and active and passive space-based...
    • I.1 Statement of the situation
    • I.2 Question for study
    • I.3 Expected output
    • I.4 Timing
    • I.5 Proposers
    • I.6 Sources of input
    • I.7 Target audience
    • I.8 Proposed methods of handling the Question
    • I.9 Coordination
    • I.10 Other relevant information
  • Annex II – Resolution 34 (Rev. Doha, 2006)
  • Annex III - Resolution 136 (Antalya, 2006)