Public warning in the networked age

Botterell, Art; Addams-Moring, Ronja

doi:10.1145/1226736.1226767

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“…In the interviews, the participants discussed several potential channels for obtaining emergency information and public warnings. The recognition of many different channels is essential since people often need to confirm the information in warnings from multiple sources before acting [56]. Some interviewees emphasised the importance of their senses of smell and sight in the recognition of potential health hazards in their own living environments.…”

Section: Public Warning Systems: Citizens' Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safe City: A Study of Channels for Public Warnings for Emergency Communication in Finland, Germany, and Greece

Yli-Kauhaluoma,

Statheropoulos,

Zygmanowski

et al. 2023

MTI

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Public warning systems are an essential element of safe cities. However, the functionality of neither traditional nor digital emergency warnings is understood well enough from the perspective of citizens. This study examines smart city development from the perspective of safety by exploring citizens’ viewpoints. It investigates people’s perceptions of the ways in which they obtain warnings and information about emergencies involving health risks. Data were collected in the form of focus group interviews and semi-structured interviews in Finland, Germany, and Greece. The results suggest that people place a lot of trust in their social network, receiving text messages, and their ability to use web-based search engines in order to obtain public warnings. The study discusses the challenges identified by citizens in the use of conventional radio and television transmissions and sirens for public warnings. Based on the results, citizens demonstrate informed ignorance about existing mobile emergency applications. Our results imply that it is not sufficient to build emergency communication infrastructure: the development of smart, safe cities requires continuous work and the integration of both hard and soft infrastructure-oriented strategies, i.e., technological infrastructure development including digitalisation and education, advancement of knowledge, and participation of people. Both strategic aspects are essential to enable people to take advantage of novel digital applications in emergency situations.

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Section: Public Warning Systems: Citizens' Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safe City: A Study of Channels for Public Warnings for Emergency Communication in Finland, Germany, and Greece

Yli-Kauhaluoma,

Statheropoulos,

Zygmanowski

et al. 2023

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“…The ECWS literature provides a broad range of studies and theories that cover different system types, technologies, applications, and socio-technical factors (Botterell and Addams-Moring, 2007;Carver and Turoff, 2007;Palen et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2008).…”

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“…In addition, ICT systems were also found to provide critical functional and managerial support to recovering communities and workforces. Practical studies have explored the capabilities and advantages of technologies and systems for peer, agency, and country-level communications and broadcasting (Quarantelli, 1988;Trim, 2004;Kapucu, 2006;Botterell and Addams-Moring, 2007). Other research has highlighted the value of using modern ICT for business continuity operations, victims' management and tracking, and recovery process logging functions (Arnold et al, 2004;Boin and McConnell, 2007).…”

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Emergency communications and warning systems

Martin

Rice

2012

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

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Purpose -The frequent occurrence of emergencies and disasters continues to threaten community safety and security. Emergency communications and warning systems (ECWS) allow people to make decisions and take actions before, during and after the emergency or disaster. The critical objective of this study is to determine the critical capacities of ECWS in the Australian context. Design/methodology/approach -This study used stakeholder analysis in which written submissions from individuals, and public and private organizations collected by the Australian federal government were subjected to structured coding techniques in order to identify major ECWS capacity issues. The summary of findings were generating by axially collapsing and summarizing the coded statements. Findings -Findings showed that a broad range of ECWS are deployed in the Australian context. These ECWS come with social and/or technical limitations that suggest the importance of adopting an integrated or systems based approach for their construction and deployment. Also, while the identification of critical infrastructure vulnerabilities reinforced the argument for an integrated systems approach for ECWS, this also demonstrated the pressing need to build resilience and redundancy into domestic infrastructure networks. In addition, new and innovative ECWS technologies and solutions will enable improved emergency or disaster management in the future. Originality/value -This paper simultaneously considers important factors and issues impacting ECWS and provides an instructive discourse on the requirement for more combinative ECWS.

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“…Of all the requirements that a public warning must fulfil, being understandable may be the most crucial for the warning's overall success [15]. Depending on the message receiver's role in a hazard, a specific message vocabulary is crucial to ensuring proper message reception.…”

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Towards an Integrated Information Logistics for Multi Hazard Early Warning Systems

Lendholt

Hammitzsch

2012

TOENVIEJ

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Abstract:The delivery of user-tailored warning messages for heterogeneous user groups is a challenge rarely covered by hazard monitoring and Early Warning Systems (EWS) even though it is one of the four key elements of early warning systems identified by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR). This article describes the concepts of generic information logistics developed for the distant early warning system (DEWS). It is not limited to specific hazard types, languages or other deployment specifics. Instead, it enables the generation of user-tailored warning messages that account for specific needs, individual requirements, different levels of understanding, distinct perceptions and varying personal abilities and it provides several filter mechanisms to avoid unintentional message flooding in emergency situations. This novel approach is completed by a reusable graphical user interface component, which provides functionality to generate warning messages in compliance with the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard to leverage inter-operability among early warning systems.

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Public warning in the networked age

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Safe City: A Study of Channels for Public Warnings for Emergency Communication in Finland, Germany, and Greece

Safe City: A Study of Channels for Public Warnings for Emergency Communication in Finland, Germany, and Greece

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