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2020 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop

The online 2020 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, hosted and co-sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), took place from 29 to 30 September 2020, 12:30-17:30 CEST.  Other co-sponsors of the Workshop were: the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the OASIS standards organization, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
 
The Workshop was a technical meeting intended for information sharing among experts. The workshop was opened to everyone interested in emergency alerting is welcome: managers, technical staff, media, etc., including those in government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and commercial organizations.
 
A CAP Train the Trainers session was held on September 28, 2020, 13:30-16:30.    
 
The sessions of the Workshop was conducted as a video call-in session over Zoom.

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ITU plays an important role in using ICTs for disaster risk reduction and management, through the design of national emergency telecommunication plans, the setting up of early warning and monitoring systems and the provision of emergency telecommunications equipment when disasters strike.


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