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CAP - Implementation Update (Implementation Workshop – Geneva, Switzerland 9-10 December 2008)

Learn about the implementation of the Canadian Profile of CAP, involving governments, media, and private companies, in building a National Public Alerting System. Meteorological Service of Canada has been a key player in this initiative, issuing weather and geo-hazard alerts. The Most Critical Alerts focus on intrusive broadcasting and are managed through the NPAS layer. The CAP-CP file ensures compliance with CAP standards. The MSC has produced over 32,000 CAP-CP messages, targeting alerts by location, urgency, and event kind. Explore more at the www.alerting.ca/cap website.

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CAP - Implementation Update (Implementation Workshop – Geneva, Switzerland 9-10 December 2008)

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  1. CAP - Implementation Update(Implementation Workshop – Geneva, Switzerland 9-10 December 2008) Norm Paulsen (norm.paulsen@ec.gc.ca) Meteorological Service of Canada (Toronto) - Information Strategy Section December 9th, 2008

  2. National Public Alerting System (NPAS) • Canada building a National Public Alerting System using CAP • Involves • Governments at all levels • Media at all levels • Some private companies • Meteorological Service of Canada (part of Environment Canada) • Estimating 100,000 weather alerts annually (250 most critical level) • Natural Resources Canada • Estimating 100 geo-hazard alerts annually (25 most critical level) • Numerous other jurisdictions • Estimates not yet available (Issuer and event list growing and open ended for growth)

  3. CAP - Canadian Profile • All parties jointly have built a Canadian Profile of CAP • Canadian events • Canadian locations • Canadian interpretations • Canadian rules • Languages • Issuer rights • A valid CAP-CP file will also validate to CAP

  4. The Most Critical Alerts… • are the main interest of the political leaders • are defined as “Broadcast Intrusive” within the Public Alerting System • Distributors are to apply intrusive measures in getting the message out (pushing with bells and whistles) • The Intrusive setting will be handled with the use of a <parameter> tag in the NPAS layer of the CAP files • NPAS to aggregate, validate, modify where necessary, and act as a dispatch centre for the distributors within the NPAS community

  5. Met. Service of Canada (MSC)… • has built an implementation of CAP-CP as a guide to all other Canadian efforts in public alerting • Over 32000 MSC CAP-CP messages produced since June 2008 • So far…6 different “Feeds” (message conduits) created to demonstrate message targeting… • Targeting by Location (city, location) • Targeting by Urgency (immediate, future, etc..) • Targeting by Event Kind (tornado, blizzard) • Others • This MSC implementation is known as the CAP Canadian Profile“Reference Implementation” • We see it as a template for Canadian public alerting stakeholders to follow for interpretation and guidance of CAP and CAP-CP.

  6. Web Site (www.alerting.ca/cap) • Sections Include • RSS alert feeds • Reference Implementation • CAP examples • Alerting Scenarios • Supporting Documents • Site Change log • Future Change log • Others • Access filtered to those who self identify to EC

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