WebEOC was extensively used within the US National Capitol Region (NCR) to manage aspects such as crowd safety, road and air closures and receiving hospitals in order to provide a common operating picture.
Having visited the Washington DC Emergency Operations Centre in my previous career and seen liaison positions for over 30 state and federal law enforcement agencies it is not surprising that they need a common platform in order to undertake this coordination.
Within Auckland we can already do some of this as we are able to easily share data between Auckland City Council's WebEOC and the Health Sector's WebEOC. This means any of the health users in the Region can post significant events straight to a status board in Auckland City CDEM EOC, whilst health users can access boards such as evacuation shelter directly.
However the National Capitol Region went one stage further and deployed a webfusion server that allows many instances of not just webeoc, but other applications such as mobilising or emergency management systems to talk to each other without any complicated API (application program interface) being required.
Monday, February 9, 2009
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