Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop 2024
Grand Auditorium, Irish College
- English
Time
09:30 - 17:30 CEST
About
The CAP Implementation Workshop 2024 will be held in Leuven, Belgium October 23-24, 2024, and is co-hosted by Traveler Information Services Association (TISA), Alert-Hub.Org CIC, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), OASIS Open, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
It follows two events on 22 October in the same venue: CAP Training 9:00 to noon and a TISA Workshop all afternoon. Everyone is welcome to participate in all three days. Click here to register.
CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by the CAP standard, International Telecommunication Union Recommendation X.1303. At the Workshops, implementers of CAP and other associated organizations discuss common issues and how to leverage the expanding adoption of CAP.
Background
Today, 87% of the world's population lives in a country with at least one national CAP feed operational. CAP implementation by country is shown in this zoomable map and in the static map below.
Developing nations and small nations have lagged behind other nations in their uptake of CAP. This gap in uptake inspired the Call to Action on Emergency Alerting, launched in April 2021 and endorsed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), WorldBroadcasting Unions (WBU), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), among others. The goal of this Call to Action is: "all countries have the capability for effective, authoritative emergency alerting that leverages the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), suitable for all media and all hazards."
Everyone interested in emergency alerting is welcome: managers, technical staff, media, etc., including government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and commercial firms. There is no charge to participate. For those who cannot participate in person, Webinar call-in instructions will be sent to everyone registered. Documents pertaining to the Workshop and Training are posted to the Workshop website.