Alert-Hub.Org CIC
(Community Interest Company)
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Our Goal
Our Goal
Alert-Hub.Org is a small non-profit company with a worldwide goal: help countries assure that people in harm's way get timely and effective emergency alerts so they can protect lives and livelihoods.
The Problem
The Problem
Historically, emergency alerts have been text bulletins, composed like a news story. Unstructured text messages make sense for personal communication, but not for automated processing. Although some emergency alerts became digital, the alerts varied by hazard type, language, or country. Timely and effective public alerting at global scale only became feasible in 2001, when the international standard for all-hazards emergency alerting was agreed.
Despite today's amazing telecommunications services, too many people in harm's way still do not get timely and effective emergency alerts so they can protect lives and livelihoods. This gap in alerting is especially acute in least-developed and developing countries, where communities are often the most vulnerable as well.
The Solution
The Solution
Alert-Hub.Org addresses ineffective emergency alerting by offering free tools for alerting authorities everywhere to implement the same transformative approach already delivering timely and effective emergency alerts in most countries worldwide. Specifically, alerting authorities are offered free tools enabling their emergency alert systems to leverage the international standard Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
A CAP message communicates, in a standard format, the key facts and the recommended actions for any emergency. Use of the CAP format greatly increases alerting efficiency, timeliness, and effectiveness. This is primarily because each CAP alert message carries data designed for machine processing as well as information that people can read.
At least one CAP Feed is operational at national level covering 90% of people worldwide (see CAP Implementation Report and map of CAP uptake.)
Freeware Supported by Alert-Hub.Org
Freeware Supported by Alert-Hub.Org
Our free CAP Editor tool makes it easy to create and publish CAP alerts as an Internet news feed.
Our free Filtered Alert Hub (FAH) service aggregates published CAP alert news feeds at any scale (community, city, province, country, region, global) so that every alert disseminator can access for free those CAP alerts relevant to the communities they serve.
Both Alert-Hub.Org products are in the UN Early Warnings for All Action Plan (see "Actions" under "Dissemination and Communication").
Short Videos about CAP
Short Videos about CAP
EW4All - CAP Intro
EW4All - CAP Intro
UN Early Warnings for All
(EW4All) initiative
IFRC - Intro to CAP
IFRC - Intro to CAP
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
CAP Alert - Volcano
CAP Alert - Volcano
2021, La Soufriera Volcano,
St Vincent and the Grenadines
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