- From: Don Cameron <donc@internode.on.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:25:28 +1100
- To: "'Renato Iannella'" <renato@nicta.com.au>, <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Hi Renato, Thanks for the welcome. I'm an Australian Fire Services Regional Officer (ret), member of the Sahana Board of Directors and have joined this initiative as a current representative of the mining, industrial emergency response and mines rescue sectors. I also hope to leverage the expertise of my industry in this initiative. My motivation is similar to those expressed by others - During 1982 I commenced development of the EMS Emergency application (the Emergency Management System); a system that evolved to become a suite of software application modules for the management of disaster volunteers, finances, operations (alerts, dispatch and ICS), planning, pre-planning and logistics. EMS was widely used in Australia until 1998 when it was broadly replaced by proprietary in-house disaster software systems. That it was replaced was a blessing (to me!) as the sector had demonstrably evolved to a point where it desired improvement to information and communications management. Unfortunately a down-side was the rapid development of proprietary systems and promotion of various newly adopted standards; few of which were compatible with each other. Hence my current involvement with Sahana and desire to promote the value of standards that meet and exceed the objectives of humanitarian-based disaster response, mitigation and recovery. Kind regards, Don Cameron Xstrata (www.xstrata.com) +61 2 63725314
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