The perspectives of people with disabilities in emergencies
I am an irregular listener to Radio 4′s “In Touch” magazine programme for blind and visually impaired people. Though I am not blind or visually impaired. It may be that I was influenced by the fact...
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Go off grid but not offline (cross post)
This post first appeared on the Kind of Digital blog where I sometimes write. I’ve copied it here because of the resilience implications. That nice Mr Briggs has been encouraging me to post some stuff...
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How has emergency communication changed in four years?
I’m taking the four-year anniversary of having left permanent local government employ and becoming a freelance public servant to review on how things have changed. I’m using my own blog posts from the...
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The final word on Exercise Watermark
The UK Government along with the Welsh Government have published their response to the final report on Exercise Watermark. That’s not a beautiful sentence. Let’s unpick it a bit. In 2007 there were...
View ArticleGetting volunteers to monitor digital spaces in emergencies
This has been cross posted to the VOSTUK site. A version is planned to appear in the September edition of “Resilience” magazine. There is a practice emerging in the USA called VOST (Virtual Operations...
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Cardiac surgery in hoodies
Over lunch at ukgovcamp @pseudograph asked me if any of my twitter celebrities were there. I said no. There are great people who I really admire but I kind of know them so they’ve lost that celebrity...
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A really quite useful research project
DFUSE Smart City Evacuations A group of academics from UK universities have been beavering away for a couple of years now on the DFUSE project. I mentioned this last June. They have been examining the...
View ArticleOpen and shut: social networks can improve your information picture
“Last year all this was surrounded by water” Not surprisingly the emergency planners of Wales are very interested in flooding. The received wisdom is that the biggest risk to communities is from the...
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Where it happens: a trip to the FCO crisis response centre
Emergency cupboard When I first took over emergency planning for a local authority my emergency control centre consisted of a cupboard housing two VHF radios and a 60 watt light bulb. We also had a...
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Have we met? In praise of rapport
I write to you from the Cotswolds as my train makes its stately progress from London to the fine city of Hereford. I have been down in the capital catching up with some folk, making new connections...
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Google+ in your crisis comms plan?
Hanging out Google+ must be coming of age. I say this because Dan Slee wrote a blog post about it the other dayand the estimable Shane Dillon has been exhorting people to give it a go and think about...
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What a good Local Resilience Forum does around communicating with the public
From last month I’m a bit late with my list of recommended summer reading and, it turns out, there’s only one book on it. The role of Local Resilience Forums: A reference document by the Cabinet...
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