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Overview of Newsbug
Newsbug is…
- an all-hazard,
- multi-channel
- Public Emergency Warning System
- based on
international emergency alerting protocols.
The system automatically
alerts members of the public in the event of fire, cyclone, flood,
hail, tsunami, chemical spill… etc. the product of a research project
sponsored by Emergency Management Australia (a division of the
Australia Attorney General’s Department) the Western Australian Fire
and Emergency Services Authority, the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC) and Murdoch University, Perth. Category award winner
of the 2004 Australian Safer Communities Awards, sponsored by the
Australian Attorney General’s Department. The project was funded under
the 2003 Emergency Management Australia Projects grant scheme, and was
carried out by Murdoch University, with the collaboration of The
Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Fire and Emergency Services
Authority of Western Australia.
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