Objectives

• To understand how new media can be used to extend the reach of public information systems and improve community response to emergencies (understanding communities).
• To establish the foundation of an innovative new service with the potential to save lives and property, nationally and globally (emergency management capability).
• To assert the interests of emergency management organizations in the evolution of new national media communications infrastructure (information management and technology).

• An initial exploration of the new technologies;
• Designed to provide insights, not definitive answers;
• A pilot, intended to identify potential applications of new technologies in the domain;
• Intended to build upon existing protocols; Intended to provide a foundation for future research and development.

• A definitive or final solution;
• A competitor to existing emergency public information systems (rather it is a complement to current modes of communication);
• Intended to have significant impacts on existing workflows and responsibilities of stakeholder agencies;
• Focussed on intra-agency or inter-agency communication;
  
• Intended to generate new types of information content.