Section: Introduction | Common Alerting Protocol: CAP Basics

Section outline

What happens when your hazardous weather alerts go out to the public? How widely are they distributed to the people in the impact zones? What can your organization do to make your alerts easily accessible to the public, the media, online venues, and alerting systems?
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- Select activity The use of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) can ...
  
  The use of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) can improve how your organization coordinates and disseminates alerts. The WMO Public Weather Services Delivery (PWSD) programme is supporting the effort to implement the Common Alerting Protocol for all WMO members, including making this course available to interested parties. The CAP standard is maintained by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and was adopted by the International Telecommunication Union as X.1303. Many disaster response agencies, fire and police departments, and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services around the world use CAP in communicating and coordinating their alerts.
  
  This course provides an overview of CAP, reasons for implementing it, a look at the technology behind it, and examples of how it is being used.