During emergency operations, Australian Red Cross, like many emergency management agencies, uses the Australasian Inter-Service Incident Management System (AIIMS). This provides Red Cross within a common incident management framework, and allows Red Cross to better coordinate with other organisations with…
The wisdom of a crowd: warnings of the future
Our approach to warning communities of an emergency has transformed rapidly over the last decade. A little bit further back, say 15 years ago, we were only just beginning to consider how we might use the internet to share public…