• Social media should play role in emergency warnings: Vic Flood Review

  A review of the 2010-11 floods in Victoria has urged the state government to ramp up its use of social media with the establishment of a standard social media policy to underpin its emergency warning and public information system.

• Senate committee urges disaster communication fix

  Federal, state and territory emergency services should be able to communicate with each other via radio during an emergency, a senate committee has recommended.

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  $600 million to fix Qld police radio system

  Upgrading Queensland's police radio system to digital technology would cost around $600 million, the floods inquiry has heard.

• New mobile computing for Queensland emergency services

  The increasing availability of high speed wireless data networks and mobile computing devices has spurred the Queensland Government to expand its application of mobile data systems for its agencies providing emergency services.

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  Telstra trials radio technology for emergency services

  A new mobile service known as Group Radio Solution could be implemented across Telstra’s Next G network for use by Australian emergency service organisations.

Whitepapers about emergency services

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  No Bull - What Customers Should Expect from Cloud Services

  This paper describes how a cloud Services User achieves the true benefits of cloud services and sends warning messages to the providers, hosting companies and telecommunications firms. It also provides clues on how a customer can gain better value from services offered by the new cloud companies and Hosting businesses.