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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Colonel Lamar Davis of the Louisiana State Police (LSP), recently summed up the law enforcement landscape, saying, “When you look at crime today, it’s not just a public safety or law enforcement problem—it’s a social problem.” Share data and facilitate collaboration For first responders, poor communication can have dire consequences.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). Now every country needs a basic law that broadly specifies the organisation and structure of the civil protection system, and how it works. Let's lay it on the line: these are disasters.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication. Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Alexander, D.E. Ambraseys, N.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.