[LINK] Australian Disaster Information Smart Phone App

[Tom Worthington]

The Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, launched a 
"DisasterWatch" App for Apple iPhones and Google Android on 8 December 
2011: http://www.em.gov.au/Resources/Pages/DisasterWatchPhoneApp.aspx

The app provides information on "disaster events" using information 
provided by state emergency authorities. The application does not 
provide emergency alerts. Also there is no provision of this information 
via the web, or in any other format, only for iPhone and Android smart 
phone users.

The Australian Emergency Management Institute needs to improve this 
application by providing emergency alerts and also providing the same 
information via a web page and in other online formats.

A good first step would be to correct the errors in the Attorney 
General's Department "Australian Emergency Management" web pages. The 
AEM home page has 77 Errors in the HTML. It also scores zero out of 100 
on the W3C mobileOK Checker, with 3 critical, 5 severe, 2 medium and 6 
low failures.


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Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science,
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