[LINK] Australian Disaster Information Smart Phone App

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm ...

Factor in that it has no Bushfire functionality (but does have tsunami functionality), seems as slow as a wet week, provides only minimal disaster information, and as Tom's post said no alerts ... and one wonders why it was even released.

Not a red letter product, I'm afraid.
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On 12/12/2011, at 9:28 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:

> 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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