EENA Calls for an Efficient Public Warning System
The European Emergency Number Association says that for too many years, EENA has been calling on relevant authorities to mandate an efficient public warning system and it looks like those calls have completely been ignored.
EENA wites on it website that, today, in the aftermath of the tragic attack in Nice, many articles mention the failures of the emergency alert system in France.
The European Emergency Number Association says that for too many years, EENA has been calling on relevant authorities to mandate an efficient public warning system and it looks like those calls have been ignored.
In 2008 and 2011, the European Parliament asked the European Commission to act for a better public warning system. Other experts had recently criticised the French authorities regarding the lack of ambition of the measures taken. How many more attacks and failures are needed?
In a statement in its website, EENA once again reminds the urgency to implement a multi-channel public warning system which functions when networks are congested, such as Cell Broadcast. The association once again calls on the European Commission to mandate a European public warning system in the upcoming reform of the Telecom Rules. Besides this, EENA once again calls on the French Government, as well as other European countries, to set up an efficient alerting service.
As the EENA calls for action have been ignored by local and international govenments, EENA thanked Google, Twitter, Facebook and the Virtual Operations Support Teams (VOST/VISOV) for their remarkable digital contribution during the events in Nice.
