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Join Us! Nat'l VOAD Conference

VisionLink

This annual gathering of Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster is the nation's leading gathering of non-profit and faith-based disaster response agencies. To learn more about NVOAD's DART, the Disaster Agency Response Technology platform powered by Visionlink technology, check out this link.

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FCC updates how some emergency alerts will look on phones

The Verge

The two will now be in a new “National Alerts” category, active on all devices that receive Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). The false alert in Hawaii in 2018, where residents were warned of an imminent ballistic missile threat that wasn’t real , highlighted the need for improvements to its alert system, the agency said.

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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have to respect Mother Nature – and whether we live by the Ocean where Hurricanes can hit or along a fault line where earthquakes can shake down our homes. Do we take natural disaster seriously ? Are we prepared? Interestingly, Kanu Hawaii has also redeveloped their whole site within Facebook.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in 2011 to be involved in disaster training programs leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, called the “March to 1 Million” program. In 2010, SAF’s “Drill Down for Safety” project mobilized nearly 800,000 people with national texting drills! It was a simple equation that built a movement of 20,000 women in Hawaii at our peak.

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Ahead of planned IPO, Knightscope’s CEO discusses opportunity and controversy

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013 by William Santana Li, a Ford executive, and Stacy Stephens, a former Texas police officer (the co-founders of police vehicle firm Carbon Motors), the Mountain View-based firm has risen to national prominence with its high-profile surveillance robots. the company’s sole market for the foreseeable future). You can assert that.

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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

The AI Alignment Forum

Within months, U3 is running inside of the data centers of the most cyber-capable nations: Israel, the PRC, and Russia. If you read the ending and your reaction is, But the experiments would take too long, or nation-states would just do X, remember the difference between the Sunday afternoon blogger and the ascendant GPU nation.

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How Hawaii residents are becoming ‘Firewise’ after the Maui fires

Fast Company Tech

Its ugly, but its pretty beautiful to me, said Graham, a member of Kahikinui’s Firewise committee, part of a rapidly growing program from the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association that helps residents assess their communities’ fire risk and create plans to mitigate it. Everyone was like, My God, what can we do?

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