WEEKLY CONTENT
Week One
OASIS is recognizing National Emergency Management Awareness Month alongside the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) community. We are highlighting the open standards and open source tools that help emergency managers connect systems, share information, and ultimately save lives when it matters most. The OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee (EMTC) has been advancing this work for years.
We’re excited to share the news that the EMTC will be hosting a pre-conference training session on CAP Occupancy Alerting (CAP-OA) on Sunday, 8 November 2026 at the IAEM Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA.
Using USGS ShakeAlert® data to model a Magnitude 7.3 earthquake, this live demo will show how occupancy intelligence can improve real-time resource allocation. Attendees will learn how to upgrade alerts for occupancy, respond effectively with limited resources, and use vendor tools that support interoperability, walking away with working examples to start using CAP-OA on day one.
The following information details more of our approach in weekly segments
More information: https://www.iaemconference.org/fsPopup.asp?PresentationID=1849599&mode=presInfo
Stay tuned for more emergency management updates and information all month long.
Week Two
CAP (Common Alerting Protocol)
The tornado warning on your phone. The AMBER Alert on the highway sign. The broadcast across your television and radio. All of these rely on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an OASIS Standard since 2004 that lets any alerting system, from any vendor, speak the same language.
Today, 97% of the world's population lives in a country with a national CAP feed either operational (90%) or in development (7%). That kind of near-universal reach is exactly why CAP is named as a key component of the UN's Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative, which aims to protect everyone on Earth with life-saving early warning systems by 2027. Watch this short video on CAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaF5Zb0hqU
Keeping CAP working across borders and vendors takes ongoing collaboration. The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop and Training 2026 will be held from 6 – 8 Oct 2026 in Birmingham, England, and online. Last year's workshop drew about 900 registered participants from 143 countries/territories, a sign of just how global this collaboration has become. Learn more & register here: https://cap-workshop.alert-hub.org/2026/index.html
Week Three
EDXL and EMF
When fire fighters, EMS, hospitals, and emergency management all run different software, the OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL), a suite of XML-based messaging standards, allows them to share resource requests, hospital status, and situational awareness without custom integrations for every pair of systems. EDXL is an open standard that’s free to implement and isn’t tied to any single vendor.
The OASIS Emergency Management Framework (EMF) takes that a step further. It's an open source toolkit, built on EDXL, that lets developers create, send, store, and organize emergency messages, all released under an open license so any agency or developer can build on it directly. The OASIS Emergency Management TC is proud to continue advancing and maintaining these tools.
https://github.com/oasis-open/emergency-emf#oasis-tc-open-repository-emergency-emf
Week Four
Community and IAEM Motivations
Have you ever received a wireless emergency alert during a real emergency? There's a good chance CAP or EDXL was behind it. Tell us about it in your comments.
Every open standard and open source tool that we've highlighted during National Emergency Management Awareness Month, including CAP, EDXL, and the EMF toolkit, was built through open collaboration among practitioners, vendors, and government stakeholders. The Emergency Management TC members want to thank you all for the privilege of advancing this important work!
Want to connect with the OASIS Emergency Management TC? Find Elysa Jones, EM TC Chair, and members of the TC at booth # TBD at the IAEM Conference in Long Beach, California, from 6-12 November