If you are interested in the issues discussed on this blog and you will be in the Washington, D.C. area on Friday, I recommend a panel discussion, “Citizen Preparedness: Harnessing an Engaged Public”. The event is sponsored by George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI). It is the fourth and final event in HSPI’s Presidential Transition Roundtable Series – “Thinking Anew: Security Priorities for the Next Administration”.
The panel will take place on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m in Room 405 at George Washington University’s Marvin Center (800 21st Street, NW).
Featured presentations at this event will be given by Amanda Ripley, author of the must-read The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes, and Andy Carvin, Senior Product Manager for Online Communities at National Public Radio, who has been a leader in developing social media during disasters. Follow-up commentary will be provided by Jan Lane, HSPI’s Deputy Director and an expert in preparedness.
If you are interested in attending, RSVP to hspi@gwu.edu or at (202) 994-0986. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. If you cannot be there in person, you can follow the panel on Twitter (Username: HSPI). That’s what I will be doing; I had hoped to participate in this event, but I will unable to be there. Whether you are able to attend the panel or not, you might want to take a look at the HSPI’s citizen preparedness page, which has a lot of resources on the topic.
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1 New Study On Improving Citizen “Hometown Security” // Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 pm
[...] It is co-written by David Kaufman and Robert Bach from CNA. Kaufman mentioned the study at the preparedness forum, which was reported on the Institute’s Twitter feed where I learned about [...]
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