Industry Canada Emergency Telecommunications - Reference Documents

You will find in this section some useful reference documents:

• 9-1-1
• Disaster Communications
• Legal Documents, Agreements, Conventions, etc., affecting Emergency Telecommunications
• Priority Access
• Public Alerting
• Telecommunications Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Other Useful Documents

Notice: Industry Canada (Emergency Telecommunications) does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external sites.

Disaster Communications

• Disaster Communications Manual (UN ReliefWeb Website)
• Where There Is No Telephone (UN ReliefWeb Website)

Legal Documents, Agreements, Conventions, etc., affecting Emergency Telecommunications

• Canadian Emergencies Act (Department of Justice Website)
• Canadian Emergency Preparedness Act (Department of Justice Website)
• Telecommunications Act (Department of Justice Website)
• Text of the Tampere Convention on Emergency Telecommunications - 1998 (UN ReliefWeb Website)

Priority Access

• Canadian High Probability of Completion: Feasibility Study
• Canadian Wireless Priority Service: Preliminary Study
• Description of an international emergency preference scheme (IEPS) - Recommendation E.106 Internet Draft (IEPS Web Site)
• National Emergency Arrangement for Telecommunications #1 (Priority Access for Dialing)
• Wireless Priority Service (WPS)

Public Alerting

• Alberta Emergency Public Warning System Brochure (Alberta Government Website)
• AMBER Alert Handbook (Alberta Solicitor General Website)
• DC Implements New Citizen Emergency Notification System (Washignton D.C.Website)
• Federal Communications Commission Emergency Alert System (EAS) Fact Sheet (FCC Website)
• Finland's Ministry of the Interior - Report on the Workshop on Information to the Public - Warning and Alarm System, Technical Aspects
  Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
  (European Union Website)
• Partnership for Public Warning Newsletter (Partnership for Public Warning Web site)
• Partnership for Public Warning's Reports and Articles Section (Many useful documents, not limited to public alerting)
• United Kingdom's National Steering Committee on Warning and Informing the Public
  Interim Report November 2001
  Progress Report July 2002
  (UK Resilience Website)
• Public Alert: Delivers Emergency All-Hazard Warnings, Everywhere, All the Time.The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)- (United States)

Telecommunications Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Creating Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures: The Case of Brazil (ITU Website)
• Creating Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures: Canadian Case Study (ITU Website)
• Creating Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures: Netherlands Case Study (ITU Website)
• Creating Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures: Korean Case Study (ITU Website)
• Discussion Paper on the National Critical Infrastructure Assurance Program (NCIAP) (OCIPEP Website)
• US National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace - Draft (White House Website)

9-1-1

• Alberta E9-1-1 Advisory Association - Wireless 9-1-1 Trial Report (CWTA Website)
• Ontario 9-1-1 Advisory Board - Wireless Enhanced 9-1-1 Trial Report (April 2002) (CWTA Website)
• Wireless E9-1-1 Fact Sheet (CWTA Website)

Other Useful Documents

• Goods for Emergency Use Remission Order
• D8-Remissions and Temporary Importation (CCRA Website)