JITTEIS featured in joint EPA - NIEHS Conference on Environmental Justice

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Worker Education and Training Program, in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agnecy, hosted the 2010 Conference on Environmental Justice, Air Quality, Goods Movement and Green Jobs. Attended byEPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Administrator, the conference addressed outreach to vulnerable populations. Cesar Bandera presented an update on the demographics of cell phone multimedia consumers, and on the use of JITTEIS for outreach and sensor data collection, both EPA priorities http://qik.com/video/4619471(thanks to NIEHS WETP Program Director Chip Hughes for practicing what he preaches).

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Cell Podium displays at TCIP 2010

Cell Podium demonstrated its mobile multimedia broadcast service at the 2010 Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness Conference hosted by DHHS, DOD, and DOJ in Philadelphia. At their booth, Cell Podium staff described and demonstrated the commercial version of the Just-In-Time Training for Emergency Incidents System to emergency responders and heads of federal agencies.

 

 

 

 

 

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JITTEIS deployed at the Liberty RadEx

Philadelphia hosted this week the largest radiological terrorism training exercise in US history, with over one thousand participants from every relevant federal agency, state and local response agencies, and observers from five foreign countries. The Liberty RadEx was designed to evaluate the coordination of participants, and their response time to the many "surprises" programmed by the exercise planners (e.g., compromised level-C PPE and contamination of municipal water). At the request of NIH and EPA, JITTEIS was deployed at the Unified Command Center to push just-in-time safety training and logistics videos to the cell phones of all safety officers at all venues including subway stations, water treatment plants, and Navy yards. JITTIES successfully interoperated with diverse mobile devices including personal and issued phones with and without data plans and web browsers. JITTEIS staff also demonstrated a quick turn-around time to requests for the creation of new videos from safety officers in the Unified Command and out in the field. In total, JITTEIS pushed 24 videos to every cell phone enrolled at the exercise.