Europeans stress emergency communication interoperability
ORCHESTRA is an EU-funded project aiming to develop an IT architecture that defines how proprietary IT systems can interact
One lesson of 9/11, Katrina, and other disasters is that incompatible IT systems make it extremely difficult for public and private agencies to collaborate in managing and mitigating such disaters’ risks effectively. The lesson has not been lost on Europeans who deal with planning for emergency situations, and groundbreaking European research is helping IT systems sing in tune.
José Esteban, an operations manager at Atos Originin Spain, coordinates ORCHESTRA, an EU-funded project aiming to develop an IT architecture that defines how proprietary IT systems can interact. Government regulatory authorities, and various research, educational, and consulting organizations were among the first to endorse ORCHESTRA. “You can’t expect everyone to throw away their legacy systems and invest huge resources into a common IT infrastructure,” explains Esteban. “ORCHESTRA allows all these different systems to interoperate with the minimum of investment.”
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