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EMN was successfully piloted by the Ontario Ministry of Health as the ‘Canadian Emergency Network’ to assist, manage and coordinate emergency services for the G8 and G20 Summits in Canada in June 2010. These two major international events involved the protection of thirty of the world’s most influential national leaders as well as maintaining emergency services to the communities that surrounded the venues of the two Summit meetings.
More than 10,000 personnel operating from 15 control centres spread over an area of more than 50,000 square kilometres were involved in the 5-day 24-hour exercise.

The pilot proved convincingly that the Internet is a robust and reliable foundation for sharing emergency information as well as critical spatial information among all the agencies involved.

Significantly, the entire operation was run through a host computer facility in Melbourne, Australia – some 16,000 kms away from the two Summit meetings.

The participants received minimal training to test the simplicity of the network.
In fact, the special team of 75 emergency specialists who were assembled to pilot the emergency network, overwhelmingly and quickly embraced the Emergency Management Network solution.

The EMN system provides a Public Registration form so that members of the public can register their details to receive relevant information concerning any incident or emergency.

The module, which can be applied to any website, also enables local community organisations to create a Special Public Community Register to cover people with special needs who may need to be contacted before, during or after an incident or emergency (e.g.: People with limited mobility, and the aged). Once these details are registered, information can be broadcast to the relevant people, depending on their special needs.

The EMN Community Portal is an optional feature enabling members of the public to send information (e.g.; first-hand reports and observations of an incident or emergency such as the spread and speed of a bushfire) to various organisations/departments/centre in a controlled manner. This public-input information is stored in a separate area where it can be reviewed and filtered by an authoritative person and, where necessary, transferred to the relevant emergency organisation, department or control centre.