The AFAC Chief Information Officers (CIO) Group develops and drives strategies that lead to improved Information Communications and Technology (ICT) interoperability between AFAC members, stakeholders and within the greater Australasian emergency management industry. The group is dedicated to learning from and assisting each other in developing cost effective ICT solutions.
The CIO Group plays a key role in relation to a number of AFAC Goals and Objectives as outlined in its Strategic Plan 2008-2015. Taking a standards based approach the group has so far been responsible for the introduction of a national standard Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and a national standard, procedure and technical framework for exchanging information between peer-to-peer Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) platforms (ICEMS).
Over time the group wishes to establish a framework of technical standards that are used by the fire and emergency services sector to deliver seamless services to the community, in an interoperable context. The Group is keen to continue to explore areas where they can collaborate on the development of solutions that are nationally consistent.
As executive personnel from across member agencies, they are currently considering strategic issues such as spatial information management and innovation; mobile computing & communications development and information architecture design and development.
