If you have ever seen the cartoon of the king brushing off a machine gun salesman to go fight his war with a sword, that is an apt description of IT in many NGOs.
CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) and other standards are easily adopted and implemented, adn would save NGOs millions of dollars, reduce their dependance on the IT group (usually 10 years behind), allow sharing of resources, and save lives through much better situational awareness.
Why aren't they doing it? See para 1. There are a million excuses, but no good answers except for the lack of long term vision when you are crisis driven. I expect the ituation to change over the next year as cloud based tools become easier to use, more widely available, and utilized by budget and speed conscious leaders.
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