 My name is Elisa Jones. I'm the chair of the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee. Fifteen years ago we developed the common alerting protocol, which is a data standard for the encapsulation of alerts, which is being used all over the world now. And we have the opportunity here at the Global Emergency Telecommunications Conference to study that standard and promote it. The Global Emergency Telecommunications Conference is very important because it brings together telecommunication providers from all over the world and many different countries to talk about their issues with regard to ICTs, information, communications, and technologies that support early warning and disaster management.