ECDC relevant diseases outbreaks across Europe.
It is possible to provide a web based text messaging system that will allow each member state to manage, control and execute the delivery of text messages within their own State or across the whole of the European Union.
The benefits
The primary benefit of text messaging is the dissemination of information is the ability to distribute time critical information effectively, and with an immediacy not achievable using traditional telephone or email cascades. Vital, current information can be delivered to each relevant party or group of parties directly into a mobile handset. Text messaging is being used extensively within a number of different sectors in the context of crisis management. messages can be uploaded as quickly as 50 recipients per second and the messages will be received within minutes. A delivery confirmation is also provided. In the event of an emergency, considerable strain on cellular networks often results in failure to make or receive calls. As text messaging is initiated and controlled through the web, the success rate for delivery via text is much higher as text messaging uses a tiny porttion of the cellular netwrok bandwidth. Text relayed information is quicker, more reliable and extremely cost effective.
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Text Messaging - Management and Practice
When time is critical there is no better way to instantly contact a large group of individuals to alert them to an outbreak as well as provide regular updates as situations develop and change. Text messaging is also a very effective way of managing response and implementing action. By utilising the Text Messaging Centre’s (TMC’s) hierarchy control system the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) can develop a network across the Union. Each Member State appoints an administrator who has direct access from any web based computer using HTTPS security and password access. When a Member State reports an outbreak to the central administrator all relevant recipient groups in each Department for the Management of Communicable Diseases will be alerted ensuring that all relevant information is both assimilated and disseminated. The ECDC can retain full control of the management of recipient groups, the exact content and timing in the release of information, so that they can determine exactly who receives what information and when they receive it, or allow each member state to manage and control their own data, and therefore allowing member states to have access to all of the groups for the purpose of texting. The TMC system works as a very effective two-way communication vehicle and is equally effective in less time-critical applications. For example: Brent Council with whom we have worked very closely with over the last few years, use text messaging in a wide range of contexts such as food alert warnings, text reminders for Council tax payments or prompts for waste collection. In any event we would envisage working with you to develop and adapt our system to meet your exact requirements.
Peter Tanner, Managing Director TMC
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