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===Australia===

The Australian Government Standard for Common Alerting Protocol (CAP-AU-STD, 2012) was developed by a CAP-AU-STD stakeholder group comprising federal agencies [[Emergency Management Australia]], the [[Bureau of Meteorology]], [[Geoscience Australia|GeoScience Australia]], [[Department of Agriculture and Water Resources|Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry]] and the [[Department of Health (Australia)|Department of Health]], as well as a number of State Government authorities and emergency services agencies. The project was co-ordinated by the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department (Australian Emergency Management).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.em.gov.au|title=Pages - Australian Emergency Management|work=em.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govshare.gov.au/item-details/?rid=57|title=Common Alerting Protocol – Australia (CAP-AU-STD) - GovShare|work=govshare.gov.au}}</ref>

===Canada===

In Canada, a working group composed of public alerting practitioners and government agencies has developed a CAP Canadian Profile (CAP-CP) based on CAP but specialized to address the needs of Canadian public alerting stakeholders, such as bilingualism, geocoding for Canada, managed lists of locations and events, etc. The Canadian government has adopted CAP-CP for its [[National Public Alerting System]] (NPAS) project. The CAP‑CP working group, along with stakeholders and projects such as the [[Canadian Public Safety Operations Organization]] (CanOps) and Netalerts' Sarnia Lambton trial, are now working with and refining CAP‑CP for national application in Canada.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

CAP has been implemented for a small-scale, grassroots hazard information system in [[Sri Lanka]] following the [[2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami]]. This implementation was part of the "HazInfo Project", funded by Canada's [[International Development Research Centre]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lirneasia.net/projects/current-projects/evaluating-last-mile-hazard-information-dissemination-hazinfo/|title=Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination (HazInfo)|work=lirneasia.net}}</ref>

The province of [[Alberta]] adopted CAP as part of its [[Alberta Emergency Alert]] system. In March 2015, [[Alert Ready]], a national public warning system based upon CAP-CP, was officially launched. Participation in the system by all broadcasters and television providers is mandated by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Alerting Bulletin to Last Mile Distributors|url=https://alerts.pelmorex.com/download/public/Broadcaster%20Bulletin%202015-03-27.pdf|publisher=Pelmorex|accessdate=9 June 2015|format=PDF}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Alberta emergency system goes digital|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-emergency-system-goes-digital-1.993701|website=CBC News|accessdate=9 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=cbc-aeavoice>{{cite web|title=Digital alert system hard to decipher: critics|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/digital-alert-system-hard-to-decipher-critics-1.1032381|website=CBC News|accessdate=9 June 2015}}</ref>

===Germany===

The Federal Office for Citizen Protection and Disaster Support (Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, BBK) is working on an implementation based on CAP 1.2, which will allow for Internet-based access to data provided by the nationsnation's modular warning system MoWaS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbk.bund.de/DE/AufgabenundAusstattung/Krisenmanagement/WarnungderBevoelkerung/Warnmultiplikatoren/Warnmultiplikatoren_node.html|title=Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe - Warnmultiplikatoren|publisher=}}</ref> The development of MoWaS is based on the satellite-based warning system SatWaS from 2001, which only provides information to less than 150 state and media entities. In case no broadcast receiver, like a radio or television, is running nearby, the resulting warning effect of SatWaS would be severely limited, because many state-run emergency sirens have been left unmaintained or were dismantled altogether. ThisThe is oneuse of the issues, CAP support in MoWaS isshould hopedalleviate tothis alleviateproblem.

===Italy===

The Department of firefightersFirefighters, publicPublic rescueRescue and civilCivil defenceDefence ([http://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/Page.aspx?IdPage=5374 Dipartimento dei Vigili del Fuoco, del Soccorso Pubblico e della Difesa Civile] ) of the [[Ministry of Interior (Italy)|Italian Ministry of the Interior]] adopted the CAP protocol with two Ministerial Decrees in [http://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/ReturnDocument.aspx?IdDocumento=4859 2008] and [http://www.vigilfuoco.it/aspx/ReturnDocument.aspx?IdDocumento=4855 2011.] Since then, its 100 provincial control rooms, 18 regional control rooms and the Nationalnational control centre exchange a daily average of 25,000 CAP private messages concerning rescue operations in real time. As per the decrees, any emergency stakeholder in Italy which wants to exchange or share data with the Fire Corps in the course of large scale emergency or rescue operations has to adopt the CAP protocol.

As per the decrees, any emergency stakeholder in Italy which wants to exchange or share data with the Fire Corps in the course of large scale emergency or rescue operations has to adopt the CAP protocol.

The first use of CAP protocol in a civil protection activity hasin Italy beenwas recorded in 2009, in the aftermath of the [[Central Italy Earthquake]], when the Fire Corps exchanged data with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage to coordinate their efforts in designing and implementing provisional measures for monuments and historical buildings.

===United States===

According to a CAP 1.0 Fact Sheet,<ref>http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/CAP_Fact_Sheet</ref> CAP implementations have been demonstrated by agencies and companies including: [[United States Department of Homeland Security]]; [[National Weather Service]]; [[United States Geological Survey]]; [[California Office of Emergency Services]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edis.oes.ca.gov|title=Emergency Digital Information Service (EDIS)|work=ca.gov}}</ref> [[Virginia Department of Transportation]]; NDS, Ltd.; GeoDecisions, Inc.; Blue292; Warning Systems, Inc.; Comlabs, Inc.; mobileFoundations; Ship Analytics; AlertSense (formerly MyStateUSA); IEM, Inc.; Hormann America, Inc.; Oregon RAINS; Alerting Solutions, Inc. and others.

It is also mentioned by the [[Internet Society]] in its 2005 "Public Warning Network Challenge".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isoc.org/challenge/|title=The Internet Rises to the Challenge of Public Warning|work=isoc.org}}</ref>

In early 2005, the U.S.&nbsp;Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the [[Association of Public Television Stations]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apts.org|title=Association of Public Television Stations|work=apts.org}}</ref> demonstrated CAP-based "digital EAS" broadcasts over public television digital TV transmitters and satellite links in the [[Washington, D.C.]] area and nationwide.

CAP is the foundation technology for the planned "[[Integrated Public Alert and Warning System]]", an all-hazard, all-media national warning architecture being developed by DHS, the [[National Weather Service]] within NOAA, and the [[Federal Communications Commission]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-06-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629014918/http://www.fema.gov:80/emergency/ipaws/ |archivedate=2010-06-29 |df= }}</ref>

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