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NENA is proud to announce that the association's application to become a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has been approved. ETSI is a leading standardization organization for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards fulfilling European and global market needs, with a mission focused on providing platforms for interested parties to work together to produce standards for ICT systems and services that are used globally. "NENA's participation in ETSI is a natural outcome of the increasing international adoption of NENA's i3 family of standards for NG9-1-1, including serving as the basis for the European Emergency Number Association's NG1-1-2 requirements and ETSI's EMTEL specifications for emergency calling core services," said NENA's Technical Director, Brandon Abley. "By participating directly in ETSI standards work, NENA can help to harmonize standards internationally and ensure an ecosystem with a global economy of scale, interoperability across international boundaries, and a high standard of emergency calling standards for the public and emergency services in every nation."
Learn, Collaborate, & Contribute at the NENA NG9-1-1 Standards & Best Practices Conference! With your peers from across the 9-1-1 universe, you’ll discuss and work to address the most pressing NG-related issues, including: GIS and NG-data needs; location services and accuracy; interoperability; telecommunicator SOPs; procurement and transition planning; security and resiliency; social media; apps and the Internet of Things; multimedia messaging and accessibility; disaster planning; staffing, hiring, and training; and the evolution of 9-1-1 center supervision and management. Click here to see all of the review, workshop, and roundtable sessions happening at #NENASBP! Click here to download the event brochure. No other event provides you with the opportunity to shape the future of 9-1-1 and impact public safety for decades to come! Don’t miss your chance to be part of it! Learn more and register. Stress, Wellness, & Resiliency: A NENA Critical Issues Forum Join us on January 23-24 in Austin, TX for this first-of-its-kind event to learn about the mental-, physical-, and organizational-health processes and programs you can use to enable the much-needed change in our community’s mindset, skillset, and culture as it relates to mental health and hygiene. During this interactive day-and-a-half program, you’ll gain the tools and resources you need to keep your team healthy and performing at their best. Topics include:
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9-1-1 Goes to Washington (#NENAGTW) brings you and hundreds of your fellow 9-1-1 professionals together with government leaders in our nation's capital to address today's most pressing 9-1-1 and emergency communications issues. #NENAGTW is the only event where you learn about the policy challenges facing 9-1-1 and then take immediate action to address them through dialogue with your elected and appointed officials. Join us in Washington for a dynamic, interactive program where you receive:
It’s time to renew your NENA membership! You can do it in just a few quick steps: 1. Simply log in to the NENA website. And don’t forget, group memberships are a great way to share all that NENA has to offer with everyone in your organization! And if you're retired (and have been a NENA member for at least twelve years), you can apply for our new "Retired" member category. Click here for details. Training Update
Using the New NENA PSAP Registry
Wednesday, January 15 | 3PM Eastern (live) or On-Demand FREE! Click here to register!
Presenter: Brandon Abley, ENP - NENA CEUs: Attend this webinar and receive one-half ENP re-certification point towards the ten-point maximum for NENA courses in the Professional Development CEU/Course Credits section. Can't attend on the 15th? Register now and you will receive an email after the live presentation with instructions for accessing the on-demand webinar archive. Webinar Access Info: Dial-in and web-access details provided automatically via email upon registration. The NENA Education Advisory Board seeks engaging and enthusiastic instructors to support NENA's Education & Training program. If you are a subject-matter expert in 9-1-1 operations, technology, database, or other 9-1-1-related fields and you have a proven track record as an excellent instructor, then you are invited to help NENA provide exceptional training across North America.
Instructors may be asked to teach up to ten times per year. Attendance at annual development and training events is required, normally one weekend per year. Adjuncts are paid on a per-day-of-instruction basis with highly-competitive compensation rates. For consideration, please submit the following to NENA's Education Director, Ty Wooten:
See documents below for full requirements: Applications are due by February 7. 01.13.20 | 9-1-1 Customer Service: Takes Seconds, Saves Minutes | Des Plaines, IL | Register Check out the NENA Education Calendar to see additional upcoming classes! Document Announcements
The NENA Managing & Monitoring NG9‑1‑1 Information Document provides guidance to 9‑1‑1 authorities at all levels on considerations and best practices for adoption in managing and monitoring NG9‑1‑1. The topics covered are comprehensive and general guidance is given to assist Authorities in planning for NG9‑1‑1 as the authority transitions from legacy 9‑1‑1 to a full implementation of NG9‑1‑1. Members of the Working Group can download the document and submit comments here by selecting "Add a Comment" from the "Edit" icon. All others can download the document and submit comments here by selecting "Add a Comment" from the "Document Actions" icon. Please complete all requested data and click "Save," or, if submitting multiple comments, click "Save and Add Another." If you are providing editorial comments (such as typos, grammatical errors, style/numbering errors, or incorrect references/links to documents), then please document them in one single comment and list the page and line number(s) for each. All comments are due by 11:59PM Eastern on January 31, 2020. You may contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.
Washington Briefing
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shared the following information as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States and Iran’s historic use of cyber offensive activities to retaliate against perceived harm. Foremost, CISA recommends organizations take the following actions: 1. Adopt a state of heightened awareness. This includes minimizing coverage gaps in personnel availability, more consistently consuming relevant threat intelligence, and making sure emergency call trees are up to date. 2. Increase organizational vigilance. Ensure security personnel are monitoring key internal security capabilities and that they know how to identify anomalous behavior. Flag any known Iranian indicators of compromise and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for immediate response. 3. Confirm reporting processes. Ensure personnel know how and when to report an incident. The well-being of an organization’s workforce and cyber infrastructure depends on awareness of threat activity. Consider reporting incidents to CISA to help serve as part of CISA’s early warning system (see Contact Information section below). 4. Exercise organizational incident response plans. Ensure personnel are familiar with the key steps they need to take during an incident. Do they have the accesses they need? Do they know the processes? Are your various data sources logging as expected? Ensure personnel are positioned to act in a calm and unified manner. Click here to read the full alert bulletin. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has launched a new webpage for the public and law enforcement to report blocked highway-rail grade crossings. The new FRA Blocked Crossing webpage requests specific information from users reporting blocked crossings—including date, time, location and duration. The agency expects it will take an average of three minutes for users to complete the report. FRA notes that this should only be done in a manner that is consistent with the safe operation of a vehicle. FRA will use the information collected to gain a more complete picture of where, when and for how long such obstructions occur at the nation’s approximately 130,000 public grade crossings, and what impacts result from this. FRA will share the information with stakeholders, using it to help facilitate local solutions to blocked crossing issues. Volunteers Wanted
There is currently a strong focus by regulators in North America on combating nuisance calls, including robocalling and illegitimate caller ID spoofing, using caller authentication techniques based on standards developed by ATIS and the IETF. While published standards address mechanisms for caller authentication in general, they do not specifically consider caller authentication in the context of 9-1-1 calls or callback calls. There are new standards development activities underway to address the application of caller ID spoofing mitigation techniques to 9-1-1 and callback calls. It is critical that public safety have input into these standards development activities to ensure that the operational needs of 9‑1‑1 authorities and PSAPs are supported by the standards that ultimately get generated.This working group will address topics including:
Featured Job Openings
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Did you know that NENA has a great way to recognize telecommunicators who have gone above and beyond? It’s called the TC Spotlight! If you know of a TC that has done an exceptional job while handling a call, is devoted to his or her career, is a mentor to others, a great cheerleader for your agency, or just plain rocks, then we would like to help celebrate them! Share their awesome talents with the rest of the world by sending an email to tccaucus@nena.org and letting us know the nominee's name, years of service, current agency and position, and why he or she is being nominated.
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