EM online: Australian Emergency Management Knowledge Hub

Australian Emergency Management Institute

The Australian Emergency Management Knowledge Hub was launched in November 2012 and is a new interactive website for the emergency management sector and the community.

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www.emknowledge.gov.au

Screenshot of Australian Emergency Management Knowledge Hub website

The Knowledge Hub is packed with features.

There is an Australian disaster event database that contains records of natural and non-natural disasters within Australia dating back to 1753. And it’s searchable!

There’s a clearing house of research and information useful to the EM sector, including online repositories, research papers, journal articles, reports and manuals. And it’s searchable!

There’s a multimedia area where libraries of audio, video and image across a wide range of disasters are available. And it’s searchable!

The news area has cross-sectoral discussion forums and new media collaboration tools such as Twitter. Users can see latest discussions, contribute resources, share information and interact.