Green RIG and EM activities

The Horizon's Green RIG and emergency management team will be working together on a couple of activities in the next few months.

Evan will be accompanying the RIG to the Field Days in Hamilton next week. Our earthquake cubes will be front-and-centre with the other Regional Council display material. Our cubes are sufficiently generic that they can be used anywhere in the country.

In July, the RIG will be heading to Parliament to the forum run by the Minister of Civil Defence for the CDEM Group chairs and CEG chairs. We'll be parked on the forecourt of the Beehive for the day and will demonstrate our ability to deploy a mobile EOC using the Green RIG as the hub. Our mobile office and PABX will also be deployed - the office will be fully operational through the RIG's satellite connection but the PABX will be for demo purposes only (we won't ask Telecom to sling lines into the RIG for the day). We'll also show off the GPS camera and how we can send photos from the field, use of Microsoft Groove, and Google Earth. Our earthquake cubes will also be on display.