What is First Net? And Why We Need To Care?

03/07/19 • 32 min

This week we are talking communications with First Net. You may have heard of this partnership between the FCC and ATT to provide priority cell and other communications avenues to first responders and other public safety professionals, however, do you know how it works and why? Well we are about to find out.
Guest Bio
David Buchanan
David Buchanan is the Executive Director of Public Safety Advocacy (PSA) for the First Responder Network Authority. Dave leads the PSA Division, including planning and execution of all engagements, consultation and outreach to local, state, Tribal and Federal public safety personnel and entities.
Dave started at FirstNet in 2013 as the Director of Consultation. He was amongst the first ten employees hired and designed and executed the state consultation program, resulting in 56 states and territories opting-in to FirstNet in 2017.
Dave has more than 25 years of Executive and Legislative branch experience, with an expertise in communications, strategic planning, program management, public affairs and public advocacy campaigns, and a focus on stakeholder collaboration and relationships.
In particular, Dave has extensive contact and experience with public safety agencies and executives at the federal, state, local and tribal level. Since 1997, have lead programs, initiatives, and activities that are focused on supporting public safety and improving public safety communications.
Prior to FirstNet, served as Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, and External Affairs Officer for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at DOJ, working to support the nation’s 18,000 state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. Dave started his career on Capitol Hill, working for nearly 10 years for two members of Congress, serving as legislative director and director of two campaigns. Led effort to create the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus and served as its first staff director.
Aislynn Cannon Turner
Aislynn Turner is a Senior Public Safety Advisor at the FirstNet Responder Network Authority. She began working in emergency management with the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department in 2011, where she wrote disaster plans and helped support ESF #2 (Communications) and planning operations. She continued this work with a homeland security consulting firm, Constant and Associates, until moving to Atlanta in early 2014, when she began working for Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) as their FirstNet Program Manager, just in time for Snowmageddon 2014. Since then, Aislynn has developed a passion for connecting responders through broadband communications and is excited about bringing FirstNet to public safety. She has an MPA from USC and a BA in Public Policy from Duke University.
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Special Release: The Future of Emergency Notification

This is a special edition of EM Weekly. It is the first of series of webinar-based discussion panels that we have planned to the EM community and it is completely free for you and the guests on the panel. Some webinars are 45 minuet ads about a product that you may or may not have any interest in. Here at EM Weekly we wanted to bring you an entire different experience a more interactive experience. You get to engage in the conversation as it is going on. No boring PowerPoints and Like I said no product sales pitch at the end.
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Enjoy The Future of Emergency Notification with special guests Kelly McKinney, Steven Kuhr, Vic Merjanian and hosted by Todd DeVoe
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Using Social Media to Connect to the Community

This week we are talking about the growing app Nextdoor. This app brings social media to the neighborhood it has some unique features that are making this app the fastest growing social media app used by public safety and the community.
Guest Bio
Joseph Porcelli currently serves as a Public Agency Lead and “Professional Neighbor” for Nextdoor. In this role, Joseph focuses on providing engagement strategies to aid government partners utilizing Nextdoor’s free government interface to build stronger, safer, and more resilient communities. Some of Joseph’s most notable partnerships successes are with the Chicago Fire Department, NYC Office of Emergency Management, and the White House’s 21st Century Community Policing Data Initiative.
Before joining Nextdoor, Joseph established the Community Engagement consulting practice at GovDelivery which created Community.FEMA.gov, served as the nation's first Community Engagement Strategist for the Department of Homeland Security, and worked in the Neighborhood Watch Unit of the Boston Police Department.
Joseph believes the well-being of society depends on the diversity and the strength of bonds we make with our neighbors. His experience neighboring has shown him that our neighborhoods are strongest and neighbors are happiest when we are connected, in communication, and in service to each other.
In his free time, Joseph experiments with ways neighbors can be of service to each other and he shares the stories of his neighboring adventures on the Nextdoor blog and his twitter account @JosephPorcelli.
Major media publications such as Business Week and National Public Radio have featured Joseph's work as a great neighbor, and he has been a panelist at gatherings such as the Ford Hall Forum and CEO's for Cities.
Joseph received a BA in marketing, business management at Saint Michael’s College
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Website: https://nextdoor.com/
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