How you can help

This page describes some simple ways you can help CARM Implementers Forum before the next tragedy/ crisis.

 

By and large, the CARM-IF team are technical professionals and help in the areas shown below will allow progress and create impact to compliment the technical work already underway.

 

Click one a button below to see suggestions in your area of interest/ expertise.  The suggestions are organized for time investment more or less than 3 hours.  We hope that by having many people invest a bit of time, we can make progress in these areas more quickly.

 

Community Engagement
Content Creation
Technology Discovery and Alignment
Grants, Member Growth

Community Engagement

CARM-IF is committed to sharing the load and pooling investment and knowledge to improve public safety.  We are serious about a “by the people, for the people” approach.

Below are audiences that we are focused on engaging, and your insight, contacts and advice on how best to engage will greatly accelerate our progress.

Audiences:

Members of CARM-IF:    technology, P&C insurance, property owners and managers

End users:    schools, religious orgs, medical centers, transportation hubs, shopping/ dining

Advisors and fellow travelers:   first responders, legal, universities/ research labs

In 30 mins. to 3 hours, you can help by:

  • Suggest people to link with; make introductions via email
  • Describe best approach to engage audience
  • Explain value system of audience and how to map CARM into that
  • Express how CARM-IF can help an audience you are familiar with
  • Take a survey

Content Creation

In order to engage and activate critical audiences, we need to educate about benefits of the CARM solution.  One of our greatest challenges is to explain CARM capabilities in a way that inspires non-technical audiences.  Another is to anticipate and diffuse concerns, for example in area of privacy.

 Content needed:

  • “Corporate” templates
  • Whitepapers (2 pages)
  • Problem-solution papers (1-2 pages)
  • Webinars; proposal/ outline, storyboard, production

 

In 30 mins. to 3 hours, you can help by:

  • Tell the stories; several message formats
  • Suggest/ refine value proposition for audiences
  • Suggest critical elements for marketing to audiences 

3+ hours

  • Design templates for different collateral types
  • Confer with CARM architects and draft story about why privacy is not at risk
  • . . . . (will add more, later)

Technology

We have identified many threats, sensors to detect those threats and are planning to connect these via a resilient network to local and remote computing platforms.  Your expertise and insights about integrating and miniaturizing sensors and also applications to synthesize data into threat predictions would be invaluable.

In 30 mins. to 3 hours, you can help by:

  • Offer advice on technology that will help identify or predict threats
  • Suggest key contacts to make; offer to make introductions
  • Recommend companies who’s involvement is essential (or not)

3+ hours

  • Offer advice on technology that will help identify or predict threats
  • Suggest key contacts to make; offer to make introductions
  • Recommend companies who’s involvement is essential (or not)

    Grants, Membership

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    In 30 mins. to 3 hours, you can help by:

    • Research and create list of sources for grants
    • Propose companies as prospective members
    • Create template for typical grant request, based on your experience

     

    3+ hours

    • Draft grant request
    • Outline a “pitch” to prospective grant source
    • Review existing proposal materials and suggest modifications to improve success rate
    • Work with others to make proposal (grant or membership) to organizations