The Emergency Interoperability Consortium is made up of organizations that share the same goals for interoperable emergency communications. The Executive Committee leads the consortium which participates in educational and outreach activities to the public and federal communities on incident and emergency management issues. Many EIC members participate in the OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee which is responsible for the development of standards.

The Consortium's primary objectives are to:

• Create a national approach for data interoperability through an industry-government consortium
• Promote the development of Web services / XML data interoperability standards necessary to support the timely and accurate exchange of incident information throughout the Emergency Management community
• Ensure every American has appropriate access to whatever information they require - when and how they need it

Core areas of research and standards development include:

• Unified incident identification
• Accessibility and usage of emergency GIS data
• Notification methods and messaging
• Situational reporting
• Source tasking
• Asset and resource management

The EIC is committed to an open and transparent process, and welcomes the participation of private companies, non-profit organizations and public agencies.

Click here for the 2007 EIC MEMBERSHIP LIST.

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