Back to Great Hall South4:30 PM - 4:40 PM PDT
Burning down data walls in the US Fire Service and BeyondGreat Hall South · Conference Day #1
My team at FSRI recently overhauled how all firefighters in the US report data with NERIS (https://neris.fsri.org/faqs). I want to share insights I gained into how centralization and the resulting enshittification has played out in fire software and how NERIS hasn’t fully solved the problem. I’d like to encourage more people to build fire (and other niche) software and create an open ecosystem of interoperable tools where fire department data ownership is at its heart and outline some opportunities and resources.
If time permits I may very quickly reference similar initiatives like FHIR and open banking.
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