Petition Establish a phone alert system for national emergencies/announcements.

The Government should design and create a phone alerting system for national emergencies and announcements. During COVID-19 this could have helped create clarity and improve the speed of disseminating information. The Government looked into this in 2012 and decided not to implement it due to costs.

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Had this system been in place at the start of this crisis, people across the country could have received announcements directly to mobile phones/devices across, instead of having to wait for announcements on TV. The Netherlands used their own system to do exactly this, and passed information regarding social distancing.

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Date closed 27 January 2021
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