Emergency information management system

A wide-area emergency information management system comprising:

• a content authoring module for preparation of digital content for delivery in response to a predetermined class of incident to selected recipients;
• a security/authentication module for authenticating the digital content received from the content authoring module for distribution and for authenticating the selected recipients;
• a policy management system coupled to the content authoring module and to the security/authentication module for managing content distribution;
• a broadcast module for securely distributing said digital content only to authenticated selected recipients authorized to receive the digital content;
• a logging and reporting module for maintaining records related to delivery of the digital content;
• and
• a plurality of receiver applications capable of communicating with the broadcast module to receive the digital content, each receiver application including
• means for securely caching the digital content received from the broadcast module;
• means for decrypting the digital content and delivering it to an authorized user of the receiver application in response to a control file directive;
• and
• means for reporting user activity back to the logging/reporting facility to confirm delivery of the authenticated digital content to the selected recipients.