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Warning disseminator – definition

A disseminator is a person or institution that passes on information and thus contributes to its dissemination.

Warning disseminators pass on warning messages.

Warning disseminators are

  • authorities, organisations and enterprises (such as Deutsche Bahn),
  • all public broadcasting corporations and most of the private media companies,
  • internet and paging services as well as
  • app operators (e.g. of the warning apps NINA, KATWARN, BIWAPP),

    that forward the warning messages to the population.