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The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials said it’s launching “AppComm,” a website dedicated to public safety and emergency response apps for use by the public, app developers and first responders (http://bit.ly/ZKtTlj). APCO is creating AppComm “because it recognizes the importance of providing a platform that the public safety community can trust and rely upon to aggregate and develop the most effective apps for public safety and emergency response,” APCO said Tuesday. The website initially features 60 apps “selected by APCO staff that are intended to be representative of the value and diversity of existing public safety apps,” the group said. “For too long our nation’s public safety officials have been limited to using radios that are unable to perform some of the basic functions most of us expect on the phones we carry in our pockets,” said FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, responding to the announcement. “But now APCO’s Application Community, which is inspired by the work of the First Responder Network Authority, is providing a first glimpse at the power a nationwide wireless broadband network can deliver to our first responders."