CrisisGo is a mobile group communication system that rockets into a mobile emergency management toolset. CEO Jim Spicuzza, Co-Founder of SchoolCenter and CTO Songwei Ma, of ZTE and Bell Labs have joined together to make people safer everywhere. CrisisGo is the only multi-role mobile crisis toolset in the world. Currently CrisisGo is in over 100 school districts in the US and growing rapidly.
Problem
People are not aware that an emergency is ongoing, do not know how to communicate once an emergency is in progress and fail to have the information they need to keep themselves and others safe. Seconds make a difference in an emergency and if people are notified by personal phone calls, emails or mass notification, the delay in those systems can lead to more injuries or death. People are not communicating during the emergency and failing to get all the important information to the commanders of the incident puts everyone at higher risk. Emergencies plans are still in three-ring binders and are never accessible.
Solution
CrisisGo mobile emergency response system takes the organizations existing plan and makes it digital, then publishes the plan to the organizations computers (Windows and Mac) and mobile devices including smartphones and pads on IOS and Android operating systems. CrisisGo provides the three key elements missing in today’s emergency management systems. They are:
1. Fast alerting and two-way communication so all stakeholders are warned early of a potential crisis and are connected to ongoing communication that can keep them safe.
2. People have access to important response information that directs a person to take the correct steps to respond to the incident including checklist steps, maps emergency contacts and rosters of people that are in harms way.
3. A single app for individual’s safety at school, home, work or as a citizen.
CrisisGo Enterprise offers the most complete mobile risk management system in the market. CrisisGo moves organizations emergency plans from three ring binders to smartphones and pads, allowing people in the organization to have immediate access to the information they need to respond to any crisis, large or small.
CrisisGo is built on an enterprise multimedia communications platform, allowing staff the ability to communicate during a crisis. When staff are able to text, voice to text, send audio, images and video to management, the team can have confidence that the messages are distributed to those that can help them. CrisisGo allows for audible alerts, panic buttons, tips and bullying reporting. Students have a single daily message system for communicating with the staff, and the communication system transforms into an emergency tool kit when needed.
CrisisGo web portal provides the easy set of tools to maintain the plan and publish update at the push of the publish button.
CrisisGo Lite provides a communication platform for every day use by the organization with alerts, panic buttons, tips and reporting. CrisisGo lite is required when groups membership is over 15 members in a single group. Groups are unlimited.
CrisisGo provides a free set of tools for people to be safe at home. Connect with your family members and communicate with people in groups you establish. You or your family can request help in time of beed by setting off a panic button if someone close to you has an emergency. GPS locations are sent to members of the family circle with messages, so someone can assist.
Jim Spicuzza
Prior to starting CrisisGo, Jim created SchoolCenter in 1999 and grew the company to over 6,000 US schools until acquired in 2011. While at SchoolCenter, Mr. Spicuzza successfully developed SchoolCenter Pro, an innovative approach to education content management. In 1995 Mr. Spicuzza created Midwest Internet, a dial-up software company with 3 partners and it was sold to OneMain.com in March 1999.
Songwei Ma
Songwei Ma, Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1998. Prior to CrisisGo, Songwei joined ZTE telecom equipment Company in 1998. During the work in ZTE, she successfully led the R&D team to design and develop a series of broadband access equipment used in over 60 countries, owning a 20% market share in the worldwide market, and brought billions of dollars of revenue to the company. She joined Research & Innovation Center of Alcatel in 2005 and then went to Bell labs when Alcatel and Lucent merged. At Bell, she led a research team on Fixed & Mobile Converged networks, focusing on contributing innovative techniques on multimedia and applications. She left Bell Labs in 2010, and worked as CTO of Suzhou Dalian. She has authored over 30 patents.