We recently stumbled across this interesting article in The I Newspaper. The Chief Executive of the World Bank said the growing frequency of financial, economic and terror-related emergencies is becoming the "new normal" and will require a more agile response from politicians and businesses. Kristalina Georgieva believes w e are now at the point when shocks are more frequent. During a panel discussion at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia she said; "It u

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Organisations that deploy staff to work in high-threat environments will often use highly advanced (and expensive) technology to monitor and track their worker’s safety, but can it compete against the instant updates associated with social media? For many larger organisations, an Emergency Notification System is a popular investment – a piece of software that sends messages to staff members and reports back to the organisation their current safety status. In theory, this shou