CiviGuard goes to Washington DC

A few weeks ago, we had the distinct pleasure of meeting with members of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (SICP).  It was an incredible opportunity to meet with some leading policy stakeholders who value and understand the importance of supporting innovative solutions to real-world problems.

We spent a great deal of time prepping for the meeting – harping on every word of the presentation and fixating on ensuring everything connected to technology functioned as it should. Murphy’s Law was clearly ever present in our minds.

As a coordinating body, SICP brings together different groups from different agencies to help direct and create new partnerships which may not have been realized otherwise. CiviGuard’s meeting with members of the SICP team enabled us to discuss the critical importance of modernizing and improving America’s emergency alert notification capability while leveraging new and emerging technologies.

Expecting to have a meeting which would be time constrained to ten minutes, we were delighted by the amount of time the SICP team afforded us.  We walked into the meeting understanding that we were meeting with individuals that didn’t need an explanation of the problem space but were most likely interested in ideas, new avenues, and innovations which could address the space itself. Our primary purpose was to be a thought leader and provide an industry perspective on how best to move forward.

As a result driven and bottom-up entity ourselves, we were thoroughly impressed to see that SICP was truly focused on fostering innovation to positively impact and achieve lasting progress to some of this nation’s most daunting challenges. That grand tasking is not only part of SICPs mission statement; it’s also a fundamental tenant of the work we do at CiviGuard in making Emergency Communication 2.0 a reality…