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The First Annual US-Canada Enterprise Resiliency Experiment
The first annual Enterprise Resilience Experiment (ERE) was conducted as a collaborative effort between the Canada and U.S. on June 21, 2011. The Canada-U.S. Experiment ERE (CAUSE-ERE) was the first attempt to develop an approach to test and evaluate new technologies within an emergency management scenario. The CAUSE-ERE was based on a massive Cascadian earthquake that would disrupt the west coast of North America from Oregon through Vancouver, British Columbia.
The experiment was aimed at exploring the technology and collaboration opportunities between municipal, provincial (or state and local) and international jurisdictions through the development of a scenario based on a major earthquake in the Cascadian subduction zone off the coast of Oregon. From DRDC, a documentary around the process is being developed and covers the participation of a number of other organizations that provided support and solutions for the experiment, namely: Natural Resources Canada, ESRI Canada, GeoBC, Emergeo, Simon Fraser University (SFU), MyStateUSA and Planetworks Consulting.
The technologies included from Canada included:
• BCeMAP: An advanced browser based mapping and aggregation system used for Situational Awareness in BC and developed by ESRI Canada.
• MASAS: Multi Agency Situational Awareness System – a solution for sharing authoritative location-based situational awareness information, in near real time, within Canada’s emergency management community and across the border.
• CAP/ATOM Message Generator: a message generation tool that can simulation the generation of multiple messages from many sources to feed the MASAS hub and consuming systems.
• Emergeo mapping and FusionPoint: Crisis information management system providing simple logging and reporting, real-time data fusion, and geospatial information integration.
• AMECom: Advanced Mobile Emergency Communications Vehicle – A specialized vehicle capable of rapidly deploying advanced communications throughout regions of British Columbia and providing community communications and power support and cross-agency communication interoperation
• ETeam: The Provincial Incident Management system developed by NC4.
• Ushahidi: Crowd sourcing tool for gathering public information on major incidents.
• Hazus-MH: The FEMA methodology and tool set that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes and currently being Canadianized by Natural Resources Canada.
The technologies included from the U.S. included:
• Situational Assessment Mapper: takes pictures from a handheld device, geo-tags information, adds metadata and comments, saves information to a database, and displays on a web-based map
• Live Wall: allows communication between separate groups using an interactive video, audio, and a shared desktop environment
• Real Time Evaluation Planning Model (RTEPM): models vehicle evacuation routes
• Scalable Reasoning System (SRS) Social Networking Analysis: allows trending of social media information to be easily summaries and situational awareness to be enhanced
• Mobile Alerting: a research tool being used for building evacuation planning but was used in this case to support search and rescue
• Mobile Epiphany: a commercial capability quickly tailored for shelter induction and to support family re-unification after a disaster
The full article is available at:
http://www.theivac.org/content/first-annual-enterprise-resiliency-experiment
EmerGeo Completes First Tranche of Financing with SiS
Vancouver, B.C., – Vancouver, B.C. – December 29, 2011 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG) (“EmerGeo” or the “Company”), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, today announced that it has closed the first tranche of its previously announced private placement with SAI InfoSystem (India) Ltd. The company issued 3,333,333 common shares to SiS at a price of six cents per common share for gross proceeds of $200,000. The common shares are subject to a hold period expiring April 23, 2012.
In the second tranche, subject to disinterested shareholder and exchange approval, as well as other conditions of closing, SiS will subscribe for 60 million shares at a price of six cents per common share for gross proceeds of $3.6 million. Concurrently with completion of the second tranche, SiS will complete the acquisition of 5,572,728 common shares of the company held by four shareholders, including the founders of Emergeo’s emergency management business.
Upon completion of the second tranche, SiS will become a control person of the company and will hold 85 per cent of the issued and outstanding common shares of the company on an undiluted basis and up to 80 per cent of the common shares on a fully diluted basis. The company will seek disinterested shareholder approval of the private placement at its annual and special general meeting scheduled to be held on Jan. 17, 2012.
About EmerGeo
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint™ and emergency mapping applications are used to log, track and communicate critical information required by emergency and security personnel. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together data from dispatch, crisis management, mapping, camera and other third-party systems, providing a common operating picture. EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters and are proven effective in helping government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.
“Rick MacDonald”
Rick MacDonald, CEO
For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: (001) 604-681-0989
Facsimile: (001) 604-681-0079
Email: info
emergeo
com
Website: http://www.emergeo.com
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EmerGeo Speaking at India’s Largest ICT Event: e-India
Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India) – December 14-16, 2011 – Mr. Mike Morrow, President of EmerGeo Solutions Inc, has been invited to speak at India’s largest IT Conference to present the latest trends in “Technology for Safety, Security and Disaster Management”. Mike will join a prestigious panel of senior officials from government and industry.
The Fusionpoint crisis management and situational awareness software will also be on display at EmerGeo’s Partner’s exhibit booth: Sai Infosystem (India) Ltd (SiS is a Platinum sponsor).
This is the 7th edition of e-India, India’s largest Information Communication and Technology (ICT) three day conference beginning December 14 at Gandhinagar. Over 4,000 representatives from industry, government, academia and private sector, both from India and across the globe, will share the best practices for development here that will help shape the future of ICT landscape. The event is being co-organised by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of the Union Ministry of Communications & IT, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Center for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS). “The conference is one of the premier events focusing on the use of ICT for development. The department is proud to be associated with this initiative,” Department of Science and Technology Gujarat Additional Chief Secretary Ravi Saxena said, in a statement.
Event Location:
Mahatma Mandir
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
More conference information is available at http://eindia.eletsonline.com/.
EmerGeo Announces Transactions with SAI InfoSystems (India) Ltd.
Vancouver, B.C., – Vancouver, B.C. – November 15, 2011 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG) (“EmerGeo” or the “Company”), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, today announced that it has arranged and agreed to a series of transactions (the “Transactions”) by which SAI InfoSystems (India) Ltd. (“SIS”) will, subject to regulatory and shareholder approval and satisfactory due diligence, acquire 85% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company (the “Shares”) on an undiluted basis, and up to 80% of the Shares on a fully diluted basis. The Transactions will consist of i) a non-brokered private placement of 63,333,333 Shares at a price of $0.06 per Share for gross proceeds of $3,800,000.00, and ii) the purchase by SIS of an aggregate of 5,572,728 Shares (the “Vendors’ Shares”) from four shareholders of the Company for $0.0359 per share. The Company will use the net proceeds of the private placement to fund ongoing development and marketing of its FusionpointTM web-based crisis information management system and software.
The securities issued pursuant to the private placement will be subject to a four month statutory hold period.
SIS is an arm’s length unlisted public limited company based in Ahmedabad, India. Founded in 1992 by Mr. Sunil Kakkad, an electronics and communication engineer and entrepreneur, SIS is an information and communication technology company and systems integrator. It has direct operations in 17 Indian states and more than 100 support centres. It also has offices and operations in the United States. For further information about SIS, please refer to its website www.saicare.com.
If the Transactions are completed, SIS will become a “control person” pursuant to applicable securities laws and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV”). A “control person” is defined as any person that holds or is one of a combination of persons that holds a sufficient number of any of the securities of the Company so as to affect materially the control of the Company, or that holds more than 20% of the outstanding voting shares of the Company, except where there is evidence showing that the holder of those securities does not materially affect the control of the Company.
TSXV Policy 4.1 requires that disinterested shareholders approve a private placement if the number of shares to be issued may result in, or is part of a transaction that may result in, the creation of a new control person. The Company intends to seek disinterested shareholder approval of the Transactions at its annual and special general meeting scheduled to be held on December 21, 2011.
The private placement will be completed in two tranches. In the first tranche, SIS will subscribe for 3,333,333 Shares at a price of $0.06 per Share for gross proceeds of $200,000. As a result, SIS will acquire approximately 12.7% of the Company Shares on a fully diluted basis and Mr. Kakkad will be appointed to the Company’s board of directors. Completion of the first tranche is subject to TSXV acceptance but does not require disinterested shareholder approval. In the subsequent tranche, assuming all required approvals are obtained and subject to satisfactory due diligence, SIS will subscribe for 60,000,000 Shares at a price of $0.06 per Share for gross proceeds of $3,600.000.00. Concurrently with completion of the second tranche, SIS will complete the acquisition of the Vendors’ Shares.
A finder’s fee is payable on the private placement.
EmerGeo CEO Rick MacDonald commented: “We are very pleased to have SIS join the Company as a significant shareholder. SIS is a proven world leader in information technology and will provide immediate strength and credibility to our products and services.”
About EmerGeo
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint™ and emergency mapping applications are used to log, track and communicate critical information required by emergency and security personnel. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together data from dispatch, crisis management, mapping, camera and other third-party systems, providing a common operating picture. EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters and are proven effective in helping government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.
“Rick MacDonald”
Rick MacDonald, CEO
For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: (001) 604-681-0989
Facsimile: (001) 604-681-0079
Email: info
emergeo
com
Website: http://www.emergeo.com
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION
IN THE UNITED STATES. ANY FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS
RESTRICTION MAY CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF U.S. SECURITIES LAW.
Disclaimer. Certain of the statements made and information contained herein may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, information concerning the Company’s intentions with respect to the development of its business. Forward-looking information is based on the views, opinions, intentions and estimates of management at the date the information is made, and is based on a number of assumptions and subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated or projected in the forward-looking information (including the actions of other parties who have agreed to do certain things and the approval of certain regulatory bodies). Many of these assumptions are based on factors and events that are not within the control of the Company and there is no assurance they will prove to be correct. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information if circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable securities laws, or to comment on analyses, expectations or statements made by third parties in respect of the Company, its financial or operating results or its securities. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information.
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Abu Dhabi Police Creates GIS Center for Security
The Abu Dhabi Police are on the Road to a World-Class Enterprise GIS with EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint crisis management software a core part of the solution. The following excerpt comes from an article in Esri’s Fall 2011 Edition of ArcNews:
GIS solutions architect Mohamed Bisher Bashaireh, Abu Dhabi Police, stated “ADP used to generate separate reports from a variety of police legacy systems, manually compare all the spreadsheet and map reports, and try to develop actionable information from them. This process took a long time.” To overcome these manual data challenges, GIS Center for Security (GISCS) implemented EmerGeo Fusionpoint software from Esri Partner EmerGeo Solutions, Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. EmerGeo Fusionpoint is tightly integrated with the central GIS database served by ArcGIS for Server. In addition, GISCS’s crisis information management system includes software based on ArcGIS to integrate five legacy systems:
1. Command and control system for high-priority crimes
2. Automated vehicle location for monitoring crisis vehicles
3. Closed-circuit TV cameras for viewing live feeds around the city
4. Contingency and security plans for large-scale event and disaster planning
5. Human resources system for viewing specialized personnel information for deployment
The full article is available in an online version of ESRI’s ArcNews (Fall 2011) at:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall11articles/abu-dhabi-police-creates-gis-center-for-security.html

Fusionpoint Situation Map of a Fire Simulation Plume.
