Hell in a Handbasket
I’m not prone to hyperbole, so I feel a little uncomfortable in saying the world is going to hell in a handbasket – but some truths are uncomfortable. The evidence is everywhere you look. Climate change, digital and economic warfare, environmental degradation, all-out war and mass destruction… These and many other types of events are happening all […]
A Great Day for Canadian Public Safety Innovation
CounterCrisis Tech was pleased to participate in GCXpo 2025 at Area X.O, which was organized by Invest Ottawa among other organizations including the Government of Canada. The event showcased several technological innovation streams including public safety and mobility, including dual-use defence and emergency management technology. Given the heightened topicality of wildfires, floods, serious crime, public […]
GCXPO 2025 at Area X.O in Ottawa
CounterCrisis Tech is looking forward to exhibiting at GCXpo on September 24th at Area X.O in Ottawa! GCXpo 2025 is important to CounterCrisis Tech because it provides us with a unique opportunity to showcase our cutting-edge IC4W public safety, security, and defence mobility solution to our target market while recognizing the contribution we make to […]
Incident Management System Technology Gap Analysis
CounterCrisis Tech has developed an Incident Management System (IMS) technology gap analysis process which makes use of recognized crisis and emergency management standards for defining ‘ideal state’ requirements. It is comprised of the following: Defined goals based on standard IMS elements Defined ideal state based on standards and peer practice Information collection template to facilitate […]
Announcing Ivan Dubichev, CounterCrisis Tech’s CTO
It is with great pleasure that CounterCrisis Tech announces the appointment of Ivan Dubichev as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With over a decade of technical leadership in the Canadian public sector, Ivan brings deep expertise in advancing technology solutions that serve communities. His passion for public safety drives innovative approaches to GIS mapping, spatial […]
Original Canadian Design
CounterCrisis Tech’s Canadian origin has had a large part to play in the design of its IC4W software solutions, which reflect the pragmatic nature of Canadians by leveraging to the greatest extent possible existing Microsoft and Esri technology investments that are used ubiquitously within Canada’s emergency management and public safety communities. IC4W is an advanced […]
Optimizing Incident Management Outcomes with IC4W
In North America, we are experiencing an increase in the frequency and severity of emergencies, such as floods and wildfires, while being challenged by an ever-increasing number of incident types like prolonged public demonstrations and cyber security events. When major emergencies or critical incidents impact our communities, infrastructure, and sensitive environments, emergency response operations become […]
IC4W – A Canadian Solution to a Canadian Problem
At a minimum, ‘wildfire’, as a sample incident type, is associated with wildfire fighting, emergency management, environmental protection, public safety, health, and social services activities, which are delivered by numerous government, industry, non-profit volunteer organizations, and increasingly the military. The bigger, hotter, and faster-moving fires we are experiencing these days require a lot of inter-organizational […]
Solving the ‘Wicked’ Problem
The frequency and severity of emergencies we are now experiencing require multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional responses involving not just emergency management and public safety agencies, but military, non-profit, and volunteer search and rescue organizations as well. In the 1970s, to enable multiple organizations to cooperate operationally on major emergencies, the civilian Incident Command System (ICS) concept of […]