An Introduction to the Impact of Innovation

I’d like to officially introduce myself, I am Laken. I have been with INdigital for over a month now, and I am excited to bring my background in social media to a different field! I come from an athletics background, so there has been a learning curve, but I have already learned A LOT in my short time.

Once a month, INdigital will be writing a guest blog post for Within the Trenches, sometimes it will be about the technology INdigital has for you, other times it will be something more personal. Honestly, the opportunities are endless. . .

RapidSOS and INdigital Partner to Provide Improved Location Accuracy and Additional Data to Public Safety Answering Points in the INdigital Network

New York, NY – January 17, 2017 INdigital and RapidSOS today announced a strategic partnership to provide Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) served by INdigital Next Generation 9-1-1 networks with accurate location and additional data from the RapidSOS NG911 Clearinghouse. Through this partnership, 9-1-1 professionals will be able to access data from the RapidSOS Clearinghouse — including accurate handset location from all smartphone location sensors.

Behind the Scenes with #IAM911.

The #IAM911 movement began at the end of last August by Ricardo Martinez II, a 9-1-1 dispatcher in Michigan, as an effort on Facebook to assist in the reclassification of public safety telecommunicators from “clerical,” where US Government’s Office of Management and Budget’s Standard Occupational Classification Policy.