CS&A International, a leading specialist risk, crisis and business continuity management consultancy, and Crowdsense, provider of an early warning and incident management system using social media, are pleased to announce the signing of a new strategic cooperation agreement that will offer clients state of the art social sensing capabilities.
With the increasing incidence of threatening events and the viral speed at which they propagate, the ability to detect early and mitigate becomes an invaluable tool in the field or risk and crisis management. Crowdsense provides an early warning and incident management system and a unique platform to monitor incidents using social media networks.
Dirk Lenaerts, senior partner of CS&A said: “We are very pleased to have signed this cooperation agreement with Crowdsense. There are many social media monitoring platforms on the market. However, Crowdsense provides companies with unparalleled social media sensing capability especially in the context of incident detection, prevention and mitigation, and we are delighted to offer this to our clients.”
Hans Burghard, founding director of Crowdsense stated: “We are keen to provide CS&A’s clients with the best there is in terms of incident social media monitoring and sensing. CS&A’s established expertise in crisis management in the private sector is a great addition to our existing client base.”
Founded in Hong Kong 25 years ago and operating globally, CS&A International focuses on enhancing crisis resilience for multinational clients across industries. With particular emphasis on crisis prevention, detection, mitigation and recovery, CS&A provides comprehensive services and unique tools in risk, crisis and business continuity management.
CrowdSense is a privately owned company located in The Hague − the city of peace and safety. CrowdSense is a spin-off of the Dutch national applied research institute (TNO) and technical university (TU Delft) and is part of the HSD campus − the European innovation centre of the Dutch security cluster. CrowdSense has clients in public safety, utilities and government agencies among others.
For further information, please contact:
CS&A International – Dirk Lenaerts, Senior Partner, CS&A International
Crowdsense B.V. – Hans Burghard, Founding Director Crowdsense B.V.