DisasterLAN (DLAN) is a secure, web-based, mobile friendly emergency management system that provides tools for shared situational awareness, workflow-based information management, and real-time communication to help your team prepare for, respond to, and report on issues. With DLAN in your toolbox, you will be properly prepared to manage daily operations, emergencies, and everything in-between.
DLAN simplifies task, mission, and resource management. It allows critical information to be quickly shared through secure interoperable communication features, which are included at no extra charge. DLAN also includes a full suite of reporting features to allow for easy after-action reporting.
During the configuration process every DLAN installation is tailored to the specific workflow requirements of each customer and after implementation administrators can customize many aspects of the system themselves using our standard tools. BCG’s in-house engineering team continually updates and enhances DLAN to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
Since its release in 2002, DLAN has been used internationally at all divisions of government, as well as in private-sector corporations. DLAN has been used in multiple industries, including emergency management, healthcare, transportation, utilities, and education. With DLAN any organization can easily track, manage, and report on multiple incidents and events from one unified mobile ready solution.
Based on our record, Signal seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 180 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Just so you know: https://grapheneos.org/ and https://signal.org/ do exist! - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp. Source: 7 months ago
A question I often get is "Well are my text messages safe" The short answer is... Maybe? Depends on what type of phone you use, your carrier, and a bunch of other factors. One way to avoid this is to use an end-to-end encrypted text service like Signal if that is a concern of yours. VERY IMPORTANT NOTES: Telegram and WhatsApp are not secure. The way to think of this security is that if is retained by a server... Source: 7 months ago
The linked page is on signalusers.org, but Signal's regular home site is https://signal.org/. I'm looking all over signal.org for some link from there to signalusers.org, as that would make me more relaxed about the authenticity of the latter -- i.e., that it really is run by the same people who run signal.org. Yes, maybe I'm being paranoid. But we're talking about an app whose whole purpose is secure... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
WhatsApp and Signal: Of course I’m going to conclude with the point to point encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp. Most of our clients around the world communicate in these apps more than they make phone calls or send emails. Set up an account in each app and start leveraging the text, photo, phone and video features to have easy and fast conversations with your global contacts. See https://signal.org... Source: about 1 year ago
WhosOnLocation - WhosOnLocation is a visitor management system that makes it easy for reception teams and/or non-manned reception areas to know their visitor.
Telegram - Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free.
Veoci - You know how to keep your people, organization, and community safe through any crisis. Veoci is here to make sure that happens, comprehensively. There is no other software solution like Veoci.
Element.io - Secure messaging app with strong end-to-end encryption, advanced group chat privacy settings, secure video calls for teams, encrypted communication using Matrix open network. Riot.im is now Element.
D4H - The cloud platform for emergency response.
WhatsApp - WhatsApp Messenger: More than 1 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere.