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New GeoSure Global App Provides Up-To-The-Minute Travel Safety Information

Saturday, September 20th, 2014

Monitor threat temperatures anywhere in the world: know when to walk or take a cab. when to leave at dusk or linger for a glass of wine. Today’s travelers can be empowered with GeoSure.

New York City, September 18, 2014 – It’s a beautiful world. It’s a treacherous world. Both facts are equally true. So how can travel – for business, for pleasure, for study – focus on the good, and steer clear of the bad? Today’s state-of-the-art answer is GeoSure Global, a new application designed under the leadership of Michael Becker, investor, entrepreneur and adventurer, and big data scientist, Dr. Donald Pardew, a thought leader in statistical risk modeling.

GeoSure Global balances the need or desire to travel with a personalized, analytically modeled assessment of safety and security in all the world’s travel zones. Its precision helps assure that travel adventures are the adventures one wants.

Today’s premier travel-risk assessment tool, the GeoSure app is unique in its ability to provide ultra-accurate and ultra-timely safety related advisories to travelers and travel-planners worldwide. Using sophisticated predictive analytics, GeoSure derives its exclusive “Threat Temperature” risk scores to quantify travel vulnerability anywhere in the world. It’s an instant, powerful, and highly personalized tool that is further enhanced by crowd-sourced updates from GeoSure’s community of global travelers and users.

Utilizing up-to-the-minute data drawn from hundreds of sources, including narrative data sources and shared intelligence from its own global community, GeoSure delivers vital travel information based on data and predictive analytic methodologies not available to most travelers. Sources include CDC, WHO, United Nations, State Department, Interpol, and data from many national and local authorities and updated global threat statistics. Virtually real-time reporting can include:

• Cultural, economic or geopolitical conditions that predict overall threats
• Political rallies that signal trouble or the absence of trouble
• Human rights violations
• Environmental contamination and cyber threats
• Conditions unfavorable to women (existing and emerging)
• Incidence of thefts and physical threats
• Local conditions that are attractive to visitors
• User reported “all-clears” in any travel zone

You can read the full release via .pdf here: soldiersystems.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GEO_PR_09-18-14p.pdf

For more information, visit www.geosureglobal.com.