On paper, modern mass gatherings should be safer than ever. Attendees arrive with smartphones more powerful than the computers that sent humans to the moon. Organizers deploy layers of private security, medical teams, and emergency protocols. Surveillance cameras monitor nearly every angle.
Despite rapid advances in personal technology, public safety at mass gatherings, tourist sites, and crowded venues continues to rely on systems that have changed little in decades. Walkie-talkies remain the primary communication tool for security teams. Cellular networks frequently fail under heavy load. Command centers often operate with incomplete or delayed information.
The consequences of those limitations have been felt repeatedly, sometimes with fatal results.
For Noam Goldman, now CEO and co-founder of Israeli safety-technology startup dotSAGA, the issue became impossible to ignore after a Jerusalem event he helped organize several years ago.
The moment everything broke
“I woke up as an event manager to a message saying, ‘I was sexually assaulted at your event,’” Goldman told The Jerusalem Post. “I learned about it 24 hours later; that was the moment everything broke for me.”
Command Center ski photo (credit: courtesy of dotSAGA)
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