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Disaster Response in the Pacific
Blog Groups funded by the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership are deployed in all three Pacific Ocean emergencies to provide vital communications services that enable relief workers to deliver food aid and emergency supplies.
[October 6, 2009, 9:25]
Survival training with the UN's ICT specialists
News IT is integral to any relief project as, without the two-way radios, portable satellite terminals, and GPS receivers the technical specialists set-up, it is almost impossible for the rest of the aid agency personnel to communicate with each other...
[May 30, 2008, 15:05]
IT aid for Ghana's flood victims
Blog Monday morning, TSF’s crew arrived in Tamale, focal point for aid coordination in the Northern regions of the country and could deploy one or several additional emergency satellite-based communication centres for all rescue teams involved in...
[September 18, 2007, 17:58]
Web channels cash to disaster zone
News In the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center the Internet has proved a resilient communications method for people tracking their loved ones, and has also formed the backbone of international relief efforts.
[September 13, 2001, 17:36]
NICE Systems Case Study: Eskom Holdings Ltd.
White Papers To find relief, Eskom enlisted the aid of the IEX TotalView Workforce Management system. Eskom Holdings Ltd.of South Africa is one of the world's leading power producers, supplying virtually all of the energy to its home country and half of the...
[July 12, 2006, 0:00]
Bandwidth Aid - BT finally answers critics' questions
News Money raised will go to Comic Relief. The event -- dubbed Bandwidth Aid -- will see companies like Vodafone, AOL and regulator Oftel attempting to settle their differences in the pub. It is equally bullish about Bandwidth Aid.
[April 23, 2001, 12:06]
EC probes BT state aid claims
News It claims that BT is receiving illegal tax relief, and that the present situation, if not changed, will "destroy Broadband Britain, and turn the clock back 20 years on telecommunications liberalisation".
[January 19, 2005, 16:20]
From Kosovo to Haiti: TSF's Emergency Communications for Disaster Relief
Blog Through our work, we soon found that the international humanitarian relief workers that deploy to emergencies also had a critical need for reliable telecommunications services in the first days after an emergency.
[September 17, 2008, 9:49]
Man arrested for tsunami email scam
News A man has been released on bail after being charged with stealing donations for tsunami relief. Twenty-four-year-old Matthew Schmieder, who is accused of sending emails purporting to be from a genuine aid organization, was arrested last week.
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
'$100 laptops' here by next year
Talkback Water aid and Sight savers, AIDs relief and other things lower down Mazlow's hierarchy take precedence. A typically idealistic missed opportunity. Do gooders have missed the point that Steve Jobs got with the Apple II to get started.
[November 18, 2005, 18:35]
Space: The final sales opportunity
News Successfully launched from Plesetsk in Russia last month, the satellite is part of a constellation of imaging and communications spacecraft built to aid emergency relief agencies: the Cisco router is part of a testbed for space-borne mobile IP...
[October 7, 2003, 15:05]
Vodafone Foundation gives £100k to Congo relief
Blog The Vodafone Foundation has committed £100,000 to the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) for relief efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Vodafone Foundation also has a tie-in with Telecoms Sans Frontieres, through which it will be...
[November 27, 2008, 14:29]
ICT emergency planning starts with Gatwick evac
Blog I am not sure what exactly the day will consist of but its basically all around setting up the communications infrastructure in a disaster zone - food, water and medicine obvious necessities but if, as in Burma, there is no way for aid groups to...
[May 21, 2008, 9:14]
Nuggets: Agfa CL20 loves simple folk
News If you're put off by the bells and whistles of, say, the Nikon D1 (come back tomorrow for a review of this snaptastic digital SLR) then you'll breathe a sigh of relief at the CL20. If it's gloomy, or you're indoors, then you might want to enable...
[December 12, 2000, 12:16]
Tech community rally around Katrina's victims
News The tech community is rallying around victims of Hurricane Katrina, offering technical assistance, aiding the homeless and gathering relief donations. Cable giant Comcast said it will donate $10m worth of advertising time for public service...
[September 1, 2005, 16:35]
Anti-spammers hobble Oxfam's Kosovo email campaign
News Oxfam could go around robbing banks to support their relief effort, too, but that doesn't mean we should stand back and let them," said Julian Haight, creator of the Spamcop Web site. Britain's largest foreign aid charity, Oxfam, had planned to...
[April 22, 1999, 7:13]
Help for Haiti: Calling for Relief
Blog TSF's teams deployed from bases in Nicaragua and in France to support communications both among humanitarian relief workers, and for Haitians who had been driven from their homes by flood waters. The hub of humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti is...
[October 2, 2008, 17:18]
Boldly going to IBM Rational 2008
News On hand to add some light relief to the proceedings was William Shatner (pictured) whose alter-ego, Star Trek's Captain James T Kirk, knew a thing or two about tech work under pressure, or at least how to delegate it to ship's engineer Scotty.
[June 11, 2008, 15:40]
Big Brother 2 goes wireless
News The Comic Relief Web site, located at www.comicrelief.com, will not broadcast 24 hour streaming, as a technical operation on the scale of the original Big Brother would be too prohibitive for such a short project.
[February 26, 2001, 15:01]
Tech disaster relief comes to Dominican Republic
Blog Communications are vital to international relief workers’ ability to act quickly to provide on-the-ground assistance and help save lives. The TSF team arrived Thursday evening in the Dominican Republic capital Santo Domingo, carrying IT and...
[November 5, 2007, 10:05]
