We're delighted to be partnering with Télécoms Sans Frontiéres (TSF) for ITW Asia

Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) was founded in 1998 as the world’s first NGO focusing on emergency-response technologies. During humanitarian crises they give affected people the possibility to contact their loved ones and begin to regain control of their lives, as well as build rapid-response communications centres for local and international responders.

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The first emergency technology NGO 

Thanks to 20 years of experience in the field, TSF's high-skilled technical team adapts and tweaks existing tools to respond to different crises and beneficiaries’ needs in the ever-evolving humanitarian context. From its early days, the culture of first emergency response has been core to TSF’s identity, but they have grown and evolved as the role of technologies in emergencies has expanded.

A close-up of a person wearing a headwrap and an orange shirt, speaking into a large satellite phone. The background shows a crowded area with damaged structures and several people standing near what appears to be a makeshift camp or disaster relief site.
Two people sitting outdoors against a mountainous backdrop; one smiles at the camera while the other speaks on a corded handset. On the right, a logo for Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is visible on a white banner next to relief workers and a vehicle.

Communications for life 

In parallel to this core activity, TSF also develop, adapt, and make available innovative and cost-effective solutions to assist migrants, refugees, displaced people and other disadvantaged communities in different areas, including education, healthcare, women’s rights and food security.

TSF is a member of the United Nations Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (UNETC), a partner of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and a member of the US State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

Since its creation, TSF responded to over 140 crises in more than 70 countries providing communication means to over 20 million people and nearly 1,000 NGOs.