We are delighted to be partnering with Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) for ITW

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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TSF Charity Run at ITW

The TSF Charity Run has become a staple in the ITW social agenda. Throughout the years, attendees have gathered together for a 5-kilometer run around the streets of Chicago, Atlanta and now National Harbor.

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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 street scene in a developing area or disaster zone, depicting a community gathering around communication services. In the close-up foreground, a person wearing an orange shirt and a patterned head wrap speaks on a large satellite phone. In the background, multiple local men stand or sit near basic structures and shelters with damaged roofs, some looking toward the camera or talking amongst themselves.
    A wide panoramic composite image highlighting humanitarian aid and communication efforts by Telecoms Sans Frontières (TSF). The left section shows a smiling girl and a woman wearing a blue headscarf speaking on a satellite telephone outdoors. The middle section shows aid workers and local staff operating laptops on tables set up inside a large field tent beneath a TSF banner. The right section captures three children looking down intently together at a tablet enclosed in a case bearing the TSF logo.

    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.