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

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

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.

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 & now National Harbor.

Join us at National Harbor Waterfront outside Orchard Terrace at 6:30am for a 6:45am start on Tuesday 6 May. Entry donation is $30 and all proceeds go directly towards supporting TSF's mission.

Want to promote on LinkedIn? You can download the banner here, don't forget to tag us on LinkedIn here, and use hashtags #ITW and #TSFRUN! We'll see you at the starting line! 

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Find out more about TSF's work

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.

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.

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