Communications Support for Disaster Response and Humanitarian Projects
If your team needs assistance with mobile satellite communications in any
location,
contact us at
info@humaninet.org
For disaster relief teams: if you would like a free email or phone consultation to check your comms readiness, please contact us at info@humaninet.org. Also see our Current Updates.
Aid, development, and mission teams: we currently have one or
two BGANs available for loan to organizations with a long-term need. For details, click here and contact info@humaninet.org.
For some thoughts on winter and summer, and a pretty good picture, see “Random Summertime Notes” in the Executive Directors Report.
Comms Readiness
The multiple disasters around the world in the last year – in Chile, Haiti, Samoa, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and elsewhere - underscore the importance of communications in the response, especially when power, cell phones, and infrastructure are severely impacted. See the article “Are
your comms ready for a disaster?” and see if your organization can pass the nine-step comms preparedness test.
HumaniNet is a nonprofit organization that supports humanitarian relief and development field teams with practical assistance in global information and communication technologies, or ICT.
Through its growing network of advisors and field users, HumaniNet is helping humanitarian and mission organizations to make the right choices in communications, particularly in remote areas.
HumaniNet provides:
- current information on best practices, favorable service and pricing, and new technology opportunities
- assistance and information on reliable, cost-effective satellite and terrestrial telecommunications equipment and services
- access to relevant technology information from selected service providers, business partners, non-profit organizations, and government agencies
In the last five years, HumaniNet has assisted relief teams responding to the tsunami disaster in South Asia, the Darfur crisis, and Hurricane Katrina in the United States. We have also helped NGO teams deployed to Indonesia, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, as well as development and mission organizations throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific islands. Thanks to our donors, this support is provided at no cost to participating organizations.
We invite you to meet some of our field partners and hear how better communications are helping them.
Also, we are pleased to present several Testimonials from some of our field partners. Their feedback on "what works and what doesn't" is the most important ingredient in our information base.
Our ICT Features section highlights new developments and presents the results of field tests of new technologies.
For in-depth information on communications solutions and portable computer, please tour our ICT Information Service, which has received a great deal of positive feedback since its launch in April 2004.
You may contact HumaniNet by email at info@humaninet.org or by calling 503-957-2960.
HumaniNet is a 501(c) (3) tax-exempt nonprofit corporation based in the United States .
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