Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF)

Télécoms Sans Frontières was founded in 1998 as the world’s first NGO focusing on emergency-response technologies. We enable people affected by humanitarian crises to communicate and regain a perspective on life. In a world disrupted by climate change and numerous complex crises, TSF contributes to community resilience in the context of natural and man-made disasters, conflicts, and migratory crises. To respond to these different crises and needs, we implement connectivity, information access, and digital inclusion solutions to benefit refugees, migrants, displaced persons, and anyone affected by a one-off or protracted crisis. Since its creation, TSF has been involved in over 150 major crises in more than 80 countries, providing communications to more than 11 million people and almost 1,000 NGOs.

In humanitarian crisies, women and girls face specific risks - one of them is ????????????-?????????? ????????????????. Being able to use the Internet safely to reach out for help, or access relevant information, can be ?????????????????? in these situations. November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. If you want to learn more about technology for women in humanitarian crises: https://lnkd.in/du9Rbqdm

Meet Verónica Juárez, shelter manager in CAFEMIN, Mexico, as she discusses the shelter and the ???????????? ???? ??????'?? ?????????????????????? ?????????????????? ???? ????????????. ???? TSF displays essential information in shelters across the migratory route for people to make informed decisions and try to stay safe. ??

“We were leaving for 50 kilometers to contact relatives and friends.” Discover the story of Lyubov, a displaced, elderly woman in Ukraine ????, and how TSF connected an isolated shelter in the forest ??

“I think we’re helping Mexico, and we’re also helping the communities and the individuals that benefit from your work.” Meet Carlos A. Bello, founding partner at bgbg, a Mexican law firm who does pro bono work for TSF, and find out how a law firm can help a humanitarian NGO ?? https://lnkd.in/dRV7TpR5

?????? Meet Evgenia, who teaches to school and preschool children in Ukrainian shelters ???? "Today, life is impossible without the Internet" ?? Learn more about how she uses the WiFi TSF provides in the shelter for educational purposes. #Ukraine #Connectivity

???? Learn more about TSF's exploratory mission in Lebanon here ?? Also: ?? Education & technology for displaced children in Ukraine and Latin America, and ?? How a Mexican law firm helps TSF: bgbg's Carlos A. Bello interview about their Pro Bono work.

"I realized I could come across dangerous people, whereas before, I never paid attention to the profiles chatting with me." ?? Tanjona, in Madagascar, realized the dangers she was facing when chatting with strangers online ?? "I took part in the social networking awareness course and learned a lot about the dangers that can happen to me when talking to strangers." As a participant in a social networking awareness conference organized in a center TSF works with in Madasgascar, she learned safer ways to use social media: "I've changed my behavior via profiles that are a little suspicious and unknown in my network. Listening to the examples given at the conference, I know that everyone can invent their own profile behind the screen. I realized I could come across dangerous people, whereas before, I never paid attention to the profiles chatting with me." Learn more about TSF's Digital Inclusion mission in Madagascar here: https://lnkd.in/dRMHavDy

On ???????????? ?????????? ?????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????? ????????, we remind the importance of #digitalinclusion for those who need it most ?? ?? In Syria, after the earthquake in 2023, TSF partnered with the Syrian organization Zoom-In to provide #?????????????? ???????????????? ?????? ??????????. ?? Media Haydar, one of the participants, shared her feedback: "We hope that more training like this will be offered in the future, especially for women and girls, so that they learn how to protect themselves in this field. Honestly, after the wars and the things we are going through, we are very exposed to electronic blackmail and these things.” Learn more here ?? https://lnkd.in/g5VK3rgh

?? What are people on the move looking for when they use ???????????? ?????????? to access #information? Researcher Ximena Canal Laiton at the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) explains the four main categories of information people look for. #latinamerica #ict