Founded in 1998, Télécoms Sans Frontières is the world’s leading emergency telecommunications non-profit organisation. For more than 13 years, TSF has participated in international emergency efforts, setting up emergency communications facilities in war-torn or disaster zones for affected populations and relief workers.
The top priority for TSF is to reach the affected destination and set up communication facilities as quickly as possible, in the first hours of an emergency. The initial part of the response is the most critical part of the emergency - when we save lives.
With its 24-hour monitoring centre and offices in Europe, Central America, Asia, and the United States, TSF crews of IT and telecoms specialists can intervene anywhere in the world in less than 24 hours to provide emergency telecom services. For the last 12 years, TSF has built a roster of IT and telecoms specialists (18 staff and 40 volunteers all over the world) that are competent, trained and motivated individuals ready to be deployed anywhere in the world with a few hours notice. Thanks to mobile teams, TSF is among the first to arrive after a catastrophe.

This vital role is recognised in TSF’s status with regard to UN and other official agencies. Since 2006, it is the First Responder for the UN Emergency Telecommunications Cluster. « less