A 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on the central coast of Ecuador on 16 April 2016. The epicentre was 16 miles SSE of the town of Muisne. As of April 24th 654 people have been killed, over 12,500 injured and in…
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Ecuador earthquake response.
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Refugee Crisis response update: November 4th 2015.
To say that a lot has happened since we kicked of this deployment would be an understatement. Following is our latest sitrep. Remember: if you want to support our work you can make an online donation by clicking this link.…
Give a man internet & he’ll surf for a day, teach him how to network and he’ll email you forever…
A big part of our work is sharing our knowledge and making sure that we leave the communities to whose aid we come better prepared. That means that we teach them to maintain the technology that we provide them with.…
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Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda After action report.
Our deployment in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda drew to a close on April 14th this year. With an estimated 163 days this was Disaster Tech Lab’s longest deployment to date. We’ve now completed our After Action Report. Following are…
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Connecting the Beaver Crossing NE relief effort.
Disaster Tech Lab has been requested to assist the relief effort in Beaver Crossing Nebraska. We will be providing Internet access and related services to the Team Rubicon volunteers working there and if possible will also set up a location…
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December 21st Philippines update: Bantayan.
The last 9 days have seen our work in Cebu has seen a lot of progress. On December the 13th Sean arrived from Dublin together with a big bag of medical supplies. Sean’s primary task was to carry out a…
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Philippines progress update.
Progress has been made but there is much more to do! Yesterday our Swedish volunteer Rickard departed for home and handed over the tech work to Eric who had arrived from the US the day before. Yesterday also saw Sean,…
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