Philippines / SuperTyphoon Yolanda deployment. #Philippines #YolandaPH #ReliefPH
Disaster Tech Lab is preparing for a possible deployment to the Philippines. Full details on our “deployment” page. More details following. UPDATE 11/9/13: The telecommunication provider Globe reports that they continue working on restoration of communication services. Two hard hit areas Iloilo and Roxas City are now again working. According to their latest damage assessment about […]
DTL is going back to the Phillippines!
We first sent a team to the Philippines following typhoon Haiyan at the end of 2013. Haiyan hit the Philippines on November 3rd 2013 displacing 4.1 million people, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving 1,800 missing. Our teams deployed to a number of locations to provide much needed help. One of the locations where […]
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Responding to typhoon Rai.
Super Typhoon Rai – with winds of about 195km/h (120mph) – sent some 400,000 people running for safety when it hit the Philippines’ south-eastern islands.At least 300 people have died, 500 people were injured and 56 others have been reported missing by local police.Rescue teams have described scenes of “complete carnage”.We, Disaster Tech Lab , have responded to […]
Launching down under.
With offices in Ireland and the USA we are now taking the next step in our global expansion by establishing an Australian branch of Disaster Tech Lab. Our recent work in the Philippines has resulted in an influx of Australian volunteers and establishing a permanent presence there is the next logical step. Not only does […]
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. There would be no point in installing something that won’t be repaired when it breaks, […]
Increased Philippine participation in upcoming deployment to Cebu.
DTL has always strived to include local volunteers during our deployment. Having local participation has several benefits, it keeps our overheads down, it gives us increased local knowledge and awareness and most of all it guarantees continuity of effort. Not only can we ” leave” some of our knowledge and skills behind but we also […]