Press review 2013 - Click to discover all the articles published about TSF in 2013
2013
- TELECOMS AT THE FRONTLINE, August 2013
Jean-François Cazenave, President, Télécoms Sans Frontières, provides an insight to communications for disaster and the poorest communities on the planet ... Read the article
- TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES TRAIN IN PARCHED AND STARVING AFRICA... THAT THEIR CUPS MIGHT RUN OVER, 17 June 2013
A state of famine, threatening more than 13 million people, has been declared... Read the article
- TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES TRAINS IN DAKAR... COMMUNICATION CRISIS, 29th May 2013
A humanitarian crisis bring efforts to offer lifesaving training in Africa. Read the article
- TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES... ECHO A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE TO PREP FOR EMERCENCY RESPONSE, 7th May 2013
With more effective response from the emergency players, humanitarian aid on the ground will have a stronger impact on affected populations. Read the article
- TSF BRINGS BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS TO SYRIAN CAMPS, 18th April 2013
Al Salama Camp is located close to the Turkish border at the edge to the main road to Aleppo and currently hosts 15,000 refugees. Read the article
- TSF OPENS INTERNET SCHOOL FOR TRAUMATIZED SYRIAN CHILDREN, 17th April 2013
More than half are children with a majority under the age of 11, and have been traumatized by the war raging for more than two years. Read the article
- TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES... TABLETS + TESTIMONIALS HELP WITH TERROR..., 15th April 2013
Going where most are too afraid to venture, this organization teaches traumatized youth how to communicate... Read the article
- 25 PARTICIPANTS FROM 18 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS JOIN TSF TRAINING AT AIT, March 2013
Twenty-five participants from 18 international organizations joined the training program ‘Information and Communication Technology training for emergency responders in Asia’. Read the article
- TELECOM SANS FRONTIERES' ... SIGN UP NOW ... NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED, 22nd March 2013
Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is extending its anual training program for humanitarian organizations to Africa. Read the article
- TIMBUKTU IS LIVING IN ISOLATION, February 2013
Since the beginning of the crisis, the city of Timbuktu is cut off from the rest of the world and suffers from the interruption of all of its telecommunication networks after militias have burned all the telephone relays and left the city in total isolation.
- TSF INTERVENES IN TIMBUKTU ... THE HAVE THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS, 6 February 2013
A TSF team is currently intevening in Timbuktu. The TSF experts installed an Internet satellite connection at the town hall for the benefit of the NGOs, the crisis unit, the hospital staff and the local authorities. Read the article
- TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES ESBLISHES SATELLITE LINK IN TIMBUKTU, 5th February 2013
Communications charity Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) has installed an internet satellite connection in hte Malian city of Timbuktu. Read the article
- TSF'S ON WAY TO TIMBUKTU ... DEGRADATION IN SAFETY CONDITIONS, 4th February 2013.
A TSF team deployed this morning to Timbuktu. Read the article
This team stands up for those left helpless, in the wake of wars and disasters, and now they have been working beside refugee families in various evacuation camps of Cateel, Baganga, Boston and Monkoya, and have been carrying out humanitarian calling operations. Read the article
- TÉLÉCOMS SANS FRONTIÈRES IMPROVES SATELLITE COMMUNICATION IN THE SAHEL, 15th August 2012
Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is supporting the work of the UN and NGOs in the Sahel region through the installation of satellite connections and communication centres. Read the article
The telecom equipment provided by TSF to the NGOs in the Sahel region is essential for the communication of vital food data on the situation of people affected by drought. Read the article
- TSF CHIEF ASSURES AIT OF SUPPORT, KEEN TO CONTINUE PARTNERSHIP, April 2012In a visit to AIT on 16 May 2012, Mr. Cazenave said TSF was very happy with the partnership with AIT, and was keen to continue its engagement. Lire l'article
Routes coupées après une catastrophe naturelle, terrain hostile en temps de guerre, établir ou rétablir le contact avec le personnel humanitaire et les populations vulnérables représente un défi technique majeur pour les ONG. Lire l'article
Quand les services européens d’urgence humanitaire se déploient sur le lieu d’une catastrophe humanitaire, plusieurs ONG suivent. Parmi elles, TSF. Lire l'article
Le chef-lieu de la région Itasy a désormais accès à l'internet haut débit. Une formation en informatique, surtout en faveur des jeunes, complètera cette mise en place. Lire l'article
Il s’agit du 6ème centre installé par TSF dans le monde depuis 2007. Lire l'article
Responding to the 3rd category cyclone Giovanna which swept Madagascar Island today, TSF is dispatching an emergency team from its international headquarters. Lire l'article
- TSF AND VSF'S PILOT PROJECT...PHONES AND VETERINARIANS IN PARCHED KENYA, 6th December 2011
TSF is launching a pilot project in Kenya using the mobile phone-based, payment and money transfer system M-PESA for the benefit of populations in pastoral areas. Read the article
- "OPERATIONNELS SOUS 24 HEURES", 10th November 2011General interview about TSF's actions. Read the article
- TSF IS THERE... WHEN RAIN IS A REAL PAIN IN EL SALVADOR, 20th October 2011
TSF embarked on a mission to El Salvador after the government appealed for humanitarian assistance. Read the article
- TSF RESPONDS..AFRICA'S FAMINE..NO RAIN FOR TWO YEARS, 28th July 2011
- GOOD CONNECTIONS, July 2011.
- SENDING A HUMANITARIAN PLANE, 13th April 2011
- TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES' COMMUNICATIONS LIBERATE LIBYANS, 28th March 2011
- REFUGEES AIRLIFTED FROM TUNISIA, 4th March 2011
In another part of the camp, men waited for the chance to make a three-minute call home, thanks to Telecoms Sans Frontières (Telecoms Without Borders), a group donating the service. Read the article
- TENT CAMP, AIRLIFTS TO HELP LIBYAN REFUGEES, 4th March 2011
In midafternoon, new arrivals lined up for white bread, yogurt and water. In another part of the camp, men waited for the chance to make a three-minute call home, thanks to Telecommunications Without Borders, a group donating the service. Read the article
- TENT CAMP, AIRLIFTS TO HELP LIBYAN REFUGEES, 4th March 2011
- TENT CAMP, AIRLIFTS TO HELP LIBYAN REFUGEES, 4th March 2011
In midafternoon, new arrivals lined up for white bread, yogurt and water. In another part of the camp, men waited for the chance to make a three-minute call home, thanks to Telecommunications Without Borders, a group donating the service. Read the article
- LIBYA FEARED TO BE PREVENTING MIGRANT WORKERS FROM LEAVING, 4th March 2011
A mobile hospital is in place and Télécoms Sans Frontières, a French NGO, has established a station where people are permitted to make a three minute call to anywhere in the world to let relatives know their whereabouts. Read the article
- LE CAMP DE CHOUCHA, PREMIERE ETAPE DES TRAVAILLEURS ETRANGERS FUYANT LA LIBYE, 4th March 2011
- LIBYAN EXODUS: I'M ALIVE....I'M IN TUNISIA, 3rd March 2011
This being the 21st century, Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) are here with satellite phones and charge points for people to plug in their mobiles. The crowd around the chargers is quite small, because so many phones, they say, are stolen by Libyan authorities at the border. Read the article
- TENT CAMP, AIRLIFTS TO HELP LIBYAN REFUGEES, 3rd March 2011
- DES MILLIERS DE REFUGIES FUIENT LA LIBYE, 2nd March 2011
- US SHIPS ARE MOVED TO WATERS CLOSER TO LIBYA AS THE WEST DEBATES MILITARY ACTION, 1st March 2011
An Egyptian man who fled the unrest in Libya talks on a phone provided by Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF ) at a refugee camp near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing Ras Jdir. Read the article
- TSF IN TUNISIA AND LIBYA OFFERS ORDER AMONG CHAOS, 1st March 2011
TSF has been deployed to the border between Tunisia and Libya since February 24th, at the Ras Jedir border post and in the transit camp of Choucha. Read the article
- SPANISH REPORT ABOUT THE SITUATION ON THE LIBYAN BORDER, 1st March 2011
- A LA FRONTIERE TUNISIO-LIBYENNE, DES TUNISIENS VIENNENT EN AIDE AUX REFUGIES EGYPTIENS, 26th February 2011
- SMART, NDRRMC BENEFIT FROM TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES TRAINING, 20th Dec 2010
International relief agency Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF or Telecoms Without Borders) recently conducted an ICT Emergency Response training for Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) employees who are part of the telco's Emergency Communications Team as well as members of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC). Read the article
- TSF'S SATELLITE SAVES LIVES AFTER TSUNAMI SWEEPS INDONESIA, 7th Nov 2010
In the aftermath of the devastating tsunami that swept the Mentawai island on October 25th, Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) deployed to Indonesia at the request of the Office of the President of Indonesia and in coordination with ASEAN and BNPB (the Indonesian Government Disaster Management agency). Read the article
- TSF STILL CALLING IN PAKISTAN - RECONNECTING FAMILIES (SATCOM), 9th Sept 2010
- FOREIGN TELECOM NGO HELPING FLOOD VICTIMS IN PAKISTAN, 6th Sept 2010
Télécoms Sans Frontières has been responding to the flood emergency since August 9. Read the article
- ECUADOR ASISTIO A SEMINARIO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INFORMACION PARA EMERGENCIAS, 27th Aug 2010
La Comision Europea, a través de la ONG internacional Sin Fronteras Telecomunicaciones, realizo en Managua, Nicaragua del 23 al 27 de agosto, el Seminario "Tecnologias de Informacion y Comunicacion" - TIC. Read the article
- TSF... TRAINS FOR THE WORST, HOPES FOR THE BEST, 26th Aug 2010
The European Commission, through the international NGO Télécoms Sans Frontières, is training in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) emergency organizations working throughout the region of Latin America. Read the article
- INSTRUYE LA UE USO DE TELECOMUNICACIONES EN EMERGENCIAS, 23rd Aug 2010
- HOW DISASTER RELIEF IS SAVING LIVES IN HAITI AND BEYOND, 17th July 2010TSF's director, Monique Lanne-Petit, talks about TSF's efforts in Haiti, after the terrible eartquake that hit the country in January 2010.
- HOW DISASTER RELIEF 2.0 IS SAVING LIVES IN HAITI AND BEYOND, 16th July 2010
Non-governement organisations such as Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) specialise in re-connecting devastated, cut-off communities to the outside world just hours after tragedy hits. Read the article
- INTERVIEW OF TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES ABOUT ITS ACTION IN HAITI, 30th March 2010
- INTERVIEW OF PAUL MARGIE, TSF REPRESENTATIVE IN WASHINGTON, 10th March 2010
- HAITI - PHONING HOME, 26th March 2010
- SIA, THEY WHO SERVE ARE TRULY WORTHY..., 21st March 2010
- COMMUNICATIONS IN CRISIS: ON THE GROUND IN HAITI WITH PAUL MARGIE OF TSFI, 23rd Feb 2010
The volunteers at Télécoms Sans Frontières International (a.k.a Telecoms Without Borders) are dedicated to bringing communications solutions to the aid workers and citizens who need it most. Read the article
- PAUL MARGIE ON COMMUNICATING IN CRISIS, 12th Feb 2010
Some NGO's like Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) or Telecom Without Borders provide NGO's and government the capacity to communicate using data and/or voice. Read the article
- AGENCIES LAUNCH EFFORT TO AID QUAKE COMMUNICATIONS, 25th Jan 2010 Rescue efforts in Haiti will be hindered by a dire lack of telecommunications services. A French technology relief agency, Telecoms Sans Frontieres, or Telecoms Without Borders, has sent a team from Nicaragua, while another group is on the way from France. Read the article
- HAITI: HELPING EARTHQUAKE STRUCK HAITIANS CONNECT WITH LOVED ONES, 25th Jan 2010
- A VIDEO FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S HUMANITARIAN AID DEPARTMENT, 22nd Jan 2010
- THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ACTS FOR LONG TERM PROJECTS IN HAITI, 21st Jan 2010
- BRINGING CONNECTIVITY TO A DEVASTATED HAITI, 14th Jan 2010
- HAITI QUAKE SEVERELY STRAINS TELECOM SERVICES, 14th Jan 2010
"The logistics and the security situation are really bad", says Paul Margie, U.S. representative for international relief organization Télécoms Sans Frontières (Telecommunications Without Borders). Read the article
- FACTBOX: COUNTRIES, AID AGENCIES SEEKING TO HELP HAITI, 13th Jan 2010
Télécoms Sans Frontières, a humanitarian group that helps set up communications during disasters, deployed an emergency team from Managua to provide vital support in emergency telecommunications. Read the article
- TELECOM NON-PROFIT SENDS TEAMS TO HAITI, 13th Jan 2010
The French nonprofit Télécoms Sans Frontières is sending two teams of responders to Haiti to help facilitate communications as rescue workers dig through the country's earthquake-battered capital. Read the article
- MEET TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES, USING TECH FOR DISASTER RELIEF, 15th Oct 2009
When the founders of Télécoms Sans Frontières, Monique Lanne-Petit and Jean-François Cazenave, visited Washington DC on October 14th, they had the privilege of being shown around the White House and the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). They were invited by White House and FCC officials to share their experiences of humanitarian activities. Read the article
- BBC-PRI, 19th Sept 2008
A TSF responder reports from cyclone stricken Gonaives in Haiti. Haiti was hit by 4 consecutive cyclones leaving the 300,000 inhabitants of Gonaives in desperate need of assistance.
- COMMS DISASTER RELIEF. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, 9th Aug - 5th Sept 2008
Telecommunication networks are among the first things to be swept away by earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, mudslides and floods. Ten years ago, in June 1998, Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) was born with a simple mission - to help individuals and rescue organisations through the early days of a disaster. Read the article
- ONE MAN'S VISION PROVES A LIFELINE IN CONFLICT ZONES AND DISASTERS, 26th Aug 2008
- Telecom TV, July 2008
TSF celebrates its 10th Anniversary in Clairefontaine-Paris and the founders thank our partners for their support.
- COMMUNICATIONS IS KEY IN DISASTER RELIEF, 3rd July 2008
How can aid workers communicate effectively, with each other as well as the victims and the outside world? A new organisation is working to solve the problem. Télécoms Sans Frontières was founded in June 1998 by two aid workers, Monique Lanne-Petit and Jean-François Cazenave, after their experience of working with Kosovan refugees. Read the article
- TSF TELECOM CENTERS IN EMERGENCIES, 6th May 2008
How Télécoms Sans Frontières helps humanitarian workers remain connected during emergencies.
- OISIN WALTON EXPLAINS WHAT IS A TSF TRAINING IN EMERGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 6th May 2008
- TELECOMMANDOS DISASTERS AND TELECOMS, 4th Apr 2007
A tiny NGO shows the way. You don't have to be big to make a difference... Read the article
- NGO TELECOMS SANS FRONTIERES SIGNS PARTNERSHIP WITH UNITED NATIONS, 11th Oct 2006
The Non governmental organization Télécoms sans frontéres (TSF) signed a partnership with the United Nations to become the telecommunications "First Responder" in emergencies, the organization announced in a press release. Read the article
- Telecommunications Reports - "MORE TELECOM COMPANIES SHOULD ASSIST IN HUMANITARIAN MISSION", NGO Chief Says, 5th Oct 2006
While industry often donates medicine and food to agencies responding to disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis, the importance of establishing communications links at such times has been overlooked, and telecom companies should become more active in assisting such ef