NetHope in the News

IT First AId for First Responders, 01/07/08
Call it hope in a box or an angel on the broadband airwaves. Relief workers in Bangladesh and elsewhere following the devastating cyclone Sidr in November have used those descriptions and more in praising NetHope’s latest iteration of its Network Relief Kit. The NRK, developed over several years to provide instant communications for first responders where natural disasters have wiped out the existing communications infrastructure...

NetHope Brings Fast Links to Disaster Relief, 12/21/07
The organization's Network Relief Kit helped keep communications open after the cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh. Call it hope in a box or an angel on the broadband airwaves. Relief workers in Bangladesh and elsewhere following the devastating cyclone Sidr in November have used those descriptions and more in praising NetHope's latest iteration of its Network Relief Kit...

Bakers offers IT support to NetHope Charities, 09/25/07
Baker & McKenzie's IT team has been working on a pro bono project bringing satellite IT and telecoms support to a string of major charities, including Action Aid, Oxfam and Save the Children. Several of the firm's lawyers are helping NetHope, a not-for-profit organisation that provides its charity members with telecoms equipment and services, to renegotiate a deal with a broadband internet service provider...

Microsoft, NetHope Kick Off Pilot Program in Nairobi for IT Skills Training, 07/06/07
The new program provides on-site and online learning for relief workers to improve technology skills and increase emergency response capacity...

NetHope Chairman Selected as one of the Top Most Influential People in IT, 03/16/07
#80 Edward Granger-Happ, Save the Children Foundation. CTO; chairman of NetHope, which is creating technology for relief workers and natural disaster vicitims.

Cisco Brings James Bond Briefcase to Disasters, 06/25/06
Ask the average network administrator about Cisco Systems' MCK or NRK, and you're likely to get a blank stare. That's because, other than international relief agencies, few know about Cisco's skunk works project—a network in a box designed to deliver in the worst circumstances. The box, which is about the size of a large suitcase, goes by two names—the Mobile Communications Kit and the NetHope Relief Kit. Cisco doesn't sell the James Bond-like kit directly...

Microsoft Earmarks $41 Million in Software, Cash for Disaster Relief, 02/22/06
Microsoft is supporting NetHope and the Interagency Working Group on Emergency Capacity Building Project, two groups of leading nongovernmental organizations using technology to enhance emergency response and relief operations. Microsoft Corp. today announced it is donating $41 million in software and cash to NetHope and the Interagency Working Group on Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB)...

IT Lends a Helping Hand: An interview with NetHope's Edward Granger-Happ, 01/28/05
The relief workers toiling in the tsunami-battered nations of southern Asia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia don't just need money; they need IT support. Like all professionals, their effectiveness and productivity can be amplified by IT—only in their case it means saving more lives and restoring communities more quickly. But field workers for organizations such as Save the Children, Oxfam, and CARE must do their work in nightmarish conditions, often without electricity, phone lines and the human basics...

Relief, High-Tech Style: Tsunami Aid Workers Rely On Sat Phones, GPS, Internet To Communicate, Coordinate, 01/05/05
Relief worker Rui Lopes, an American from Save the Children, is traveling to tsunami-ravaged Indonesia this week to ferry some critical supplies: a package of four Internet phones, a networking device called a router from Cisco Systems Inc. and other gear his organization will use to set up a sophisticated wireless network, on the fly, for as many as 50 people. It's a far cry from rice, blankets and potable water. But these days, disaster relief has gone high-tech....