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AYA: Product and tech community deploying solutions for the earthquake releaf

by dorukane on 2/11/23, 10:38 AM with 1 comments

Read about their open call to the worldwide community below. If you want to support their cause and the relief of the earthquake affecting hundred thousands of people in the area visit https://ahbap.org/disasters-turkey

Live map of help calls appearing on social media: https://afetharita.com/en?lat=36.31641425239603&lng=36.05987548828126&zoom=10

A platform to meet the needs of victims with NGOs companies or individuals: https://deprem.io/

Open call to worldwide tech community:

"We are volunteers already professionally involved in the software industry.

After the earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, we marked the notifications we saw on social media on the map and announced that we would develop a software that aims to help the authorities and those in the field.

The call we made to our social media networks, where we usually share professional content, quickly resonated and enabled thousands of professionals who are experts in their fields to join the project voluntarily.

In the first days after the disaster, AFAD, AKUT, AHBAP etc. we provided the data flow to NGOs. We received individual and infrastructural support from many corporate companies and joined forces.

Currently, more than 20,000 volunteer software industry employees are on our discord server and are developing open source information systems that can assist field teams end-to-end in the event of any disaster."

  • by monimen on 2/13/23, 8:07 PM

    Superb !