When disaster strikes, the tools communities need most are precisely the ones that stop working. SafetyNet is solar-powered resilience infrastructure that operates with zero internet dependency — broadcasting its own WiFi network, free to every community that needs it. Neighbour Up Charitable Foundation deploys it where it's needed most.
Every existing emergency coordination platform assumes a functioning internet connection. That assumption fails first — in exactly the scenarios these platforms exist for.
The communities with the least connectivity are also the communities with the fewest alternative resources. That is not a gap in the market. It is a moral failure of the market.
Built to work together, designed to work alone. Every module operates fully offline on solar mesh hardware.
Real-time incident coordination, hyper-local mapping, and life-saving guides — all operating on mesh WiFi with zero internet.
Neighbourhood watch, street-level safety mapping, and location-scoped community communication for the time between emergencies.
Enter community information once and have it appear across every connected website. A living resource map that grows richer with every emergency.
Raspberry Pi 4B on S618 solar mesh hardware. One-step installer. Deployable by a community volunteer in under ten minutes.
Most community platforms fail the bootstrapping problem. SafetyNet solves it — emergency participation automatically builds the community resource map.
The Neighbour Up Charitable Foundation holds all platform IP under an open-source AGPL licence. Two commercial partners operate under Foundation licence — returning surplus to fund free deployment in the communities that need it most.
Every commercial council deployment subsidises a free node in a Pacific island community or a remote marae. The governance structure makes that permanent — not a promise, a legal commitment.
Holds all platform IP under AGPL licence. Governs the ecosystem. Manages the open data commons. Deploys free nodes in underserved communities. Registered NZ charitable trust.
Develops and deploys SafetyNet, NeighbourLink, and CommunityNet under Foundation licence. Sells council deployment packages and operates the online advertising platform.
Delivers community disaster preparedness education and survival skills through survivalskool.com. Creates the illustrated First Aid and Survival content for the platform.
Pacific island nations face the world's highest per-capita disaster exposure. They have the least access to emergency coordination infrastructure. SafetyNet was built with exactly these environments in mind — and Neighbour Up Charitable Foundation is committed to deploying it there free of charge.
SafetyNet is built. It works. It is running on a solar node right now. The question is how fast we can reach the communities that cannot afford to wait.