Red de Acción Comunitaria is an open-source early warning system, based upon community organization and a communications system to empower vulnerable groups during and after natural disasters. The system utilizes a dedicated communications network meant to work in scenarios where traditional communications will not work, improving the response capabilities of communities at risk and allowing to articulate humanitarian efforts through simple and effective messages.

Our kit supplies a solution for the greatest need after a natural disaster: conectivity. Due to the vulnerability of physical infraestructures, as well of communications and electricity during and after a natural disaster, damages to these elements reduce the possibility of establishing communication between vulnerable communities and disaster relief organizations in order to receive early warnings and to generate a recount of damages in the first hours after an emergency.

The system provides an alternative communication channel that works within a decentralized wireless network, which allows to consolidate and to communicate a historical record of qualitative indicators regarding the situation of communities, improving decision-taking capabilities in regards to how and where to distribute help within a territory during the first hours after a tragedy.