The Board

Built by the people who show up.

A responder network can't be run from a tower. It's held by people — and some of the seats here are empty on purpose, waiting for the ones who'll fill them.

Who started it

The founder

T
Tia
Founder
Systems thinker, counsellor, and a parent who waited twelve minutes. Turned that wait into a question — how do we make the nearest human the first responder? — and then into this.

Why she built it

"There was help within five hundred metres of me the whole time. It just had no way to reach me. I couldn't un-know that. So we built the channel — so no one else has to stand where I stood."

The emergency button is one feature of the wider OMXUS system — identity you hold yourself, a justice ladder shaped like a ripple, and a phone-to-phone network owned by the people on it. The button is where that idea meets the worst four minutes of someone's life.

The people it takes

Seats at the table

These are the roles a responder network needs. The dashed seats are open — genuinely. If one of them is you, we want to hear from you.

OMXUS
Systems & network
The team building the identity, verification and phone-to-phone mesh the button rides on.
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Clinical lead
Open seat
A paramedic, nurse or emergency doctor to keep the first-aid guidance honest and current.
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Community organiser
Open seat
Someone who can turn a neighbourhood of willing people into a network that actually shows up.
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You
Open seat
The first responder is meant to be ordinary. This board is meant to be, too. Bring what you have.
"The whole point is that the helper is ordinary — the person already on your street. So the people running it should be ordinary too. That's not a weakness. It's the design." — on why the seats stay open

See yourself in one of those seats?

Tell us who you are and how you'd help. There's room, and there's work.