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