Tech Volunteers Rush To Save Turkey S Earthquake Survivors
But soon the pair got to work. Kılıç is the founding engineer and Özvataf the CTO of software startup Datapad. Both are well-known members of the Turkish tech scene—Özvataf was previously an engineering director for Getir, Turkey’s first decacorn—and between them they have nearly three decades of experience in the industry. They began mobilizing colleagues over Twitter, and within hours they had brought together a rapid response movement, dubbed simply “Earthquake Help Project,” bootstrapping tech to help NGOs and rescue teams on the ground....