Anytime! is a cooperative communication platform offering real-time help according to user’s language, nationality and location.

To solve “Disaster information network for foreigners” issue (https://codeforresilience.org/challenge/disaster-information-network-...), it's crucial to build a service having high usability, popularity and trust. Therefore, Anytime! is designed not only for emergency situations but also for daily life.

In 2013, there were more than 220 million immigrants. That number will double in the next 30 years. In addition, the number of overseas travellers exceeds 1 billion and increases 4~5% annually.

These trends of globalization ask new questions: for instance, how to help immigrants and travellers involved in emergencies? Governments have not reached a suitable solution. We believe that we have.

Leveraging the worldwide use of smartphones (over 1.4 billion in 2013) Anytime! provides a cooperative communication platform offering real-time help according to a user’s language, nationality and location.
It aids foreigners, travellers and people who need location related information in usable languages, especially in emergency situations.

We believe Anytime! is the simplest and most efficient solution for emergency information when in a foreign country.

Our team has Japanese and Vietnamese members. We were inspired to create Anytime! by our world travels and living abroad. Some of our members were foreigners living in the US when the terror attacks on 9/11/2001. Others were foreigners living in Japan during the Great East Japan Earthquake on 3/11/2011. All of us experienced　the difficulty of reaching certain information or help and witnessed　the panic of helpless people. For this reason, we are committed to helping non-native people.

The concept of building Anytime! won the Google Award in the Code For Resilience hackathon event in Tokyo, Japan (Feb 2014).

HOW TO DOWNLOAD

1. Use iPhone/iPad running iOS 7+
2. Open following link from Mobile Safari browser

3. Input username/ password to login
** Currently Anytime! is available for the judges only. If you would like to try the app, please contact us at: for the detailed instruction
4. Tap on the link in the page to download Anytime!

FOR MORE DETAILS

Please checkout:
- Anytime! product introduction video (Attached below, English/Japanese/Vietnamese subtitles are available)

- Feature demo video channel:
- Anytime! home page:
- Facebook page:

REFERENCES

- International Tourism demand exceeds expectations in the first half of 2013 (UNWTO): http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2013-08-25/international-tourism-de...
- World Migration Report 2010 - The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&c...
- Global mobile statistics 2014 Part A: Mobile subscribers; handset market share: mobile operators: http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a
- Mobile Future in Focus 2013 (comScore): http://www.slideshare.net/EduardoLiviano/mobile-future-infocus
- Annual Smartphone Sales Surpassed Sales of Feature Phones for the first time in 2013 (Gartner): http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2665715