AS the Philippines, her home country is prone to disasters and calamities, Filipino techpreneur Charmaine 'Ishka' Villacisneros worked to bring the United States 911 emergency response technology to the country three years ago, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, through the Next Generation Advanced (NGA) 911.

As chief financial officer/director of administration at California-based NGA 911 LLC, it has been her vision to establish the 9-1-1 system in the Philippines, the first outside the US and even ahead of other states.