For anyone who’s ever gotten a “text me when you get home” message from a loved one, the value of communication is apparent. But not everyone in the country has the infrastructure of working internet or cell service to use. And even in places where people do, natural or man-made disasters can take people off technologies and platforms they’ve become reliant on. That’s bad.

With these problems in mind, Dumbo’s Mozilla Foundation teamed up with the National Science Foundation to try to figure out some solutions. The groups created the WINS Challenge (Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society) and have $2 million in prize money to dole out for successful ideas and prototypes.

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