ProjectLIGTAS

ProjectLIGTAS (projectligtas.com) is a free, browser-based emergency-response and disaster-management platform covering Mega Manila — Metro Manila plus Bulacan, Rizal, and Cavite provinces, an area the site says covers more than 15 million people across 63 cities and municipalities. Without requiring an app install, it lets residents report floods and emergencies from a mobile browser, provides a live disaster and evacuation-center map, integrates PAGASA weather alerts and typhoon tracking, and offers flood-risk intelligence built on UP NOAH data. During Typhoon Carina in 2024, when the Marikina River overflowed its banks, the platform was reportedly used as a live situational map, with residents submitting real-time flood reports to pinpoint the worst-hit streets.

The platform is not a formally structured company with a disclosed team or funding — it is credited on its own site to ‘DevWithZach,’ identified via his own portfolio site as Zach Campaner, a Metro Manila-based fractional CTO and certified cybersecurity professional with 15+ years of engineering experience who has built 150+ projects for over 100 clients. A Taguig.com feature on the platform is headlined, in Filipino, ‘Isang Specialist Bumuo ng Emergency Response Platform’ — ‘One specialist built [this] emergency response platform’ — directly confirming it was built by a single developer rather than a funded team. ProjectLIGTAS also maintains a modest Facebook page (74 likes as of this research). No funding, revenue, registered legal entity, or founding date was found; this reads as an independently built civic-tech platform rather than a venture-backed startup.

Residents in flood-prone Metro Manila communities often lack a single, real-time source for flood reports, evacuation-center status, and typhoon alerts during an active disaster.

Residents of Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, and Cavite who need real-time flood and emergency information during a disaster.

Runs entirely in a mobile browser with no app install required, and was built and is maintained by a single independent developer rather than a funded team.