The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) is a global network of organizations that work together to provide shared communications services in humanitarian emergencies.
The scale, severity and complexity of life-threatening needs across Syria and over its borders is, in a word, overwhelming. Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Coordinator Balamine Ouattara opens up about the challenges and achievements of extending communications connectivity to humanitarians in a country battered by a seemingly endless conflict.