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1. ETC response update - Focus on Bentiu mission
2. HISP deployment update
3. Roundtable discussions
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IT Emergency Equipment Fair
How do you support your staff in the deep field?
What kind of IT equipment do you provide them with?
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1. Security update
2. ETC response update
3. HISP deployment update
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1. Security update
2. ETC response update
3. HISP deployment update
4. Roundtable discussions
Agenda:
1. Security update
2. ETC response update
3. HISP deployment update
Agenda:
1. ETC response update
2. HISP deployment update
3. Roundtable discussions
Hunger; insecurity; displacement; remoteness; natural disasters; disease – the challenges that face the people of South Sudan are immense. And, after almost half a century of civil war, even the most basic infrastructure to assist expanding humanitarian operations is virtually non-existent...
Plagued by violence, political instability and famine, the exodus of South Sudanese refugees into neighbouring countries continues at an alarming rate.
“You northern hemisphere guys get so excited about stars. At home we get this every night,” says Ryan Twittey, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Coordinator for the Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique in his usual say-it-like-it-is way.
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Jointly managed by Start and CDAC Networks, the DEPP Innovation Labs is a two-year £10 million programme, funded by UK Aid, which will set up a network of labs to identify and suppor
In May 2025, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) in the Pacific, led by the World Food Programme (WFP), kicked off a series of intensive, week-long training sessions to strengthen national disaster response capabilities across the region.
The ETC is supporting the telecommunications response to the conflict in Gaza which broke out on 07 October 2023.
In the first feature of our new ‘ETC from the field’ series, Oluwashina Abayomi Oni—Information Management Officer with the WFP-led Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS) in Nigeria—reflects on a recent WFP deployment to flood-hit Adamawa.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a timely reminder of the importance of digital vigilance across humanitarian operations.
This week in Gitega, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), WFP Burundi, and the Government of Burundi joined forces to launch a dynamic three-day Emergency Telecommunications Training and Preparedness Workshop.
Sudan’s communications infrastructure has been heavily impacted since the outbreak of conflict on 15 April 2023, as a result of direct damage to telecommunications towers, electricity outages and fuel shortages, and severe congestion in areas where internally displaced people are gath
Since the outbreak of conflict on 15 April 2023, Sudan’s communications infrastructure has been heavily impacted.
Three weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean, ETS is on the ground in Jamaica, supporting the Office of Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Management (ODPEM) and coordinating with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and partners to power connectivity fo
Local capacity building is a priority area for the ETC heading into 2019 as the situation in Yemen becomes more complex.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was formally activated in January 2013 to provide common telecommunication services to the humanitarian community responding to the crisis in Syria and surrounding countries.
Since its activation on 14 January 2013, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC)—now operating as the Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS) since July 2025—has provided shared security communications and internet connectivity services to humanitarian responders across Syria and n