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On 23 March 2014, Guinea’s Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a rapidly evolving outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD, or “Ebola”) in the south-eastern region of the country.
WFP's Fast IT and Telecommunications invention team - FITTEST - deploy all over the world to deliver life-saving communications services.
WFP's Fast IT and Telecommunications invention team - FITTEST - deploy all over the world to deliver life-saving communications services.
To save lives and protect livelihoods, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) supports governments in strengthening their emergency preparedness and response capacities to mitigate the effects of disasters and reduce their impacts on vulnerable populations.
ROME – Emergency food supplies from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have been delivered for distribution on the Caribbean island of Dominica which was devastated by Hurricane Maria early last week.
SUVA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in its role as lead of the Pacific Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), has joined with the Fiji National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) to support a High Frequency Radio Communication System training course.
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Local communities are the first responders, and all those supporting the emergency operation will have access to vital communications services. By 2020 that is.
In an era of ever increasing humanitarian disasters and constantly evolving digital technology, Oxfam is gathering evidence about how Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) can improve the quality and efficiency of our work.
Ahmed Yusuf grew up on a street called Million Roads in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state in Nigeria. Moved by the tumultuous times in his country, Ahmed now works as an Emergency Telecommunications Sector (ETS) IT assistant in Maiduguri.
A visual recap of the ETC in 2019: operations, accomplishments, training experiences, key events and partner developments - hover over the text to find links to related reading.
ETC 2020: Preparing for tomorrow's humanitarian technology needs today
Today, when an emergency strikes anywhere across the globe, the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) network kicks into action deploying people and equipment necessary to provide urgent communications se
By Ria Sen: ETC Preparedness Officer
The joint report on Women, ICT and emergency telecommunications: opportunities and constraints, prepared by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC), was launched at the High-level Dialogue: Women and emergency telecommunications: ensuring
Directorate for Development Cooperation of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"The solution we have developed provides satellite communications and voice connectivity to humanitarian workers in the field.
Just a few years ago, thoughts of Yemen might have conjured up fairytale images of Sana’a’s famed Old City with its baked brick towers and qamariya windows or the perfumed frankincense trees that cemented its place on the ancient Arabian trade routes.
Only one country separates Nigeria from Togo, where Dosseh Lassey, a World Food Programme (WFP) security telecommunications specialist is from.
The 35th Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET): ICT Humanitarian Forum will be held April 29 - 30, 2015 in Dubai, UAE.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Information, Science, Telecommunications and Technology and the Office of Disaster Preparedness of Dominica are conducting
The World Bank has approved a loan to connect Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu via submarine fibre-optic cable.
World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2017 – today the world is honouring all humanitarian workers serving people affected by man-made and natural disasters worldwide.
On today’s World Humanitarian Day 2024, the ETC joins the call to end attacks against civilians and aid workers.
2023 marked the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers. 2024 could be even worse.
Geneva, 20 June - Today, World Refugee Day, is an incredible opportunity to salute the strength, resolve and courage of the men, women and children across the world, who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict and upheaval.
The ETC to implement the new Inter-Agency Humanitarian Internet Support Project
Sitting in his prefab in the remote South Sudanese state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal on 22 September 2014, Peter Kout, Red Cross Director in Aweil, received an email from his official domain.
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) was activated on 28th April 2015 to provide common telecommunication services to the humanitarian community responding to the crisis. WFP is leading ETC activities.
ETC Yemen project includes:
Since the start of Yemen’s civil war in September 2014, there are now an estimated 21.6 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and protection services―