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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―