The
UN Foundation’s Rapid Response Emergency
Telecommunication project works with Télécoms
Sans Frontières, UNICEF, the Organization
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA), and the World Food Programme to improve
access to life-saving technology and telecommunications
tools in natural disasters, conflicts, and
famines.
We support the World Food Programme
(WFP) in its role as the UN’s
“lead service provider”
for security communications in emergencies
around the world. WFP is working to
develop additional information communications
technology (ICT) resources to strengthen
emergency response capacity. WFP graduated
its first class of UN emergency ICT
team leaders in March 2007 and will
soon complete the development of a
set of global emergency ICT and technical
deployment standards for use by the
humanitarian relief community.
We support Télécoms
Sans Frontières (TSF), a humanitarian
NGO, to deploy rapid response telecom
teams to join UN missions anywhere
in the world within 48 hours of an
emergency. Through the initiative,
up to four TSF teams are on call 24
hours a day, seven days a week to
deploy with the UN to natural disasters
and humanitarian crises. These teams
of telecom experts are among the first
in emergency areas where they work
to rapidly establish emergency telecommunication
centers. Relief workers rely on these
centers for the assessment, logistics,
and coordination needed to save lives.
With UN Foundation and
Vodafone Group Foundation funding,
TSF teams have joined the UN in 14
emergency response missions in 2006-2007.
Learn more by exploring the interactive
map below.
Global
Partners for Emergency
Communications
The Vodafone Group Foundation
and UN Foundation Technology
Partnership joins World
Food Programme to improve
communications during
humanitarian crises |
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Global
Partners for Emergency
Communications
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