The World Telecommunication Development Conference that was held in Hyderabad, India in 2010 (WTDC-2010), identified natural disasters as a major threat to socio-economic development and adopted emergency telecommunications as one of the regional Initiatives for almost all the regions including in the Americas. In light of this, the International Telecommunication Union and the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones of Guatemala, are jointly organizing an event, "Multi-stakeholder Forum on the Role of Telecommunications/ICT in Disaster Management and Climate Change”, to be held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, from 5 to 7 November 2012.

This sub-regional event will bring together national agencies involved in disaster risk reduction and disaster management, private telecommunication entities, United Nations Agencies, and Non-Governmental Organizations to share knowledge, discuss and exchange views on how to assist countries and communities to mitigate, respond and cope with natural disasters.

The venue for the forum is:

Centro de Capacitación en Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (Centro TICs)
Instituto Técnico de Capacitación y Productividad (INTECAP)
Calle del Estadio Mateo Flores 8-79 Zona 5
Guatemala City, 01005
Guatemala

PBX:       +502 2410 5555 ext. 911

Site:       http://www.intecap.edu.gt

The event will be conducted in both Spanish and English.

The venue for the forum is:

Hotel Marriott Bogotá
Av. El Dorado # 69b – 53
Tel.         (57) 1 485 1111
Fax.        (57) 1 485 1112
Bogotá / Colombia
Site:       www.marriott.com/bogmc

Workshop on the Use of Telecommunication/ICTs for Disaster Management: Saving Lives
Harare, Zimbabwe, 28 - 30 NOVEMBER 2011

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE, E-WASTE AND CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS WORKSHOP
Zambia, 28 NOVEMBER - 2 DECEMBER 2011

Workshop on Saving Lives Through Emergency Telecommunications
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 16 -18 November 2011

Workshop on the use of Telecommunications in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
Mar del Plata, Argentina, 29 August 2011

ITU ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL MULTI-STAKEHOLDER FORUM ON EMERGENCY TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 8 – 11 July 2011

The International Telecommunication Union and the Government of Haiti will be organizing a Round Table on the Reconstruction of Haiti’s telecommunications sector in the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 earthquake, with its development partners on June 29-30, 2010 in Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. The Round Table has the support of the Government of Barbados and that of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

The International Telecommunication Union attaches high importance to the Round Table Meeting as it provides an opportunity for the ITU to engage our development partners in meaningful discussions.

The venue for the round table meeting is:

Hilton Hotel

Needham’s Point,
St. Michael, Barbados
Tel: +246 467 5684
Fax: +246 434 5792
Email: teresa.nicholls@hilton.com

Relevant documentation about the Forum is available at the WSIS Forum 2010 webpage: www.wsis.org/forum

This event will address policy, regulatory, and technological and climate change issues. A case study based approach will be used to assist countries design and integrate national emergency telecommunications plans into national disaster management plans.
The event will provide an overview of disaster management today and the role that information and communication technologies play in this area covering all the phases of disaster management. Sessions will include regulatory challenges and discussions on challenges resulting from climate change and demonstrate the role of ICT in disaster risk reduction.

The venue for the workshop is:

Grand Imperial Hotel

Nile Avenue
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: +256 (0)414 311048
Fax: +256 (0)414 250606
Email: reservations@gihotel.co.ug

• Tentative agenda

• Invitation letter

• Registration form

• Fellowship form

• Draft Agenda

For more information about this event, please click here

• Final Report

• Programme

• List of Participants

• Presentations

• Invitation Letter

• Information Note

• Registration Form

• Fellowship Form

Dates: 10 December (Monday) – 12 December (Wednesday) 2007

Venue: Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), Geneva, Switzerland

For further details:

Sponsors:

ITU work on emergency telecommunications contributes to the Humanitarian Development Summit I7-19 October 2007

• The ITU sub-regional workshop on the role of telecommunications/ICT in Disaster Management for the Central African Region will take place in Yaoundé, Cameroon from 30 May to 1st June 2007. The working languages will be English and French with simultaneous interpretation.

• Les langues de travail seront le Français et l’Anglais, avec une traduction simultanée.

• Final Report: (English, French, Русский, 中文, Spanish, عربي)

• Présentations

• Press Release (English<, 中文, Русский, عربي)  

Documents in English	Documents in French
Tentative Programme Invitation Letter Background documents: Bandung Final Report, Alexandria Final Report Invitation Letter with Fellowship forms Information Note Registration Form Fellowship Form	Programme provisoire Lettre d'invitation Compte Rendu   Bandung Alexandria Lettre d'invitation avec formulaire de demande de bourse Note d'informations Formulaire d'enregistrement Formulaire de demande de bourse

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the League of Arab States (LAS) and a number of other United Nations Agencies in cooperation with the Arab Academy for Science & Technology & Maritime Transport (ITU-D sector member) are organizing a Joint Regional Conference. The event is on “Disaster: Relief and Management: International Cooperation & Role of ICT”, and will take place in Alexandria, Egypt, from 14 to 17 April 2007.

It is hoped that this event will provide more guidance on technical, policy and institutional issues in the development of networks, systems and strengthen regional cooperation mechanisms in the area of communications for disaster management, with emphasis on emergency situations in developing countries and particularly in the least developed countries within the Arab Region.

 As part of ITU’s effort to promote multi-stakeholder partnerships, this regional event is being held in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS) and different UN organizations, including WHO and UNEP, and other regional organizations such as the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE).

Countries from the Arab Region, which have acceded to the Tampere Convention namely Morocco, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, and those that have signed this treaty i.e. Sudan and Mauritania, are kindly invited to submit papers reflecting their views and experiences with this Convention.

• Final Report    English  Russian Spanish  French Chinese Arabic

• Presentations

• Final Programme

• Final list of Participants

• Photo Gallery

• Press Release

• Invitation Letter

• Information Note

• Registration Form

• Full Fellowship Application form 

• Partial Fellowship Application form

This workshop contributes to the work of the ITU-D Study Group Question 22/2 (Utilization of ICT for disaster management, resources, and active and passive space-based sensing systems as they apply to disaster and emergency relief situation), and to the implementation of Resolution 34 (The role of telecommunications/ICT in early warning and mitigation of disasters and humanitarian assistance), adopted by the World Telecommunications Development Conference that was held in Doha (March, 2006).

The adoption of Resolution 34 and Question 22/2 followed a series of natural disasters such as the December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake that triggered a series of devastating tsunamis, and the India-Pakistan border earthquake of October 2005 that caused untold suffering for the populations affected and also disrupted economic and social activities. In recent months a number of natural disasters have been experienced by a number of other countries including Indonesia that has been affected by earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions. It is hoped that this event will contribute to the knowledge base of disaster mitigation by bringing together experts to map practical strategies.

• Final Report       English Chinese Spanish  Russian  French Arabic

• Presentations

• List of Participants

• Photo Gallery

• Tentative Programme                                         

• Invitation Letter

• Information Note

• Notes for Speakers

• Registration Form

• Fellowship Form

  Sponsorship provided by:

ITU and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are jointly organizing a Regional Workshop on Disaster Communications aimed at providing guidance on technical, policy and institutional issues in the development of networks, systems, and possible regional cooperation mechanisms for communications supporting  disaster management with the emphasis on emergency situations for the countries in Asia and the Pacific, especially the Least Developed Countries, Developing Countries as well as Small Island Developing States.

• Final Report
• Presentations
• Final Programme
• List of Participants
• Photo Gallery
• Press Release

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Co-financed by:

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) co-organized the Using ICT for Effective Disaster Management Caribbean Forum 2006, which was supported by the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organizations (CANTO) and hosted by the Jamaican Office of Utilities Regulation. The event took place between 26th & 28th September in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The objective of this 'call for action' event was to provide the organisers with an opportunity to work with countries in the region to put in place the necessary platform for disaster prevention, preparedness and relief. This event went beyond the abstract and looked at practical ways through which disasters can be mitigated by using Information and Communication Technologies.

• Final Report

• Agenda

• Presentations

• Outcomes

• Photo Gallery

• Closing Press Release

The ITU is co-organizing a training course on Amateur Radio Administration together with the Centre of Excellence for the French Speaking African Countries (ESMT) and in collaboration with International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) in Dakar, Senegal from 24 to 27 Julio 2006. The primary objective of the course is to train regulators (or prospective regulators) on administration of the amateur service and amateur-satellite service in developing countries for managing disaster relief communications and to organize an amateur radio society.

• Course information

• Invitation letter (in French only)

• Course programme

• Fellowship request form (only for least developed countries before 10 July 2006) (in French only)

• List of fellows

• Background documents

• Presentations

• Outcome

• Photo Library

• Background documents

• Presentations

• Outcome

• Photo Library

• Presentations

  • "Securing Access to ICTs in Natural Disaster - Lessons from Japan

  • "Easing the way to Disaster Mitigation: The Tampere Convention"

• "ITU Work on Telecommunications for Disaster Relief"

  • Role of ITU in Emergency Telecommunications

  • ITU-R Activities - Reducing the Effects of Disaster

  • Telecommunications for Disaster Relief and Mitigation

• Declaration     

• Speech

• Documents

• ITU’s report on the thematic session “Preparedness for Effective Response”: Telecommunications Saves Lives: Role of Information and Communication Technologies

• Critical Role of Emergency Telecommunications in Disaster Reduction, for “Know Risk” – UN Publication of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction.

• Message from Mr Yoshio Utsumi Secretary-General International Telecommunication Union, for “Know Risk” – UN Publication of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction.

• Tampere Convention on Emergency Telecommunications: International Treaty to Ease Access to Life-Saving Technology for Relief Workers, for “Know Risk” – UN Publication of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction.

• Presentations

• “Telecommunications Saves Lives: Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Disaster Reduction”

• “Keeping People Connected, Keeping People Safe”

• “ICT in Disaster Reduction and the Japanese Challenge for Global Standards”

• “Disaster Communications and the Information Society”