The Workshop on technology to mitigate earthquakes and Tsunamis effects and EWBS prototype demonstration on tsunamis emergency alert will focus in Latin American countries, will be held in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the Servicio Integrado de Seguridad ECU 911- Samborondón, 12 and 13 September, 2016, in collaboration with the Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (MINTEL) of Ecuador, the Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos (SGR) of Ecuador and the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Capacitación de Telecomunicaciones de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (INICTEL-UNI) of Peru.
The World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-14) held in Dubai, identified natural disasters as a major threat to socio-economic development and adopted emergency telecommunications as one of the regional initiatives for the Americas region.
