ITU has been providing MIRP service for its onsite meetings for almost ten years. As a result of Covid-19, all meetings became fully virtual, social distancing and travel restrictions means support personnel, including interpreters have restricted access to ITU, but ITU meetings must go on. Interpreters were not trained and did not have the means to perform interpretation from their homes. Most delegates were not familiar with attending virtual meetings and very few web-conference platforms support multilingualism at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown.

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• International

• Remote and rural communities
• ITU membership

Knowhow can be shared with other interested parties. ITU also shared this experience with other UN organizations through the Chief Executive Board.

The project uses standard equipment, common web-conference platforms and 'normal' people with new developed skills. Hence easily replicable and can adopt easily to new market development and requirements.

The project allows ITU membership to continue their work at ITU, which is essential for the advancement of the world in areas covered by the work of ITU.