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- Why do we celebrate World Telecommunication Day?
- History and guidelines
- Photo gallery
- Draft Convention on the Provision of Telecommunications Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations
- Telecommunications and humanitarian endeavour: the ICRC example
Launching press conference
- Statement by Pekka Tarjanne, ITU Secretary-General
- Statement by Jean-Philippe Maitre, President, State Council of Geneva
- Statement by Cornelio Sommaruga, President, ICRC
- Statement by Martin Griffiths, Deputy to the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs and Director of the UNDHA
- ICRC Telecommunications' world map
Feature stories for the media
- Are You Alright?
- Is This A Radio?
- UNHCR uses Satellites (and Windmills)
- Telecommunications in the Work of the Red Cross Movement
Other documents
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- Dallas, Texas WTD-97 Event Plan
- Legal Issues in Disaster Communications
- The role of the media in hazard mitigation and disaster management
- Roundtable on the media, scientific information and disasters
- Roundtable on the media, scientific information and disasters at the United Nations World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction
- Media, disaster relief and images of the developing world: strategies for rapid, accurate and effective coverage of complex stories from around the globe
- The International Radio Amateur Union and WTD 97
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