ITU-D -FLASH • 2015 JANUARY – MARCH 2015 DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Dear ITU-D Members,In the last ITU-D Flash, I promised to make this newsletter more informative and ITU-D's results more visible.As a start, we have launched a new story-series on the ITU-D website, titled These short feature stories will show the impact of our cooperation and the results achieved. The year has been off to a busy start. We have signed an agreement with the Government of Jamaica to give new impetus to the National Computer Incident Response Team, and one with the Caribbean Telecommunications Union and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization for the development of satellite telecommunications capacity and emergency communications solutions for the Caribbean Islands.We have deployed satellite communication equipment to flood-hit Malawi and, recently, to Vanuatu, hit by Cyclone Pam on 13 March. In February, with the cooperation of the Government of Japan, we launched the MDRU - the movable and deployable ICT resource unit - in the coastal town of San Remigio in Cebu, in the Philippines.We have also made a significant contribution in the fight against Ebola. The “Ebola-Info-Sharing” app, which we launched towards the end of last year, can be downloaded for free on IOS and Android platforms by the public and anybody involved in the fight against the Ebola outbreak; it is available in both English and French. The tweet on the Ebola application was one of our most popular and was potentially viewed over 4 million times. We are now working to extend it to other epidemics such as Chikungunya and Dengue fever.I am also happy to share with you that the reports by the m-Powering Development and Smart Sustainable Development Model Initiatives are now available on the ITU-D website. These reports were presented to the last meeting of Broadband Commission I would like to thank you all for your significant support and dedication as we continue to build upon our success in the year ahead.Sincerely,Brahima Sanou ITU-D -FLASH