Disaster Management, Central Africa, Africa: Recently, ITU and Cameroon ran joint a workshop on strengthening ICT for disaster management. The conclusions included a plea for more of the cross-border co-operation and the waiving of paper-work aspired to at the Tampere Convention...

Disaster Management, Analysis, Global: One of the most important subjects Developing Telecoms reports on regularly is Disaster Management. We were therefore pleasantly surprised to find that the Economist had recently published an article with the above title. Subtitled “You don't have to be big to make a difference” it is reproduced here, to reach a wider audience...

Disaster management, VSAT, Satellite, Global:  One of our aims at Developing Telecoms is to compile articles on disaster management and emergencies, so that executives in the emerging markets who are tasked either with preparing for such situations or, far worse, having to cope with them, can draw on the experience of others. One internationally respected organisation, the Global VSAT Forum, continues to respond to the industry’s call for heightened awareness of disasters.

News, Disaster Management, Lebanon, MENA: Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has recently connected an EMC Quick Deployment kit which is now fully operational in Beirut, Lebanon.

Analysis, Disaster management, Communications, Global: Developing Telecoms publishes this release as a part of its comprehensive and long-standing coverage of the theme of disaster management. We do not mean any endorsement or criticism of the products or systems mentioned.

Disaster Management, Satellite, UAE, Global: The ITU and Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company have concluded an agreement to provide portable satellite terminals to assist countries in disaster mitigation and relief.

Contracts, Satellite, Global: Monitoring of tsunami waves and conditions is set to improve as Iridium has won the contract to provide satellite data links for the 31 ocean buoys that the US Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Data Center is now deploying.