Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:57
A new communications service for disaster relief has been successfully deployed in full operational field service for the first time...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:56
The findings of a new research programme intended to measure the impact of mobile communications on the lives and prosperity of farming communities in some of the world's poorest countries have been announced...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Monday, 05 September 2011 11:46
Disaster relief efforts through South and Southeast Asia will be augmented by a new partnership between Ericsson and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel)...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Monday, 20 June 2011 16:05
With more than 42 million refugees in the world, many affected by political conflict and natural disasters, the added desperation of being separated from their family and friends without feasible means of tracing them can only compound their suffering...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Monday, 08 November 2010 11:39
ITU has dispatched thirty broadband satellite terminals to Haiti as the country prepares for hurricane Tomas...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Thursday, 04 November 2010 00:00
ITU has deployed 100 broadband satellite terminals in the flood-affected districts of Pakistan. In the aftermath of the disaster, ITU’s emergency telecommunications team has been working closely with the Pakistan administration to restore vital communication links. The satellite terminals are being deployed to restore communications and provide a platform from which telemedicine applications/services will be provided in remote areas that remain difficult to access and where medical attention is a priority in the aftermath of the disaster...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Wednesday, 03 November 2010 10:13
ITU has deployed a hybrid of 40 broadband satellite terminals in an effort to restore vital communication links in the aftermath of a tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake and a volcanic eruption that hit the Indonesian archipelago in two separate incidents...
Development Trends - Humanitarian Projects
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 10:41
The ITU is leading an internation effort to speed up reconstruction of Haiti’s crucial telecommunications and ICT infrastructure destroyed in the earthquake of 12 January this year...
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