| Emergency Telecommunication - Project under regular budget |
| Advice to the Member-States on the Emergency Telecommunications |
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| Conference Location |
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Tampere, Finland
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| Date/Duration |
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June 6, 1998 - August 31, 1998
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| Project Description |
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In co-operation with the United Nations Department for Humanitarian Affairs and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UNESCO helped to identify and sponsor a number of participants from Central Asia to take part in the Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency Telecommunications, ICET'98, held in Tampere, Finland, June 1998. The Convention reflects the recognition by the conference of the devastating effects of natural disasters on societies and the environment and the need to provide timely, co-ordinated and effective relief. It established an international framework (Treaty) to facilitate the provision of telecommunication resources for disaster mitigation and relief operations where previously they had been impeded by regulatory barriers.
UNESCO sponsored participation of telecommunication officials from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the conference (as well as from the Republic of the Congo). They signed the Tampere Convention; the text and details of which can be found on the Web Site below.The project was developed in association with telecommunications companies in the three participating countries dealing through UNESCO
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| Mission Reports |
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On request via email to: Dana Ziyasheva
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| Budget Details |
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$10,000
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| Contact Name in the Field |
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Mr. M. Harbi,
Special Advisor to the Secretary-General,
International Telecommunications Union,
Place des Nations,CH-1211 Geneva 20,
Switzerland.
Telephone: +41 22 730 5571
Fax: +41 22 730 5137
E-mail: harbi@itu.int
Mr. M Zimmermann,
Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer,
United Nations,
Telephone: +41 22 917 3516
Fax: +41 22 917 0208
E-mail: hans.zimmermann@
itu.int
Representatives at Conference from Central Asia:
Ibraham Usmanov,
Vice Minister,
Ministry of Communications
Rudaki Avenue 57,
Tajikistan-734000 Dushanbe
Tel: +7 3772 212 384
Fax: +7 3772 212 953
E-mail: inbox@
mocdir.td.silk.org
Vladimir Shteynberg,
First Deputy Director General,
Posts and Telecommunication Agency of Uzbekistan,
1A Tolstoy Street,
Uzbekistan-7000000 Tashkent
Tel: +7 371 144 2524
Fax: +7 371 133 5227
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| How to Participate |
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Telecommunications companies, Humanitarian organisations and emergency mitigation and relief groups interested in maintaining support for this project or supplying information should contact one of the names listed above.
Interested parties from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan could contact the contact names given above from their respective representatives at the conference.
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| Project's Website |
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http://www.itu.int/newsarchive/projects/ICET/
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