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The Working Group on  Emergency Telecommunications (WGET)

International Conference on Emergency Telecommunications (ICEC-2006), Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland, 19-20 June 2006

The WGET, convened by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), is an open forum to facilitate the use of telecommunications in the service of humanitarian assistance. It comprises of United Nations entities, major NGO's, the ICRC, the ITU and experts from the private sector and academia. The WGET usually holds two plenary meetings a year.

- WGET Terms of Reference

- WGET Meetings - Minutes and Documents

-  Frequency Coordination

-  Saving Lives Together: "A Framework for improving Security Arrangements among IGOs, NGOs   and the UN in the Field".

- Emergency Telecommunications Mailing List

The WGET secretariat maintains an e-mail list for the distribution of information between meetings. To subscribe to this list, please send an e-mail to:

mailserv@itu.int  with the subjsct field left blank, with text in the body of the message reading: subscribe emergency telecommunications

This will subscribe the user to the list with the e-mail address from which the message was sent.

An archive of the Emergency Telecommunications mailing list will be available on this site in the near future.

- Participants in WGET Meetings since 1994

United Nations system:

- UN (DAM), United Nations Department of Administration and Management, New York

- UN (OCHA), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

- UN (DPKO), United Nations Department of Peace Keeping Operations, New York

- FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome

- IAPSO, Inter Agency Procurement Services Office, Copenhagen

- ISDR, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (formerly IDNDR)

- ITU, International Telecommunications Union, Geneva

- UNDP, United Nations Development Programme, New York

- UNHCR, Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva

- UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund, New York

- UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Vienna

- UNOG, United Nations Office at Geneva

- UNOV, United Nations Office at Vienna

- UNV, United Nations Volunteers Programme

- WFP, World Food Programme, Rome

- WHO, World Health Organization, Geneva

- WMO, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva

Other International Organizations:

- IARU, International Amateur Radio Union, International Secretariat, Hartford CT

- ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva

- IFRC, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva

- IOM, International Organization for Migration

- PTC, Pacific Telecommunications Council

- PAHO, Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC

- WV, World Vision, Washington DC

- MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Brussels

- DRCF, Disaster Relief Communications Foundation, UK

- CPSC, Center for Public Service Communications

- Télécom Sans Frontières

- Net Hope

National Organizations and Institutions:

- ARRL, American Radio Relay Leage, Hartford CT

- DARC, German Amateur Radio Assiciation

- Industry Canada

- DoS, US Department of State, Washington DC

- NOAA, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, USA

- USAID / OFDA, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Washington DC

- SDR, Swiss Disaster Relief Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne

- SRSA, Swedish Rescue Services Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm

Other Participants:

Experts and consultants from the private sector and from academic and scientific Organizations, as well as Field offices in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

- Ericsson Response

Home Page: http://www.reliefweb.int/
Email: wget-secretariat@un.org