Revisions to the Terms of Reference for the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET) adopted at the 14th Plenary Meeting in Geneva (20-21 February 2003)
1. The Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET) is a forum to increase the effectiveness of its participants related to regulatory, operational and technical aspects of telecommunications for disaster relief.
2. Its objectives include:
facilitating the promotion and implementation of The Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations;
encouraging measures applying the ITU resolutions and recommendations relative to telecommunications for disaster relief;
exchanging and disseminating information concerning emergency telecommunications;
promoting cooperation and interoperability of telecommunications with and in the field.
3. Institutional participants in the WGET include international, governmental and non-governmental humanitarian organizations with an interest in emergency telecommunications. Individuals with an interest in emergency telecommunications may be invited to participate in the work of the WGET.
4. The WGET has no budget of its own.
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