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The Tampere Convention
on the Provision of Telecommunication
Resources
for Disaster Mitigation and Relief
Operations
The Tampere Convention was unanimously adopted by the delegations of the 60 States participating in the Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency
Telecommunications (ICET-98), hosted by the Government of Finland in Tampere, Finland, 16-18 June 1998.
Last Conference: International
Conference on Emergency Telecommunications (ICEC-2006),
Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland, 19-20 June 2006
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Executive Summary
Tampere Convention comes into force on 8 January 2005 (UN
Press Release)
List of
Signatories and Ratifications (Chapter XXV-4)
Guidelines for signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession of the Tampere Convention
Guidelines for Application of the Tampere Convention
Country-specific applications of the
Convention:
Case Study: Switzerland
Information paper, available only in German
In Disaster and Emergency
Situations in Sri Lanka
Sample of
Telecommunications Inventory:
Canada
Telecommunications in the Service of Humanitarian
Assistance (ITU Plenipotentiary
Conference (PP-98) Resolution 36)
Remark
of Under-Secretary-General Kenzo Oshima
Statement
regarding the Tampere Convention by the Humanitarian Aid
Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation,
SDC
Plan
of Action
Conference
Web Sites:
CDC-2001 - The Second Tampere Conference on Disaster
Communications, 28 - 30 May 2001
ICET'98
Article: Tampere gives birth to a new Convention
- ITU News
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