- Members of the Emergency Telecommunications Roster were trained on the deployment process and use of ITU’s telecommunication equipment to support emergency telecommunications deployments to countries hit by disasters.
- 20 satellite phones and 10 Broadband Global Area Network terminals were sent to Haiti to help with relief and recovery operations after the devastation caused by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on 14 August 2021. The Disaster Connectivity Map (DCM) was used to assist with response efforts and determine connectivity gaps in the impacted areas.
- National Emergency Telecommunication Plans were developed for Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Saint Lucia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Dominica, Grenada, Sudan, Somalia.
- ITU endorsed the “Call to Action on Emergency Alerting” to scale up efforts and ensure that “by 2025 all countries have the capability for effective, authoritative emergency alerting that leverages the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)”.
