ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning

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ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early
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SOURCE ITU-T
TITLE ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early Warning
AGENDA ITEM Joint GTSC/GRSC, agenda item 4.2
CONTACT Pierre-André Probst (probst-pa_at_bluewin.ch)
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• P.A.Probst/Chairman of ITU-T SG16

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• Scope of ITU-T activities
• Development of Recommendations for interoperable
  systems and telecommunications facilities in
  Early Warning and Disaster Relief
  situations(Study Groups)
• Coordination and collaboration among the key
  players involved in those situations(PCP-TDR)

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• Main Study Groups involved 1/2
• SG 2 (International Emergency Preferential Scheme
  / IEPS, special numbering for TDR scenarios, )
• SG 4 (Network management framework for ETS,)
• SG 9 (Preferential telecommunications over
  IPCablecom networks,)
• SG 11 (BICC and ISUP Support for IEPS,)

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• Main Study Groups involved 2/2
• SG 13 (Framework on network requirements and
  capabilities to support emergency
  telecommunications, incl. NGN,)
• SG15 (Automatically Switched Optical Network,)
• SG16 (Priority mechanisms and message broadcast
  over multimedia systems,)
• SG17 (Security aspects,)
• SG19 (Emergency services in IMT-2000,)

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• Coordination 1/2
• TSAG
• ITU-T Action Plan for Standardization on TDR/EW
• SG2
• ITU-T Lead Study Group for Telecommunication for
  TDR/EW
• Partnership Coordination Panel on TDR
• Monitor the progress of technical standardization
  work in general and in particular a mapping to
  the requirements of the different categories of
  users
• Address coordination issues between the partners
• Involve institutional users in the
  standardization process

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• Coordination 2/2
• Partnership Coordination Panel on TDR
• Develop and maintain contact with entities not
  traditionally involved in standards development
• PCP-TDR present Members- ITU-T SG2, SG4, SG16
  and other SGs on request,- ITU-R SG8 and others
  on request,- ITU-D SG2,- SDOs ISO/IEC, APT,
  ATIS T1, ETSI, IETF, OASIS, TIA and
  others,- Intergovernmental Organizations
  UN-OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, WHO
  and others,- NGOs IFRC, ICRC, TSF, IARU and
  others,- Industry Forum and Consortium MESA,
  TETRA and others.

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• New developments and trends
• Increased importance of systems to support early
  warning needs
• collection and transmission of relevant
  information (Citizen to Authority Authority to
  Authority)
• Information broadcast (Authority to Citizen)
• Evolution of telecommunication systems (mobile,
  internet,)
• Importance of considering accessibility issues (
  e.g. users with disabilities, language barriers,
  )

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• Proposed actions
• Encourage different PSOs to develop EW/TDR
  standards for the systems under their
  responsibility
• In ITU-T encourage and stimulate contributions
  to the different ITU-T SGs
• Improve cooperation and coordination among the
  PSOs, in particular through participation to the
  PCP-TDR
• Contribute to the 2nd Workshop on EW/TDR(19-20
  October 2006())
• () Date to be confirmed!