ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning

1. GSC11(06)_Joint_49 ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning P.A.Probst/Chairman of ITU-T SG16

2. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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) GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

3. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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,…) GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

4. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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,…) GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

5. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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 GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

6. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

7. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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, …) GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

8. ITU-T Status Report on Disaster Relief and Early warning • 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! GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications