| Télécoms
Sans Frontières connecting with Inmarsat
Posted: 30 April 2003
Two logisticians of Télécoms Sans Frontières
arrived this morning in the Iraqi capital Baghad.
TSF will open telecom centres in the Iraqi capital and, depending
on the evolution of the security conditions, deploy mobile telecom
teams all over the Iraqi territory.
Iraq is currently cut off from the rest of the world, and TSF is
aiming to restore communications for NGOs, hospitals and the population
using Inmarsat mobile satellite communication systems.
The TSF team in Baghdad will work in partnership with JNEPI (Joint
NGO Emergency Preparedness Initiative for Iraq), a group of 5 NGOs
(Save the Children, International Medical Corps, International Rescue
Committee, World Vision and Mercy Corps).
The telecom centre set up by JNEPI will be open to all organisations
working for the reconstruction of the country.
It will offer phone, fax, email, internet and Visio conference
facilities
Télécoms sans Frontières is member of the
United Nations Working Group des Nations Unies sur les on Emergency
Telecommunications (WGET), partner of the European Commission's
Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and member of the International Council
of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), and of the Red Cross.
TSF takes part in acts of United Nations by the World Health Organisation
(OMS) and the Office of the High Commission with the Refugees (UNHCR).
For more information see www.tsfi.org.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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