The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) provides vital communications services in humanitarian emergencies.

Joined November 2010
🌍 On #WorldFoodDay, we celebrate the people and ideas helping to build a future free from hunger. 🍚 This year's theme, "Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow" is a reminder that innovation depends on connection. 🛜 When responders can connect, they can deliver. 📡🌾
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🤖 AI is transforming how we work, but it is also creating new cyber risks. This #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, remember to pause ⏸️, verify 🔍 and report 🚩 suspicious requests or content. By securing our AI today, we enable our tomorrow. 🛡️
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📍Istanbul, Türkiye 🚨How do warnings turn to action when every second counts? LTC Telecoms joined @GSMA's Humanitarian Connectivity Charter, leading a session on early warning & alert systems and how governments and partners can ensure critical warnings swiftly reach communities
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📻 Strengthen your field communications skills with @UNICEF Digital Impact's new practical videos on satellite phones and handheld radios. ✅Available in four languages via the LTC Telecoms Learning Channel: tinyurl.com/unicefcomms. Need access? Email [email protected].
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3️⃣new core modules on emergency connectivity for ICT professionals are now on the LTC Telecoms Learning Channel ⚙️Learn to deploy, troubleshoot and maintain solutions ✔️Access: Functional Learning → IT/Networking: shorturl.at/hqEtX 📩Need access? [email protected]
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📍 Maiduguri, Nigeria 🚨To strengthen preparedness, LTS Telecoms trained 10 humanitarian and government responders on advanced radio comms. ⚙️Participants learned to operate emergency comms equipment, building the skills to keep vital networks running during emergencies.
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📍Nepal 🚨Following the flash floods, LTC Telecoms supported NDRRMA and partners in strengthening ICT coordination and keeping responders connected. 🛜Shared connectivity is now live in a WFP-managed staging area near Kathmandu airport and a humanitarian hub in Nuwakot.
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That's a wrap for gear.UP 2026👏 We just brought together logistics & ICT experts from 37 organizations for a complex, 8-day emergency simulation - putting into practice how they would coordinate in a real humanitarian response. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen!
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📍Khartoum, Sudan 👩🏾‍💻🧑🏿‍💻For youths affected by conflict, a safe and reliable space to learn can mean renewed hope and opportunities to rebuild. 🏫 At the Ald-Aim Community Centre, LTC Telecoms is helping make that possible with access to internet connectivity and solar power.
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📍Germany The 8th #gearUP exercise is underway, bringing together 37 organizations for 8 days of humanitarian #logistics and #ICT simulation training. Thanks to @THWLeitung for hosting, and partners & donors across @EUinEmergencies, @ericsson Response, @emergencylu, and @WFP.
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📍 Lebanon 📡 Reliable connectivity is critical for humanitarian operations. This week, we brought partners together to identify priority telecoms needs, address service gaps, and agree on coordinated next steps. ➡️ Strengthening connectivity for effective humanitarian action.
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📍Monguno, North-East Nigeria In a place where reliable local connectivity is unavailable, LTS Telecoms helps humanitarian responders stay connected, coordinated and operational. 📡 Connectivity that enables humanitarian action.
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🌍 This #WorldHumanitarianDay, we stand with humanitarian responders around the world. Reliable connectivity helps responders stay safe, stay connected, and reach people in need. 🕊️ Protection and access keep lifelines open. #WHD2026 #ActForHumanity
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🌍📡 ETC from the field During the Ebola response in eastern DRC, Catherine "Cat" Mones helped address telecommunications gaps affecting hospitals, humanitarian organizations and field teams. 👇 Read her story here: bit.ly/CatMones
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📍Nacala, Mozambique 🌀Southern Africa gears up for regional responder readiness! 📝LTC contributed IT evaluation expertise to strengthen telecoms preparedness atthe Regional Cyclone & Flood Response SIMEX convened by @SADC_News 🚨In emergencies, preparedness is the best response
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📢Applications are now open for the LTC Telecoms Operations Course 2026! 🌍Build humanitarian ICT emergency response skils 🖥️Virtual: 26 Oct–13 Nov 2026 📍Luxembourg: 17–19 Nov 2026 🗓️Apply by 21 Aug 🔗Info: tinyurl.com/LTCoperationscou… 📝Apply: tinyurl.com/LTCapplynow
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📍 Diffa, Niger 🧑🏿‍💻👩🏿‍💻In an urban commune in southeast Niger, a quiet digital revolution is unfolding. 🏫⚙️The ETC Shimoduram Centre is empowering communities with access to digital learning, proving that whether young or old, learning and growth has no age limit.
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📢 Join the LTC Telecoms team in Suva, Fiji and help strengthen humanitarian connectivity across the Pacific. 🌏 ETC Coordinator – Apply by 8 Aug 🔗 shorturl.at/UDRhP 🌏 ETC Training & Development Coordinator – Apply by 10 Aug 🔗 shorturl.at/Xnqzx
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📍Khartoum, Sudan 🏫 July 22: The Ald-aim Community Centre opened its doors: a new community space built around recovery, connection and local action 🛜ETC will provide connectivity, solar power, & charging stations to support community learning and access to essential services
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📍 Maiduguri, Nigeria ⏰ As responders work to contain cholera in Northeast Nigeria, LTS deployed a CrisisNet kit to provide secure internet access for coordination at a Gwange clinic in Maiduguri and across Borno State. Reliable connectivity helps deliver life-saving support.
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