Using ICT for Effective Disaster Management in the Pacific

7th to 9th July 2009
Samoa

More than sixty key stakeholders from across the Asia Pacific region gathered in Apia, Samoa for the CTO’s 6^th Regional Using ICT for Effective Disaster Management Forum.  The Pacific forum, the 2^nd to be held in the region, was organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation (CTO) in partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UN-APCICT. 

The partners’ effective coordination enabled National Disaster Management Officers, Officials of ICT Ministries, regulators and ICT operators to gather for two and a half days of deliberations on how to increase and improve the use of ICTs for effective disaster management. In keeping with the partners’ wish to support existing global and regional Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) efforts, the Forum’s sessions focused on how ICTs can help meet objectives of initiatives such as the Pacific Disaster Management Framework for Action 2005 – 2015 and the Pacific Digital Strategy.