8th APT Workshop on Disaster Management/ Communications
20 June 2017 - 22 June 2017
Kathmandu, Nepal
The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) organized the 8th APT Workshop on Disaster Management/Communications (WDMC-8) from 20 to 22 June 2017 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), the Government of Nepal, and Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), and supported by the Extra Budgetary Contributions from Japan.
The overall objective of the workshop was to contribute and facilitate an information exchange on ICT usage for disaster management with special focus on response and recovery phases after major natural disasters, and more specifically to introduce issues related to the network resilience against disaster, to provide an update on new and emerging trends in disaster management technology and services, and to promote an international collaboration in disaster management, etc.
