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Rebirth of Haiti’s National Phone Company
In 2009, Haiti’s national telecom company – Teleco – was rapidly losing market share and nearly $1.5 million a month in public funds. IFC helped the Government of Haiti and Viettel form a partnership that has turned around the fortunes of the company. Today, the new company – Natcom Haiti – has gone from 75,000 customers to 1.8 million and is turning a profit for both Viettel and the government. Stay Connected http://www.facebook.com/IFCwbg http://www.twitter.com/wbg_ppp http://www.twitter.com/IFC_org http://www.ifc.org/LinkedIn http://www.youtube.com/IFCvideocasts http://www.ifc.org/SocialMediaIndex
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Haitian Singer Uses Mobile Technology to Launch Career
In 2009, Haiti’s national telecom company – Teleco – was rapidly losing market share and nearly $1.5 million a month in public funds. IFC helped the Government of Haiti and Viettel form a partnership that has turned around the fortunes of the company. Today, the new company – Natcom Haiti – is turning a profit for both Viettel and the government and has gone from 75,000 customers to 1.8 million. Mikaelle Cartright is one of those customers. Stay Connected http://www.facebook.com/IFCwbg http://www.twitter.com/wbg_ppp http://www.twitter.com/IFC_org http://www.ifc.org/LinkedIn http://www.youtube.com/IFCvideocasts http://www.ifc.org/SocialMediaIndex
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Voluntary mission in Haiti 2010
This was my first draft I proposed to my former company (IT/Telecom field) to document their involvement with the humanitarian reliefs effort in partnership with United Nations. This is for the Haiti mission. I volunteered as a IT technician, but I got involved with WFP for the food distribution and the documenting of it. After my submission, I worked with my company for the public version of this film. Together we considerably re-shaped the format. We changed the look and feel of the film, shift the focus on different subjects and change the music. I decided now to publish my first initial work. Therefore I want to be clear of the following: NOTHING IN THIS VIDEO IS ENDORSED BY ANY COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION APPEARING HERE. In order to avoid any risk of misunderstanding of this poi...
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Ambassador Verveer Hosts Telecommunication Industry Roundtable
Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Ambassador Philip Verveer, hosts a telecommunication industry roundtable on Haiti relief and reconstruction efforts, at the Department of State in Washington, DC July 9, 2010. [Go to http://www.state.gov/video for text transcript and more video.]
published: 09 Jul 2010 -
Dr. David A. Bray, Video for 2017 Haiti Tech Summit
Dr. David A. Bray, Video for 2017 Haiti Tech Summit leadership, change agents, non-partisan, exponential, empathy, eisenhower fellow, harvard university, transformation
published: 04 Jun 2017 -
Telecommunications in Nicaragua go long distance
Several initiatives have been implemented to connect isolated communities.
published: 16 Sep 2014 -
Cholera crisis deepens in Haiti
In Haiti, the deathtoll from the cholera epidemic has now reached 917. And more than 14 thousand others are infected. On Sunday the country's political leaders went on national television to speak to people about the outbreak.. targeting in particular, earthquake survivors still living in squalid camps . Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from the capital , Port Au Prince.
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Let's Comm Digital - humanitarian telecoms training
http://www.etcluster.org/training/lets-comm-digital Let's Comm Digital is a five-day training course targeted at humanitarian personnel who need skills in deploying Digital Mobile Radio infrastructure in emergency operations. The course is facilitated by the World Food Programme (WFP) as lead of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).
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SAVING LIVES - ITU Emergency Telecommunications
Disasters disrupt national economies, severely weaken the poor and vulnerable and are recognized as major impediments to sustainable development and reduction of poverty especially in poor countries. The impact is even worse for those living in remote and isolated areas with no access to basic information and communication facilities that are essential to providing vital alerting information. In order to mitigate the impact of disasters, timely dissemination of authoritative information before, during, and after disasters is critical. ITU's activities in the field of radiocommunications make invaluable contribution to disaster management as they facilitate the prediction, detection, and alerting through the coordinated and effective use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the establishmen...
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Observers play down fraud in Haiti's election - sent to DC
(30 Nov 2010) HEADLINE: Observers play down fraud in Haiti's election CAPTION: As vote counting continued in Haiti, observers were playing down allegations of fraud in Sunday's presidential election. Leading candidates were backing away from calls to cancel the balloting. (30 November 2010) VOICE-OVER: English AP TELEVISION Port-au-Prince - 29 November 2010 1. Wide of warehouse used as tabulation centre where election data is computed 2. Mid of people working on gathering and counting ballots 3. Woman taking final counting vote lists 4. Wide of Colin Granderson, chief OAS (Organisation of American States)/Caribbean Community observer, at news conference 5. Cutaway of reporters 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Granderson, chief OAS (Organisation of American States)/Caribbean Communi...
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Who's Profiting from the Haitian Devastation?
On January 12, 2010, a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused catastrophic damage to the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing thousands in and around the densely populated capital city of Port-au-Prince. Whilst Haiti's communication services were severely disrupted, millions around the world began pouring donations via SMS short-codes. But did the operators and messaging firms profit from the country's grief? Leila Makki reports.
published: 08 Feb 2010 -
haiti
published: 04 Sep 2015 -
Social responsibility in business today
Take the case of Tropical Telecom, with a subsidiary based in Haiti, when a major earthquake hit the country on January 21, Tropical Telecom instantly became an integral part of relief efforts. Chris Taylor (MBA '00D), its President and CEO, tells us more.
published: 14 Jun 2010
Rebirth of Haiti’s National Phone Company
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- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 09 Dec 2014
- views: 306
In 2009, Haiti’s national telecom company – Teleco – was rapidly losing market share and nearly $1.5 million a month in public funds.
IFC helped the Government of Haiti and Viettel form a partnership that has turned around the fortunes of the company. Today, the new company – Natcom Haiti – has gone from 75,000 customers to 1.8 million and is turning a profit for both Viettel and the government.
Stay Connected
http://www.facebook.com/IFCwbg
http://www.twitter.com/wbg_ppp
http://www.twitter.com/IFC_org
http://www.ifc.org/LinkedIn
http://www.youtube.com/IFCvideocasts
http://www.ifc.org/SocialMediaIndex
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Sustainable Haiti
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- Duration: 4:49
- Updated: 22 Mar 2010
- views: 915
Mike Singh, CEO of Telkom Caribe discusses how we can revive Haiti's telecom industry during the Sustainable Haiti conference in Miami Beach, March 18, 2010
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Haitian Singer Uses Mobile Technology to Launch Career
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 09 Dec 2014
- views: 942
In 2009, Haiti’s national telecom company – Teleco – was rapidly losing market share and nearly $1.5 million a month in public funds. IFC helped the Government of Haiti and Viettel form a partnership that has turned around the fortunes of the company.
Today, the new company – Natcom Haiti – is turning a profit for both Viettel and the government and has gone from 75,000 customers to 1.8 million. Mikaelle Cartright is one of those customers.
Stay Connected
http://www.facebook.com/IFCwbg
http://www.twitter.com/wbg_ppp
http://www.twitter.com/IFC_org
http://www.ifc.org/LinkedIn
http://www.youtube.com/IFCvideocasts
http://www.ifc.org/SocialMediaIndex
https://wn.com/Haitian_Singer_Uses_Mobile_Technology_To_Launch_Career
Voluntary mission in Haiti 2010
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 31 May 2011
- views: 236
This was my first draft I proposed to my former company (IT/Telecom field) to document their involvement with the humanitarian reliefs effort in partnership with United Nations. This is for the Haiti mission.
I volunteered as a IT technician, but I got involved with WFP for the food distribution and the documenting of it.
After my submission, I worked with my company for the public version of this film. Together we considerably re-shaped the format. We changed the look and feel of the film, shift the focus on different subjects and change the music.
I decided now to publish my first initial work. Therefore I want to be clear of the following:
NOTHING IN THIS VIDEO IS ENDORSED BY ANY COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION APPEARING HERE. In order to avoid any risk of misunderstanding of this point, I made an effort to blur as much as possible any occurrence of my former company name and logo appearing in this film.
THIS FILM INTENDS TO CAPTURE MY PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE OF MY INVOLVEMENT AND OF THE CONTRIBUTION MADE THROUGH A GENERIC IT / TELECOM COMPANY AND HOW IT LINKS TO THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE.
All material has been shot and edited by myself.
https://wn.com/Voluntary_Mission_In_Haiti_2010
Ambassador Verveer Hosts Telecommunication Industry Roundtable
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- Duration: 5:58
- Updated: 09 Jul 2010
- views: 85
Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Ambassador Philip Verveer, hosts a telecommunication industry roundtable on Haiti relief and reconstruction efforts, at the Department of State in Washington, DC July 9, 2010. [Go to http://www.state.gov/video for text transcript and more video.]
https://wn.com/Ambassador_Verveer_Hosts_Telecommunication_Industry_Roundtable
Dr. David A. Bray, Video for 2017 Haiti Tech Summit
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- Duration: 8:00
- Updated: 04 Jun 2017
- views: 214
Dr. David A. Bray, Video for 2017 Haiti Tech Summit
leadership, change agents, non-partisan, exponential, empathy, eisenhower fellow, harvard university, transformation
https://wn.com/Dr._David_A._Bray,_Video_For_2017_Haiti_Tech_Summit
Telecommunications in Nicaragua go long distance
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 16 Sep 2014
- views: 218
Several initiatives have been implemented to connect isolated communities.
https://wn.com/Telecommunications_In_Nicaragua_Go_Long_Distance
Cholera crisis deepens in Haiti
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 15 Nov 2010
- views: 7313
In Haiti, the deathtoll from the cholera epidemic has now reached 917.
And more than 14 thousand others are infected.
On Sunday the country's political leaders went on national television to speak to people about the outbreak.. targeting in particular, earthquake survivors still living in squalid camps .
Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from the capital , Port Au Prince.
https://wn.com/Cholera_Crisis_Deepens_In_Haiti
Let's Comm Digital - humanitarian telecoms training
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- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 22 Oct 2013
- views: 633
http://www.etcluster.org/training/lets-comm-digital
Let's Comm Digital is a five-day training course targeted at humanitarian personnel who need skills in deploying Digital Mobile Radio infrastructure in emergency operations. The course is facilitated by the World Food Programme (WFP) as lead of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC).
https://wn.com/Let's_Comm_Digital_Humanitarian_Telecoms_Training
SAVING LIVES - ITU Emergency Telecommunications
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- Duration: 10:35
- Updated: 16 Oct 2012
- views: 1826
Disasters disrupt national economies, severely weaken the poor and vulnerable and are recognized as major impediments to sustainable development and reduction of poverty especially in poor countries. The impact is even worse for those living in remote and isolated areas with no access to basic information and communication facilities that are essential to providing vital alerting information.
In order to mitigate the impact of disasters, timely dissemination of authoritative information before, during, and after disasters is critical. ITU's activities in the field of radiocommunications make invaluable contribution to disaster management as they facilitate the prediction, detection, and alerting through the coordinated and effective use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the establishment of radio standards and guidelines concerning the usage of radiocommunication systems.
ITU's telecommunication technical standards also play a strategic role in ensuring global interconnection and interoperability of telecommunications networks for monitoring and management at the onset and during emergency and disaster situations. A number of Recommendations have been developed for call priority schemes that ensure that relief workers can get communication lines when they need to, whether using traditional or next generation communications networks. Complementary to the need to provide call priority during emergencies is the ability to deliver warnings to users, and standards are fundamental to ensure that warnings are timely delivered uncorrupted from the source to the end users -- no matter how they can be reached.
The development arm of the ITU considers emergency telecommunications an integral part of its development agenda. For this reason, a lot of effort is directed at mainstreaming disaster management in telecommunications/information and communication technology projects and activities as part of disaster preparedness. This includes infrastructure development, and the establishment of enabling policy, legal and regulatory frameworks. In the immediate aftermath of disasters, ITU deploys temporary telecommunications/ICT solutions to assist countries affected by disasters. This includes the provision of basic telecommunications and telemedicine applications via satellites. Reconstruction and rehabilitation of telecommunications/ICT networks is an important part of disaster management. After providing assistance for disaster relief and response, ITU undertakes assessment missions to affected countries aimed at determining the magnitude of damages to the network through the use of geographical information systems. On the basis of its findings, ITU and the host country embark on the resuscitation of the infrastructure while ensuring that disaster resilient features are integrated to reduce network vulnerability in the event of disasters striking in the future.
The Tampere Convention
When disaster strikes communications links are often disrupted. But for disaster relief workers these links are essential to answer critical questions such as how many people have been injured or died, where they are located and the medical help needed.
Even though telecommunications can save lives in disaster situations, regulatory barriers can make it difficult to use the necessary equipment. However, ITU was a driving force in drafting and promoting the Tampere Convention. It allows relief workers to make full use of life-saving communication tools. The Tampere Convention calls on States to waive regulatory barriers that impede the use of telecommunications. These barriers include licensing requirements to use frequencies, restrictions on importing equipment and limits on the movement of humanitarian teams.
Additional footage and stills courtesy of: IFRC, ICRC, Thuraya, Irridium, Inmarsat.
© ITU 2012
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TELECOM COMPANIES WARNED
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 15 Oct 2016
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Observers play down fraud in Haiti's election - sent to DC
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- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 30 Jul 2015
- views: 671
(30 Nov 2010) HEADLINE: Observers play down fraud in Haiti's election
CAPTION: As vote counting continued in Haiti, observers were playing down allegations of fraud in Sunday's presidential election. Leading candidates were backing away from calls to cancel the balloting. (30 November 2010)
VOICE-OVER: English
AP TELEVISION
Port-au-Prince - 29 November 2010
1. Wide of warehouse used as tabulation centre where election data is computed
2. Mid of people working on gathering and counting ballots
3. Woman taking final counting vote lists
4. Wide of Colin Granderson, chief OAS (Organisation of American States)/Caribbean Community observer, at news conference
5. Cutaway of reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Granderson, chief OAS (Organisation of American States)/Caribbean Community observer: "The mission has considered whether the irregularities it observed were of the magnitude and consistency that would invalidate the legitimacy of the process. Based on these observations in the 11 electoral departments, the joint mission does not believe that these irregularities, serious as some of them were, necessarily invalidated the process."
7. Close of Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly supporters marching in street
8. Various of Martelly supporters marching past presidential palace, destroyed by January earthquake
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, Presidential Candidate:
"I ask, I ask with everyone that the election be cancelled because of the massive fraud, I did with everyone (meaning with the other candidates), you saw me."
10. Wide of police officers in street
11. Wide of displaced camp, ballots thrown on the floor
12. Various of ballots thrown in stream
Grande Riu de Nord - 29 November 2010
13. Wide of residents inside voting centre damaged by citizens on Sunday
14. Mid of people dumping ballots in street
15. Ballots on fire
AP TELEVISION
Port-au-Prince - 29 November 2010
16. Zoom in to tyres on fire
17. Wide of Haitian-American singer Wyclef Jean holding news conference
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Wyclef Jean, Haitian-American singer:
"If a decision is not made and we procrastinate, the country will rise to a level of violence that we have never seen before."
19. Various of tabulation centre, workers computing data
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They've started counting ballots in Haiti's disputed presidential election, although officials were warning it would be several days until any results become available.
International observers were playing down allegations of widespread fraud. Colin Granderson heads a group from the Organization of American States.
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Supporters of popular singer Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly were demonstrating in the streets Monday.
Martelly and other candidates alleged voting was rigged to help the incumbent president's preferred successor Jude Celestin.
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but the candidate's spokeswoman said he later backtracked on the charges. Martelly is believed to have done well and could end up in a runoff if no candidate passes the 50 percent threshold.
Still, anger has been boiling since Sunday's voting, which saw some polling stations wrecked, and ballots dumped on the ground. Others were burned.
The street scenes have worried hip hop star Wyclef Jean, who urged a quick resolution...
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The counting process isn't likely to be hurried, though. Final results are due by December 7th.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/dce831a1e2dafe30692082e67744b34d
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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Who's Profiting from the Haitian Devastation?
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- Duration: 6:06
- Updated: 08 Feb 2010
- views: 203
On January 12, 2010, a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused catastrophic damage to the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing thousands in and around the densely populated capital city of Port-au-Prince. Whilst Haiti's communication services were severely disrupted, millions around the world began pouring donations via SMS short-codes. But did the operators and messaging firms profit from the country's grief? Leila Makki reports.
https://wn.com/Who's_Profiting_From_The_Haitian_Devastation
Social responsibility in business today
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- Duration: 9:39
- Updated: 14 Jun 2010
- views: 8313
Take the case of Tropical Telecom, with a subsidiary based in Haiti, when a major earthquake hit the country on January 21, Tropical Telecom instantly became an integral part of relief efforts. Chris Taylor (MBA '00D), its President and CEO, tells us more.
https://wn.com/Social_Responsibility_In_Business_Today
