Several sets of emergency communication equipment were turned over to the regional office of the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) in Davao on June 2.
Ang these included three emergency communication equipment (VSAT, routers, modems) three generator sets and five. emergency kits.
The equipment was turned over by the Office of the Undersecretary for Resilient Government Communication and the DICT Central Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Division in a bid to strengthen the multi-agency Emergency Telecommunications Platform.
DICT Undersecretary Alan Silor said this equipment is part of the pre-deployment strategy of the DICT to prepare for calamities and other emergencies.
“Pre-deploying our disaster resiliency emergency communications equipment is necessary as part of our preparations as part of our readiness in disaster risk reduction as we all know when disaster strike particularly earthquake there is no advance notice so we cannot prepare,” Silor said.
This is a program being replicated all over the country said the visiting DICT official.
“Across the country we are giving several sets in each region so talagang pinaghahandaan naming ang emergency communications in terms of readiness and preparedness,” Silor said.
The equipment particularly the satellite based VSAT or Very Small Aperture Terminal can operate to provide communication platform in disaster-stricken areas where telecommunication facilities and services are either destroyed or downed. (PIA/RG Alama)
