Politics Podcast: Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality theconversation.com/politics-podca… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The GSMA Humanitarian Connectivity Workshop for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region discussed information-communication gaps between humanitarians and mobile network operators. More on GSMA Mobile for Development bit.ly/2EttGlW

#Preparedness operations allow faster and higher quality assistance in the aftermath of disaster. Reducing human and economic costs: this is why we prepare.

Putting preparedness plans to the test - Table top exercise co-organized by ETCluster and Int’l Telecommunication Union at GET 2019 - the global emergency telecommunication symposium with regulators, providers, responders. #ITUGET

“When the national and international community come together to embrace technology and innovation collectively to serve people, inclusive progress can be made in meeting development priorities through reducing and mitigating disaster risk.” - Enrica Porcari #ITUGET Int’l Telecommunication Union

Happy we buck trends with our chair Farah Farouque ‘6 pc of board chairpersons and deputies across all the nation's creative institutions are representative of first, second and third-generation migrants...’ #shiftingthebalance ⁦Diversity Arts⁩ smh.com.au/entertainment/…

My good friend Phyza always shares an interesting perspective.

Great to have the might of the ITU behind the Crisis Connectivity Charter!

Congratulations on the launch of your new venue!

TSS, a great organisation doing some fabulous work to support our health professionals who are working so hard to keep the community healthy. I'm proud to say my sister is chair of The Social Studio board too.

Working in a low socioeconomic community as a frontline GP is hard, and it’s getting harder. Our model of primary care does not serve those on low incomes well, or the GPs who undertake this work. Here's something about my work in #Broadmeadows. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Find more details on the partnership here: bit.ly/2sTkO1Z World Food Programme Colin Tukuitonga Audrey_Aumua Cameron Diver @javhel57 x.com/spc_live/statu…

#Digitization of information on national infrastructure needs to be a key focus for funding ~UNOPS ow.ly/FP4i30dyWUR #ICT4SDG #HLPF

Conflict and instability vastly increase cost of feeding hungry world - new World Food Programme report: bit.ly/2uGJbB0

Who's helping #womenintech up the career ladder? Nominate #GenderEquality success stories for #EQUALSinTech award! equals.org/awards

Enlightening Boyer Lecture by Genevieve Bell "Fast, smart and connected: How to build our digital future" - listen now: tinyurl.com/yd5vj34s

The ETC convened for its November 2017 Plenary Meeting, generously hosted by UNDFS in Valencia, Spain. Through their consistent engagement, our partners keep the global #ETCluster network strong and moving forward!

That’s my mum waving to Batman! 🦇 x.com/kfarouque/stat…

The ETCluster plenary starts today in Luxembourg. Happy to be here and ready to get to work!

Today, World Food Programme wt support from DFID Nepal & in collaboration wt the Govt of #Nepal and ETCluster is organising a two day training on how to better use internet technology & communications in aftermath of #disaster #disasterrecovery