We would like to invite you for the next ICT/ETC Working Group Meeting to take place on Wednesday 14 June 2017, starting at 2pm. The meeting will be hosted at WFP Somalia Office located on Gigiri Lane, off United Nations Crescent, Nairobi. This meeting is open to people involved with: emergency telecommunications; services for communities (technical/digital solutions in support of CwC work); digital payments; digital development; and other areas concerned with ICT in support of ongoing drought response.

To accommodate colleagues working in Somalia or those who cannot physically come to the meeting venue, a web conferencing facility (BlueJeans - thanks to UNFPA) has also been setup. BlueJeans connection details are as follows:

To join via VCT system / Room System: 
IP Address:          199.48.152.152
Meeting ID:         252612225220

To join Blue jeans via Mobile:
Meeting ID:            252612225220
Name:                      Your Name   

To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/252612225220

The agenda for the meeting:

• Follow up on action points from previous meeting
• Updates on the drought crisis in Somalia
• Updates from agencies/organisations on their ICT response efforts
• ICT gaps and needs
• Somalia ICT ecosystem assessment to build ICT Country Profile
• Any other business

In case you have additional agenda items you would like discussed, kindly do let us know.

Kindly RSVP to Roseleen Mwangi (Roseleen.mwangi@wfp.org) before close of business on Monday 12 June if you are planning to physically attend the meeting at the WFP Office. In case you need more information, kindly contact Eric Kiruhura (Eric.Kiruhura@wfp.org, Mobile: +254 740 048469). Thank you.