Ericsson Response and Corporate Citizenship

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Challanges to providing standardised
systems at operational level
Kent Halling, Ericsson Response
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Worldwide Presence140 Countries
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GSM WCDMA Dominant Global Standard
Source EMC
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Infrastructure Provider
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The Corporate Challenge

• commit to social values
• reduce negative impacts of business
• do well by doing good

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Ericsson Response
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Core in Ericsson Response

• Ericsson Response Volunteers
• Ericsson Response Unit
• Ericsson Technical Reference group
• Partners - Relief organizations
• Partners - Private sector

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Partners
IFRC

• Private sector
• Operators
• Suppliers
• ...

UN family, Inter-Governmental Organizations
NGOs
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Ericsson Response Volunteers

• Commitment
• In parallel with their normal work
• Trained for emergency operations
• As individuals or in implementation teams
• National, regional or international missions
• IFRC and the UN in international operations

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Ericsson Response Units

• Together with relief organizations, define
  equipment to be used in a disaster
• Equipment and the installation teams
• Operation of equipment in disasters
• Test, maintain and storage of equipment
  regionally

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Communication in Refugee Camp, Tanzania
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Temporary GSM network World Food Program in
Kabul, Afghanistan
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Technical Reference Group

• A wide range of technology skills
• Propose telecom solutions and assistance
• Develop disaster communication together with
  Relief organizations

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WIDER - Background

• A shared communication infrastructure for
  disaster and emergency response organisations
• Provide the same access to tools at the disaster
  site as in the head office
• Currently, most organisations are installing
  their own communication infrastructure in
  disaster areas

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WIDER

• WLAN In Disaster and Emergency Response
• Vision
• create an easy to set up, reliable, secure,
  highly available and flexible system for
  essential communications services at a disaster
  site.

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When there is a need to communicate Ericsson is
there.