Cybersecurity and Emergency Telecommunications.

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The ITU is committed to promoting cybersecurity and ensuring the security of telecommunication/ICT networks and services. Its Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) provides a framework for measuring a country's commitment and helps improve cybersecurity. ITU's National CIRT Programme helps enhance countries' cybersecurity capabilities, and its Cyberdrill exercises provide hands-on training for cyber incident response teams. ITU is also helping countries develop their National Cybersecurity Strategies andaction plans and promoting cybersecurity inclusion through initiatives such as Child Online Protection (COP) and Women in Cyber. ITU provides capacity building support for developing countries and has established programs for women in cybersecurity. As an international standards-making body for ICTs, interoperability, accessibility and security are our requirements from the design stage. Over 200 standards focusing on security and a series of ICT standards (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Information Technology for Networks, many more.) have been published by ITU. As the world witnessed an increased number of natural hazards and climate-related disasters, ITU works with countries to better leverage ICTs in disaster risk reduction and management, such as developing National Emergency Telecommunications plans, and promotes the adoption of the Tampere Convention to promote coordination across different stakeholders in the whole lifecycle of disasters. Moreover, as part of the UN Early Warnings for All Initiative, ITU is leading the effort on warning dissemination and communication pillar, and highlight the use of mobile networks (e.g., cell-broadcast and/or location-based SMS in combination with Common Alerting Protocol to) in early warnings. In disaster response, ITU Disaster Connectivity Maps support government and first responders in identifying connectivity outages to facilitate faster and targeted connectivity restoration. Upon request from the country, ITU deploys equipment to support coordination ofrelief operations, with the support of the ITU Emergency Telecommunication Roster. ITU works closely with Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) and other partners in disaster response.