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Ericsson Wins PM Community Advancement Award
Project management-based efforts helped relief organizations work on the same local telecommunications infrastructure, improving communications and cooperation.
Project Management Institute has awarded mobile systems supplier Ericsson with the PMI Community Advancement Through Project Management Award, Organizational Category. Ericsson received the honor for its pro bono response program for international assistance in disasters. The program works in close cooperation with organizations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the United Nation's humanitarian organizations. Ericsson improves the relief work by bringing skilled staff and additional technology to be used in relief operations. The program supports humanitarian operations with no commercial objective or responsibility.
On a request from the United Nations, Ericsson supported a relief operation in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, over a nine-month period, deploying its WIDER system (WLAN in Disaster and Emergency Response) and on-site volunteers. Relief organizations — for the first time ever — worked on the same local telecommunications infrastructure. This improved communications, increased cooperation and the efficiency of relief work.
The PMI Community Advancement Through Project Management Award was presented earlier this month at the PMI Global Congress-North America in …
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