Telecommunications for Disaster Relief ( TDR ) is a proposal by the International Telecommunications Union to establish worldwide standards of interoperability and availability of emergency communications . The notion of establishing such standards was spurred in part by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami which devastated Indonesia . The ITU assigned country code +888 for TDR , administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs . Numbers are assigned for the duration of a particular relief activity only , and may be reused for a future event
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Telecommunications for Disaster Relief