NEW YORK, 25 January (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — On 24 January 2021, to celebrate the International Day of Education and to contribute to free and accessible education towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations and the International Cartographic Association released a joint publication entitled "
Who We Are
The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) enables a better, safer, more sustainable future through innovative technology. It is committed to ensuring colleagues all over the world have every tool necessary to succeed in their respective mandates.
Our goal is to make the world a better place.
We work together to innovate and build solutions across boundaries and organizations. We focus on what brings significant value to the mission of the United Nations.
We believe that when United Nations personnel are supported by modern tools and processes that empower them across boundaries, the whole world benefits.
Data Blog
13 April 2021 — Stefan Lemm, former Head, Military Operations Unit, OICT, explores the challenge of assessing the potential risks and harms associated with data collection and how to actively implement protection measures so that data can still be collected for the right cause while mitigating the risks.
Mr. Lem describes an approach taken by OICT and UN Global Pulse in a project for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
Reboot Accelerator
The Reboot Accelerator programme is a call for innovative solutions, initiated by OICT, that aims to utilize the crowdsourcing platform to solve global challenges. The Reboot hackathons provide an opportunity for innovators from around the world to support the work and mandates of the UN.
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News
09 November 2020
NEW YORK, 11 June (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations is relying heavily on information and communications technology (ICT) to respond to the COVID-19 crisis while continuing its important work. The Security Council meets by video teleconference, and the Secretary-General holds media interviews with journalists sitting in different rooms, sometimes in different cities. United Nations staff all over the world rely on video platforms for virtual meetings and townhalls in this time of social (physical) distancing.
22 June 2020
NEW YORK, 05 June (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced the winners of Unite Ideas Reboot the Ocean challenge.
The challenge was launched as a collaboration between the UN Global Compact and the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT).
21 May 2020
NEW YORK, 21 May (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — As Italy confronts the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have had to explore new ways of teaching through distance-learning techniques. In this context, the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is proud to announce that the Unite Maps team in the United Nations Global Service Centre in Brindisi, Italy conducted a humanitarian mapathon in March.
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