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12 April 2021 By Stefan Lemm, former Head, Military Operations Unit, OICT Data Privacy and Protection is one of the key aspects of the Secretary-General’s Data Strategy. It is clear that protecting people from indiscriminate…

Land related issues can be one of the underlying causes of armed conflict and human rights abuses; in Afghanistan, for example, land management is at the center of many of its urban challenges, with more than 80 percent of…

The United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and Accenture Labs are co-organizing a conference on Knowledge Graphs for Social Good (KG4SG) on 3 May. It is targeted to practitioners of…

24 February 2021 By Lambert Hogenhout, Chief of Data, Analytics and Innovation, OICT Collecting data, organizing it, and sharing it is useful. Ultimately, however, the aim is to create business value. We want to turn data…

29 January 2021 By Martijn Lampert, Research Director, Glocalities In this Q&A, Martijn Lampert, Research Director, Glocalities, shares a methodology he and his team used to measure international trust in the UN. He argues…

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 educatio n towards achieving the…

14 December 2020 By Olabisi Shoaga, Political Affairs Officer, Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training, Department of Peace Operations Over the past few years, there has been a rise in the use of data, particularly…

25 November 2020 A Q&A with Jordan Morrow, Head of Data, Design, and Management Skills, Pluralsight In this Q&A, Jordan Morrow, Head of Data, Design, and Management Skills, Pluralsight, shares insights on what can help drive…

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…

14 October 2020 By Yu Ping Chan, Senior Programme Officer/Team Leader, Digital Cooperation, Office of the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General As we continue the conversation on how the international community should…

8 September 2020 A Q&A with Melanie A. Mecca, Chief Executive Officer, DataWise The scope of information that the UN defines, produces and uses is vast and complex. In June, the UN published the Secretary-General’s "Data…

4 August 2020 By Lambert Hogenhout, Chief of Data Analytics and Innovation, OICT Databases have been around a long time, since the 1960s. Times when the world was less complicated and less inter-connected, at least in a data…