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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…

8 July 2020 By Wafa Aboul Hosn, Chief of Economic Statistics, and Juraj Riecan, Director of Statistics, Information Society and Technology Cluster, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Data and statistics are no…

22 May 2020 By Mahsa Hedayati and Amanda Wang, Information System Officers, Policy, Strategy and Governance Division, OICT The topic of privacy is gaining momentum in the mainstream big data discourse. Governments, policy…

24 April 2020 By Syed Ahmed, Senior Manager of Business Systems, Operations Support Division, UN Office of Information and Communications Technology My team and I lead self-service analytics initiatives in the United Nations…

21 February 2020 By Francesca Perucci, Chief of the Development Data and Outreach Branch and Luis Gonzalez Morales, Chief of the Web Development and Data Visualization Unit, Statistics Division, UN Department of Economic and…

23 January 2020 By Greg Ogolla, Data Visualization and Reporting Lead, Policy, Strategy and Governance Division, Office of Information and Communications Technology The Office of Information and Communications Technology’s…

23 December 2019 By Katelyn Rogers and Lisa Peterson, Data Literacy Co-Lead, Centre for Humanitarian Data, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs There has been a rapid and significant shift in the…

17 December 2019 By Mahsa Hedayati, Information Systems Officer, Policy, Strategy and Governance Division, Office of Information and Communications Technology With data growing exponentially, the Office of Information and…

8 October 2019 By Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer, Office of Information and Communications Technology There is a general perception across organizations, including at the…