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ICT News and Announcements

08 April 2024


Dima Abou Hamze
Cybersecurity Analyst
Information and Communications Technology Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

05 April 2024


Winfred Awino Bolo
ICT User Support Trainer
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic

03 April 2024


Sifat E Monzoor
Data Analyst
United Nations Mission in South Sudan

01 April 2024


Jyotsna Sharma
Human Resources Officer
Department of Operational Support

27 March 2024


Hamna Nasir
Military Observer
United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei

25 March 2024


Omniat Ayman Fawzy
Programme Intern
Anti-corruption Department, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Romena

22 March 2024


Lorenza Jachia
Senior Economist
United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Serbia

20 March 2024


Ruth Mary Kemigisha
Nurse
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

18 March 2024


Esmarlin Julissa Moreno Nivar
Information and Communication Technology Associate
Service for Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies, United Nations Global Service Centre, Department of Operational Support

15 March 2024


Sweet Mae Monteclaro
Administrative Assistant
Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Programme

13 March 2024


Sarah Sawe
Project Associate
Early Warning and Assessment Division, United Nations Environment Programme

08 March 2024


Maria De Lourdes Gutierrez Ortiz Monasterio
Project Coordinator
Regional Office for Central America and the Caribbean, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

06 March 2024


Miki Mizunuma
Business Process and Implementing Partner Development & Outreach Consultant, Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) Urban Basic Services Section, Urban Practices Branch, UN-Habitat

04 March 2024


Nelly Chebet Korir
Telecommunications officer
Field Technology Section, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

01 March 2024


Jiayue Zeng
Associate Statistician
Department of Economic and Social Affairs

28 February 2024


Emily Antoville
Information Management Assistant
Archives and Records Management Section, Department of Operational Support

27 February 2024


Vara Permall
Data Management, Results Monitoring and Reporting Officer
United Nations Resident Coordinator Office

23 February 2024


Sarah Weiler
Research Intern
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

21 February 2024


Mariana Mihailescu
Strategic Planning Officer
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

16 February 2024


Christine Bradley
Chief of Section
Countering Terrorist Travel, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism

07 June 2022

The Department of Operational Support (DOS) and the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT), in cooperation with the Government of the Republic of South Africa, will be hosting the Sixth Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping International Symposium in the City of Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa, from 21 to 24 June 2022. This event was originally planned for 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19. This will be the first time the Symposium is held in Africa.

26 May 2022

On Wednesday 25 May, the Secretariat of the United Nations was informed that multiple dignitaries received unsolicited messages purporting to originate from UN senior management. These communications took the form of "Signal" messages and fraudulently stated that they were to inform the recipient that a senior management official was reaching out to them using their “personal number”. 

09 May 2022

Following the successful implementation of the Field Remote Infrastructure Monitoring (FRIM) (Phase 1) in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) last February, UNGSC’s Unite FRIM team organized an awareness workshop at the request of mission leadership.

04 May 2022

The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Informatics of the European Commission (DG DIGIT) and Moodle, it is launching a series of innovation challenges in the framework of the “Open Source Software for Sustainable Development Goals (OSS4SDG)” initiative.
 

22 March 2022

Last November, United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) and the United Nations Regional Service Centre in Entebbe (RSCE) field technology trainers conducted an intensive Micro Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) training course for the Mozambique National Institute of Disaster Management (INGD) and the Associação Moçambicana de Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados (AMOVANT), among others.

25 January 2022

The United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL) website is an online collection of texts of United Nations resolutions, documents and publications concerning the question of Palestine, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and other issues related to the Middle East situation.

30 November 2021

GIS Day is observed on 17 November to commemorate spatial and geographic technologies and to promote awareness of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or Geographic Information sciences.

28 October 2021

Youth development is a cross-cutting theme in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

01 September 2021

By definition, open source development is collaborative, inclusive and revolutionary—and open software has become ubiquitous. Whenever we are online, we are benefiting from open software. It powers the cloud, and is in supercomputers, blockchain, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.

27 August 2021

The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and the Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) announced the winner of the recent Unite Ideas / Financial Crime Data Challenge, which sought a model for financial