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28 August 2024

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Erica de Sousa
Communication Consultant
Communications Department, United Nations Resident Coordinator Office, Dominican Republic

28 August 2024

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Heloisa Gabriel Pinheiro
Liason Officer
Geographic Information System, United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

22 August 2024

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Nadine Husseine
Programme Assistant Information Management
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

14 August 2024

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Mercy Christine Githinji
Information Technology Assistant
Information and Communication Technology Service, United Nations Office at Nairobi

14 August 2024

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Linda Karitanyi
Administrative Assistant
Kagas Regional Office, Field Coordination, Office of the Chief of Staff, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic

13 August 2024

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Parimita Mohanty
Programme Management Officer
United Nations Environment Programme

08 August 2024

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Salome Jebiwott Cheruiyot
Associate Geospatial Information Systems Officer
United Nations Support Office in Somalia

07 August 2024

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Sarah Chitaha
Data Scientist
Ecosystems Division, Source to Sea Pollution Unit, United Nations Environment Programme

05 August 2024

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Mouna Ibrahim Daoud
Operations Reporting Officer
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

31 July 2024

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Muthoni Kang'ethe
Assessment Specialist
Global Environment Outlook, United Nations Environment Programme

24 July 2024

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Hikma Nur Syafaatun
Liaison Officer for Formed Police Unit, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

23 July 2024

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Cicilia Chopetta
Audio Visual Technical Assistant
United Nations Office at Nairobi

18 July 2024

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Lara Prades
Chief of Analytics and Location Intelligence Unit
United Nations Global Service Centre

15 July 2024

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Rebecca Calinsky
Data Scientist
Emerging Technologies Team, Policy, Strategy and Governance Division, Office of information and Communications Technology

08 July 2024

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Catherine Nabwile
Telecommunications Officer
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

03 July 2024

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Irene Chuma
Assistant Finance and Budget Officer
Regional Office in Eastern Africa, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

25 June 2024

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Amornratt Nampampree
Information Technology Assistant
Service Desk & Operations, Information Management, Communication and Technology Section, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

25 June 2024

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Amina Majid Yar
Management Information Systems Assistant
United Nations Human Settlements Programme

25 June 2024

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Namrata Mehta
Urban Innovation Consultant
United Nations Human Settlements Programme

21 June 2024

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Roberta Maio
Digital Rights and Inclusion Officer
Global Solutions Division Programme Development Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme

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

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

02 August 2021

The 2030 Agenda recognizes that the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and global interconnectedness has great potential to accelerate progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, to bridge the digital divide, and to develop knowledge societies.