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ICT News and Announcements

10 November 2023


Gunay Menekse
ICT Auditor
Office of Internal Oversight Services

08 November 2023


Chuxin Yang
Data Analyst
United Nations Operations and Crisis Centre, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Department of Peace Operations

06 November 2023


Merfat El-Mansi
Software Developer
Administrative Solutions Development Team, Information Technology Service, Division for Management, United Nations Office at Vienna, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

03 November 2023


Karine Louly
Data Scientist - Lead of Analytics & Visualization Team and Kamino Data Science Training, Business Transformation and Accountability Division, Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance

30 October 2023


Folu Odusote
Chief of Section
ICT Audit, Internal Audit Division, Office of Internal Oversight Services

27 October 2023


Eyerusalem Hadgu Gebreyohannes
IT User Support Technician
Call Centre, Field Technology Services, United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei

25 October 2023


Diana Yambo
Telecommunications Assistant
Field Technology Section, United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan

23 October 2023


Zainab Khan
Content Writer
Communications and Outreach Unit, Office of Information and Communications Technology

20 October 2023


Meropi Maria Argyropoulou
Associate Information Systems Officer, Department of Global Communications

18 October 2023


Maria Fernanda Ruiz
Library Assistant
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

16 October 2023


Pilar Lagos
Communications Officer
Department of Global Communications / United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

13 October 2023


Balques Al Radwan
Programme Management Officer
Cybersecurity & New Technologies Unit, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism

11 October 2023


Alexandra Kinigopoulos
Publishing Officer
Meetings and Publishing Division, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

09 October 2023


Quennie Dalloran
Senior Telecommunication Assistant
Office of Information and Communications Technology

06 October 2023


Meena Shah
Information Systems Officer
Automated System for Customs Data, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

26 September 2023


Meena Sur
Senior Programme Management Officer, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management

26 September 2023


Valeria Paulina Lobos Ossandon
Research Assistant
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

26 September 2023


Marame Sene
Information Technology Officer
Regional Office for West and Central Africa ROWCA, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

26 September 2023


Cecile Barayre-El Shami
Chief of Digital Economy Capacity-building Section
Digital Economy and E-Commerce Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

22 September 2023


Reem Abou Ibrahim
Associate Information and Evidence Officer, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism

25 January 2018

NEW YORK, 25 January (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced that a team of data scientists and developers from CKM Advisors, a consulting firm based in New York City, has won the Unite Ideas #SciTechMatcher challenge.

21 December 2017

Take a look at the 2017 interactive timeline to get an idea of what the UN's dedicated ICT professionals accomplished together in this third year of the ICT strategy.

With commitment, dedication, and hard work, we are transforming information and communications technology (ICT) in the United Nations. Following are just some of the major accomplishments of 2017:

30 October 2017

Imagine you’re on a conference call with colleagues and need to access an important file, however, you’re not at your workstation. No need to worry, with OneDrive for Business you can access your files from anywhere on any connected device.

30 October 2017

Senior managers should be able to access reliable up-to-date information in one easy-to-use tool to make more informed decisions. To that end, the Department of Management’s Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) has launched over 55 easy-to-use management dashboards on the Unite Analytics platform.

22 June 2017

NEW YORK, 22 June (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced today that Data for Democracy (D4D) has won the Unite Ideas Internal Displacement Event Tagging and Extraction Clustering Tool (#IDETECT) data challenge.

31 January 2017

NEW YORK, 31 January (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — Mr. Jonas Hörsch, a doctoral student in physics at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, is the winner of the Unite Ideas #SE4All MathProg Challenge. Mr.

30 December 2016

Take a look at the 2016 interactive timeline to get an idea of what the UN's dedicated ICT professionals accomplished together in this third year of the ICT strategy.

With commitment, dedication, and hard work, we are transforming information and communications technology (ICT) in the United Nations. Following are just some of the major accomplishments of 2016:

15 March 2016

NEW YORK, 15 March (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced today that Abdulqadir Rashik has won the Unite Ideas #LinksSDGs Data Visualization Challenge. Mr.

10 March 2016

10 March 2016, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) represented by its Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director, Mr. Nikhil Seth, and the United Nations Secretariat Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) represented by the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer, Ms.

28 December 2015

Take a look at the 2015 interactive timeline to get an idea of what the UN's dedicated ICT professionals accomplished together in this third year of the ICT strategy.

With commitment, dedication, and hard work, we are transforming information and communications technology (ICT) in the United Nations. Following are just some of the major accomplishments of 2015: