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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…

NEW YORK, 05 June (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — The United Nations announced the winners of Unite IdeasReboot the Ocean challenge. The challenge was launched as a collaboration betweenthe UN Global…

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…

NEW YORK, 21 May (Office of Information and Communications Technology) — As Italy confronts the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have had to explore new ways of teaching through distance-learning techniques. In…

Estonia Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden have pooled their digital education solutions to support other countries’ education systems during the Covid-19 crisis. The initiative is supported by…

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…

NEW YORK, 10 February (Office of Information and Communications Technology) —During its 75-year history, the United Nations has continuously utilized the most effective information communications technology (ICT) in its…

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…