Like most success stories, the partnership between UNOSAT and the international humanitarian community had a tentative beginning. Ten years ago, UNOSAT experts housed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva suggested for the first time the idea of a full scale service dedicated to supporting humanitarian decision making and ground operations. To be useful, the service had to be operational 24 hours a day, each day of the year, rely on standards and operational procedures still unwritten at that time, and be free of charge for humanitarian operators who had no time and no dedicated budget to pay for a technology service. Read more...
