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Sharing Data Globally to Have an Impact Locally: How UNOSAT Works with Humanitarian Data Exchange
8 March 2016, Geneva, Switzerland – Almost everything on the internet is data. And everyone needs data. Humanitarian organizations need data more than anything else, in order to plan, to intervene in the right locations, to give their help to the people who most need it. The problem is… where do you find the data you need? The piece of data you need might be on the internet somewhere, but where, and what if it is not shared publicly?
This is a significant problem…
UNITAR and BADEA Concludes Successful Training on Project Monitoring Framework and Tools
8 January 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – The longstanding collaboration between UNITAR and The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) reached another milestone with the successful completion of its joint 2-week face-to-face training on "Strengthening the Capacities of African Officials from BADEA Beneficiary Countries on Project Monitoring Frameworks and Tools" for English-speaking African officials.
The training was conducted from December 10 to 21, 2017 at the BADEA…
Delivering innovative training and conducting research is at the heart of UNITAR’s mission. On the 18th and the 19th November 2010, the Manager of UNITAR’s Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) took part in a series of events organised by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. On this occasion, UNITAR was represented at the Study and Work Abroad Fair where students were introduced to PTP’s new courses on peace operations.
A lecture was also given on Peacekeeping and the United Nations at the University’s School of Global Studies. The School is one of UNITAR’s newest…
31 July 2013, Geneva, Switzerland – The UN Decade of Action for Road Safety- 2011-2020 aims to reduce the number of deaths from road accidents down to 50% by 2020. Based on information on road safety from 182 countries, accounting for almost 99% of the world’s population, 1.24 million of road traffic deaths occur every year.
In this framework, UNITAR’s Training Center -CIFAL Curitiba- with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the “First call for case studies on road safety for universities in Latin America and the Caribbean” to…
CIFAL Newcastle Organizes Workshop on Building Codes for Disaster Resilience
23 April 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh – UNITAR’s Affiliated Center for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Newcastle, Australia, organized an interim workshop as part of the project ‘Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges to Safe Building Codes for Disaster Resilience in South Asia – the cases of Bangladesh and Nepal’ in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Around 20 participants from Bangladesh and Nepal took part in the workshop.
The workshop is part of a series which includes the project team members from…
CIFAL Newcastle Holds Inaugural Event
16 -17 June 2016, Newcastle, Australia – UNITAR’s affiliated training centre in Australia, CIFAL Newcastle, hosted its inaugural event and a flag-raising ceremony to launch its activities in 2016. The centre, established in partnership with the University of Newcastle and the City of Newcastle, will host several upcoming trainings on topics related to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Representatives of the University of Newcastle, the …
The Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC) has entered a new phase of its research programme, focused on achieving results in the area of GIS using a collaborative thinking approach based on scientific methods. The centre is based on an international partnership between CERN, UNITAR/UNOSAT and the University of Geneva and a number of associated partners from amongst the leading academic institutions around the world.
HP Labs, an initiative of Hewlett-Packard, has a wide R&D line on Social Computing Research, which focuses on methods for harvesting the collective…
*Countries for which UNITAR/UNOSAT will have access to Google Map Maker data:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei,Burkina Faso, Burundi,Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde,Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, C...
Forum of Small States Interactive Session Held in New York
16 June 2016, New York, USA - The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Sweden, organized an Interactive Session between the Forum of Small States (FOSS), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT). The session aimed to determine the countries' needs and collect feedback from FOSS countries in order for UNITAR to provide the best level of training possible.
Singapore’s…
2021年5月25日・香港／広島 ― 今年度より、国連ユニタール青少年大使プログラムをアジア太平洋地域に拡大して実施することとなりました。国連ユニタールとITS エデュケーションアジア（ITS）の共催で、今年度の国連ユニタール青少年大使・アジア太平洋プログラムは香港で実施いたします。新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックからの「より良い復興」を目指し、高校生たちは10週間の研修で持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）などについて学びます。
「社会が発展するための原動力は若者です。SDGs達成を推し進めていくのは、我々の世代のためではなく、次世代の若者のためです。ITSは、香港、中国とアジア太平洋の若者が国際舞台で活躍するために必要な教育と持続可能な開発を支援しています。ITSの揺るぎない貢献を理解していただき、国連ユニタールに感謝しています」とITS創設者のダニー・ハリントンさんは話します。
「世界経済フォーラムで発表されたアップリンク（Uplink）は、SDGs達成や開発課題の解決に必要なアイデアや行動を触発するクラウド型新プラットフォームです。これに参加した若者はみな、新しいシステム構築や社会の変革に携わりたいという熱意にあふれていました。国連ユニタール青少年大使プログラムは、若者が将来の枠組みを自分たち自身の手で描いていく取り組みです」とグローバ...