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10-12 May 2011, Bergen, Norway. During the 2011 GDACS Stakeholders Meeting, a crowd-sourcing application for geo-tagged photos was released to the disaster management and early responders community.
Developed under the EC funded GEO-PICTURES project by AnsuR, in collaboration with UNOSAT, this Android app automatically geo-locates (tags) photos, size them according to bandwidth and send them off to a web-server - all with the touch of one button. In the web-server, photo location is indicated on a map, and the photo can be further assessed, shared…
18-19 April 201, Jakarta, Indonesia - In cooperation with the Diplomatic Academy of Indonesia, UNITAR's Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) organized a two day training workshop for Junior, Mid-level and Senior Diplomats from Indonesia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). On the first day the senior diplomats received a briefing on Leadership, where they got to know the evolution and the different theories of leadership leading to a value based and transformational leadership.
This session helped the participants demystify the concept of leadership…
28 June - 30 June 2011, New York, USA. The UNITAR New York Office organizes a “Workshop on the structure, retrieval and use of United Nations documentation”, jointly organized with the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and in cooperation with the Office of Legal Affairs. On both days, the workshop will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The workshop will inform new delegates in permanent missions to the United Nations in New York how to identify and electronically retrieve the documents of the various organs of the United Nations. The workshop…
25 July to 23 September 2011, Social Media Tools, e-learning course. In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed the course Innovative Collaboration for Development, an e-learning course on social media tools.
UNITAR is pleased to announce the opening of registrations of a special session, taking place from 25 July to 23…
This successful methodology has already been used in several capacity development projects run by UNOSAT for UN member states and a few international organizations. The methodology combines capacity development in situ with transfer of knowledge, including UNOSAT generated best practices, and technical assistance when needed.
The Geospatial Information course offered within the curriculum of the Master of Disaster Management at Copenhagen University is open each year to applicants taking the Master course in Copenhagen. UNOSAT is planning to offer soon a similar course to ...
A joint UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna training course on Mission Preparedness: the Psycho-Social Dimension of Peace Operations begins in Pisa, Italy. The week long training course (February 22 to February 26, 2010) is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
The course is intended to provide participants with an overview of variables possibly affecting the relationship between the individual and his/her social and working environment in a field operation. The modern complexities of peacekeeping are putting strain…
International trade is now widely acknowledged as an important engine of growth in most developing and transition economies. The recent ministerial meetings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have further demonstrated the importance of international trade and investment flows, with many developing economies joining hands to vigorously defend their interests in this area.
The course is targeted to professionals, and government officials that look to continue their skills building and networking; in a flexible cost effective training environment. UNITAR strives to…
The recent global economic and financial crisis has revealed the crucial importance of understanding the intricacies of risk analysis and risk management applied to finance. This advanced course is designed to provide professionals with specific hands-on tools and modeling techniques for effective risk management, and builds on the Fundamentals of Risk Management course.
The course is targeted to professionals, delegates and government officials that look to continue their skills building and networking; in a flexible cost effective training environment. UNITAR…
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly deliver a series of online courses on knowledge management and web 2.0 technologies for developing countries.
The UNITAR/FAO interactive tutor-facilitated online courses will be certified using internationally recognized quality standards schemes and based on a series of self-paced e-learning modules developed by FAO.
The first online course, jointly designed by UNITAR and FAO, is titled: “Innovative…
The Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ), with the support of UNITAR, launched a new project to “Strengthen Capacities for Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and support GHS capacity building” at a workshop in Lusaka on 24 September 2010. Speaking at the workshop, Acting Director of ECZ, Mr Edwin Soko, said that the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is a new international tool that can be effectively used as a basis for developing comprehensive national chemical safety…