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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…
For close to a decade, UNITAR has provided computer-based skills training for hundreds of diplomats at United Nations Headquarters in New York, and a platform for advancing policy thinking in the field of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D).
The IT capacity development courses are geared towards diplomats with limited experience in information technology usage and applications. Diplomats learn the basic tenants of office productivity that ranges from understanding the components of a computer to how to use Microsoft Office programmes they…
9 November 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Road Safety Global Training Initiative successfully concluded its Learning Webinar Series on Management Practices for Safer Roads, reaching 895 participants from the public and private sectors, academia and NGOs from 89 countries around the globe.
The Webinar Series included six learning online activities held between 17 June and 3 November 2020 in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese languages to cater different regions of the world.
The learning activities were hosted in partnership with renowned organizations includin...
11-14 January 2021, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – A group of 97 senior officials and ambassadors from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change engaged in a four-day UNITAR High-Level e-Workshop to improve their skills and knowledge in environmental diplomacy, in the lead-up to this year’s Conference of Parties (COP26). The activity was made possible with the financial support of SIDA, Sweden’s government agency for development cooperation.
With the UN Secretary-General having declared that the focus of the UN’s agenda for ...
Improving Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh through Capacity Development in GIS and Applications of Satellite Imagery
27 October 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh – UNOSAT has completed training of 16 disaster management professionals representing 13 various line ministries of the Bangladesh government. Focus of this capacity development was Geospatial Information Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The course was delivered in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 14 to 27 October 2015, at the Bangladesh Space…
CIFAL Atlanta in partnership with Airport Council International (ACI) and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (HJAIA) hosted its 42nd training seminar titled “Airports and Economic Development: Latin America and the Caribbean” on March 24-25, 2011 in the city of Atlanta, USA.
This seminar, designed around intensive two-day training provided a platform for business executives and airport leader from 37 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean to share knowledge and best practices. The utilization of airports as economic development tools to secure a…
27 July, Geneva, Switzerland – UNOSAT and the partners of the GEO-PICTURES project activated their on-line geo-tagging capacity to test the operational capacity of the system in the aftermath of the blast at a munitions dump in southern Cyprus. The blast that killed at least 12 people also caused important damage to the island's largest power station causing widespread power cuts.
The pictures collected at the damaged site were uploaded in real time on the web interface realised by UNOSAT together with satellite imagery of the location before and after the incident.
GEO-…
Event to Build Capacities in Cooperatives
On May 17-20, 2016, CIFAL Atlanta, in collaboration with the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University (KSU), CENECOOP, Fundepos University, Cooperative of the Americas (COOP), Confederation of Cooperatives of the Caribbean and Central America and South America (CCC-CA) held a four-day learning event at Kennesaw State University on cooperative competitiveness and the digital economy. There were a total of 107 participants and presenters representing cooperatives, universities, financial…
CIFAL Atlanta Event Builds Capacities in Cooperatives
17 - 20 May 2016, Kennesaw, USA – CIFAL Atlanta, in collaboration with the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University (KSU), CENECOOP, Fundepos University, Cooperative of the Americas (COOP), Confederation of Cooperatives of the Caribbean and Central America and South America (CCC-CA) held a four-day learning event at Kennesaw State University on cooperative competitiveness and the digital economy. There were a total of 107 participants and presenters representing cooperatives, universities…
UNOSAT delivers training courses based on modules derived from high level standard training and its unique experience in producing excellence in satellite data analysis. Courses range from dedicated in-site and off-site classes of 7 to 20 participants and also a Master level course hosted in Geneva during three weeks....