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Innovative Applications for the Humanitarian Community
29 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – Over the course of the past several weeks and months, UNOSAT has been working with partners to develop innovative applications for the humanitarian community by integrating geographic data into new systems. The idea behind these initiatives is to empower end-users by providing them with actionable information and/or in user friendly formats to improve impact from their job.
Examples of such innovations at UNOSAT are Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR). Led by the video…
New Specialized e-Learning Module on Children and Climate Change
03 April 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - UN CC:Learn and UNICEF are pleased to announce the launch of a new e-learning module focusing on children and climate change. This specialized module aims to raise awareness and knowledge about the impact of climate change on children, opportunities for action and provide a child’s perspective to the discussions on how to deal with this global crisis. While accessible for free by anyone interested in the topic, it targets specifically government officials, development…
From Theory to Action: Indonesian Students Learn to Address Climate Change
25 April 2017, Indonesia - Through the Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change 2017, 150 students between the age of 17 and 25 years old built their knowledge and capacity to take action on climate change. This initiative – promoted by UN CC:Learn and UNESCO Office, Jakarta, in collaboration with the Climate Reality Project Indonesia and Youth for Climate Change Indonesia, with support from the Office of the President of Indonesia’s Special Envoy for Climate Change – contributes to the…
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…
On 12 July 2010 UNITAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) located in Gujarat, India.
UNITAR’s partnerships strategy aims at developing agreements with Academic institutions such as Universities and Research Centres around the world.
The Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) is one of the premier national law universities of India and offers degree and diploma programmes in law and related fields at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In addition to teaching, it provides research, advisory, training services at state and…
January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland – After over one year of positive research and experimental tests, the UNOSAT team has acquired its first Mini-UAV in late 2011 and placed orders for a second unit in 2012, while a third unit is planned for 2013.
Mini-UAV, or “unmanned aerial vehicle”, are very light and easy-to-fly electric planes carrying digital cameras and able to fly for a limited time in the vicinity of the operator to collect images over a small area. Most of these vehicles are made from lightweight, flexible plastic or foam and weighs less than a kilogram with wing…
UNOSAT Report on Damage to Cultural Heritage Sites in Syria calls for Scaled up Protection Efforts
23 December 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR today highlighted a new and comprehensive report by its UNOSAT programme that has revealed large scale destruction and damage to cultural heritage sites in Syria, including UNESCO World Heritage Properties. The study, carried out by experts on Syria cultural heritage and UNOSAT satellite image analysts, reviewed 18 different areas inside which a total of 290 locations were found to be directly affected by the ongoing conflict.…
SDG-Fund Launches 2016 Report with UNITAR in Attendance
12 November 2016, New York, USA - The Sustainable Development Goals Fund launched their 2016 report on “Universality and the SDGs: A Business Perspective”.
Ms. Paloma Duran, Director of the SDG-Fund, gave the welcoming remarks and brief introduction of the SDG-Fund and the report. She mentioned that one year into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the report aims to grapple with the concept of universality and the opportunities and challenges it creates for the private sector as partners in…
UNITAR Organizes Course on Multilateral Negotiations
16 February 2018, New York, USA – UNITAR organized a training course on “Multilateral Negotiations: Strategies, Techniques and Results”, taught by the Yale University Professor Roy S. Lee and attended by over 70 delegates.
The seminar focused on the ways of reaching a consensus to accommodate divergent interests and concerns. Drawing on his experience at the United Nations for nearly half a century, Professor Lee stressed the need to “find the right language that would cover different concerns”. He gave the…
Network Amplifies Groundbreaking Satellite Sentinel Project, Calls on Young People to Show that the “World is Watching”
New York, USA, 7 January 2011 – MTV and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, are teaming up with George Clooney and the Satellite Sentinel Project– along with Not on Our Watch, the Enough Project, Google, the United Nations UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Trellon, LLC -- by calling on young people to help deter violence in Sudan, and send a loud message: “the world is…