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whitepaper Significant progress in improving cooperation in the area of international merchandise trade statistics continues to be made by the trade statisticians and Information Technology (IT) specialists of the Statistics Division of the United Nations...
[05 Feb 2007]
whitepaper This paper builds on the previous work of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) on data quality frameworks: focusing on the essential components of data quality at key points of the statistical process and relating these...
[05 Feb 2007]
News The recipients will be the governments of five emerging nations: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Cisco is to give away five sets of its top-of-the-range conferencing systems.
[29 Jan 2007]
News According to the report, which was authored by academics at the United Nations University in Maastricht, Netherlands: "Our findings show that, in almost all cases, a transition towards open source [produces] savings in the long-term cost of...
[15 Jan 2007]
News The deadline for countries required by the US to issue passports with RFID tags has passed and all but three of the nations involved are now issuing the so-called ePassports, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS).
[27 Oct 2006]
News The websites including azzam.com, azzam.co.uk, qoqaz.net, and qoqaz.co.uk, tout the virtues of jihad, primarily against the West and allied nations. Among other allegations, the indictment says Ahsan corresponded via email with a US Navy enlistee...
[21 Jul 2006]
News The ITU is a division of the United Nations. Thuraya is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates but its phones can be used from huge swathes of the Earth's surface, at sea and other areas away from cellular and other terrestrial wireless networks.
[11 Jul 2006]
Comment In a paper delivered in March last year to the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Scott Charney, Microsoft's head of trustworthy computing, outlined the argument for a joint response from law enforcement and private...
[24 Apr 2006]
whitepaper Around the world, many nations are moving toward more advanced electronic voting systems. Some nations are attempting to increase turnout in elections, others seek to reduce election fraud, and still others want to enfranchise difficult-to-serve...
[21 Apr 2006]
News The European Union and other nations demanded the US share responsibility for the DNS, including decisions over adding and deleting new top-level domains, with the United Nations. China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based...
[02 Mar 2006]
whitepaper The recent technological developments, including new high-resolution sensors, global positioning systems (GPS), geographical information systems (GIS), Internet and World Wide Web services, are revolutionizing cartography, surveying and mapping in...
[04 Jan 2006]
News The year started well, with the United Nations ranking the UK's e-government strategy third best in the world. From mega-contracts to open source and ID cards, Steve Ranger looks back at the highlights of the year for public sector IT and makes...
[19 Dec 2005]
whitepaper GSK is a leading, $35-billion-a-year pharmaceutical firm headquartered in the United Kingdom with global operations spanning 37 nations and based from the U.S. GSK's U.S. IT group launched a project to boost the company's collaboration, knowledge...
[14 Dec 2005]
whitepaper It stresses the importance of this new challenge, "Information Society for all", as stated in December 2003 by the United Nations and the ITU in the Declaration of Principles of the World Summit on the Information Society.
[28 Nov 2005]
News The United Nations has partnered with Microsoft to launch a North African IT training centre for young people. Koichiro Matsuura, director general of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), said in a statement...
[17 Nov 2005]
News The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunis, Tunisia, have inked a broad agreement on global internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week. By signing the statement, the Bush administration...
[16 Nov 2005]
News Just days before the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society begins in Tunis, Tunisia, watchdog groups are reporting clashes with authorities and violence toward at least one journalist in the North African city of about...
[15 Nov 2005]
News Less than two weeks before a United Nations summit on the internet begins, technology firms including Google, IBM and Microsoft are supporting the Bush administration's efforts to maintain the United States' influence over domain names.
[04 Nov 2005]
News But the Bush administration chose to go ahead with embedding 64KB chips in future passports, citing a desire to abide by "globally interoperable" standards devised by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency.
[26 Oct 2005]
News A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the internet. But he ventured even further by warning that if governance functions...
[19 Oct 2005]
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