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News The authors of the Commission's report, headed by academics from the United Nations University in Maastricht, made several amendments to the report as a result of those comments, and comments received from other interested parties. [08 Feb 2007]
Joint United Nations/OECD System for the Collection and Processing of International Merchandise Trade Statistics
White Paper 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]
Data Quality Measures and Related Stress Factors: A Conceptual Framework to Account for Differences in Statistical Environments at Country and International Levels
White Paper 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]
Cisco gifts conferencing tech to Middle East
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]
EC: 'Open source almost always cheaper option'
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]
RFID-chipped passport deadline passes
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]
UK police collar "violent jihad" website operator
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]
ITU satellite phone deal for disaster relief
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]
Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself
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]
Lessons and Trends in E-Voting: Initiatives in the US and Abroad
White Paper 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]
China to set up its own 'splinternet'?
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]
Integration of GPS, Digital Imagery and GIS With Census Mapping
White Paper 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]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in public sector IT
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]
Center for Technology Excellence: 2005 Computerworld Honors Case Study
White Paper 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]
WiMAX: An Efficient Tool to Bridge the Digital Divide
White Paper 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]
