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RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News When UN workers descend on distressed locales, they often encounter logjams at airport tarmacs and confusion over what exactly is in this or that box, said David Nabarro, who's chiefly in charge of co-ordinating... [11 Oct 2007]
US web stranglehold challenged
News Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current rules for overseeing domain names and internet addresses, stressing that poorer nations are dissatisfied and... [30 Oct 2006]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued the US and other wealthier nations must share power - complaints that will now be taken to the new UN forum. The European Union,... [16 Nov 2005]
US moves to keep control of net names
News Officials on both sides are set to meet about the issue next month at a UN-sponsored summit in Tunisia. The European Union and other nations are demanding that the US share responsibility for the domain... [10 Oct 2005]
Global supply chains face efficiency crunch
News With EDI there are standards such as Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 and the United Nations (UN) Edifact, with each moving towards using eXtensible Markup Language (XML), leading to ebXML and xCBL. [09 Sep 2005]
US can't dominate domain names, says UN
News UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has long pressed industry, government and private interest groups to ensure that people in poor nations have greater access to the internet. But the UN... [18 Jul 2005]
Who's deciding the future of the internet?
News The UN recently announced that its members had agreed that the internet was a global 'facility' whose management should be 'multilateral, transparent and democratic'. To this end, the UN has set up the... [27 Sep 2004]
Special Report: Kofi Annan's IT challenge
News The United Nations Information Technology Service, a global consortium of volunteer corps coordinated by the UN Volunteers programme, is training people in developing countries in the uses and... [06 Nov 2002]
UK flounders near bottom of ebusiness leaders list
News The UN study lists countries according to levels of technological prowess and achievement. The UN report judges 72 countries across the world on criteria including the percentage of citizens online and... [10 Jul 2001]
UN appoints head for developing world technology push
News Figueres, who promoted the use of IT to help boost his country's development, is to lead the UN Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Advisory Group, which includes technology experts from the... [14 Nov 2000]
Technology offers Asia a lifeline out of recession
News The United Nations (UN) will meet in Bangkok today to debate how technology can help pull Asian countries out of economic recession. Three IT experts based in the region... [27 Apr 1999]
UN claims IT can help the poor
News The United Nations (UN) has identified IT as a key way for developing countries to tackle poverty. In its latest survey on Asia and Pacific regions, the UN claims:... [09 Apr 1999]
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