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RSS un nationsJoint 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]
Understanding ebXML, UDDI and XML/edi.
White Paper The ebXML initiative is sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS and is an open public initiative with now over one thousand participants. A primary objective of ebXML is to lower the barrier of entry to electronic business in order to facilitate trade... [24 Feb 2004]
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 public and private sectors. [14 Nov 2000]
Benchmarking E-Government: A Global Perspective - Assessing the Progress of the UN Member States
White Paper In an effort to gain an appreciation of the global e-government landscape in 2001, the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the United Nations Division for Public Economics and Public Administration (UNDPEPA) undertook a research... [11 Jan 2005]
Digital divide still too wide claims UN
News As part of the efforts to bring internet services to developing countries, top CEOs have signed a charter to donate at least 20 per cent of their charity budgets to the UN's Forum Task Force. There is still a wide digital divide between developed... [18 Jun 2002]
UN claims software venture will cut costs for SMEs
News The project - which is a joint venture between the UN and the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) - is intended to unify XML standards into a single specification, called ebXML. [20 Oct 2000]
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 the percentage of the workforce with high... [10 Jul 2001]
Japanese developers launch e-translator
News Developers hope to be able to support languages from all the 185 UN member nations by 2005. Developers at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Tokyo are developing a system to enable Internet users from all 185 UN member countries to converse with... [25 Nov 1998]
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 Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to... [27 Sep 2004]
Ireland the world's 'most global' nation
News Membership of international organisations has increased and while UN peace-keeping missions have declined, the number of countries taking part in them has gone up. However, the areas of telecoms and IT show why Ireland comes out ahead of nations... [09 Jan 2003]
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 opportunities of information technology. [06 Nov 2002]
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 name system, including decisions over adding... [10 Oct 2005]
SMS SOS ASAP?
News Also, a report published by the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation last week questioned whether tsunami early warning systems are being given enough attention. The goal is to supplement older systems that proved... [10 Jan 2005]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News Most recently, a large coalition of international human rights groups was forbidden by Tunisian authorities from meeting to discuss the UN summit's topics on their own, the organisation Human Rights Watch reported on Monday. [15 Nov 2005]
UN seeks to establish XML-based trading standard
News The United Nations (UN) is teaming up with US-based Oasis (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) to devise standard Web-based electronic business procedures for international trade. [30 Nov 1999]
