Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Young people are disproportionately engaged in low-quality jobs with fewer opportunities for permanent employment. Moreover, two billion people globally are “unbanked” and lack access to formal financial services. When low-income workers and poor families gain access to basic financial services (e.g. savings, credit), they take the first step towards greater security. Simple and inexpensive technologies to support job searches and local banking could quickly improve many people’s opportunities for work and economic growth.
UNICC Supports UNHCR Regional Call Centre for Ukrainian Refugees
Refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine can now access UNHCR’s protection and support services cost-free through the new Regional Contact Centre The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), with the support of UNICC, has partnered with industry experts ServiceNow, British Telecom (BT)…
UNICC Helps Streamline UNRWA’s Digital Services Hub
Developing the transformative eUNRWA digital services platform and mobile app UNICC recently provided the advisory support and technical know-how to help the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) build the ‘eUNRWA’ digital services hub for refugees.…
UNICC and ServiceNow Roundtable in Geneva
UNICC’s Clients bring on the value of cloud-based service management solutions On 2 December 2022, UNICC and ServiceNow organized a roundtable event in Geneva to showcase the achievements of their strong and evolving partnership over the past few years. The…
CITES Goes Digital: A Cloud-based System for Tracking and Management of CITES Review of Significant Trade
UNICC delivers CITES RST Tracking and Management System for greater efficiency UNICC launched a project with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in February 2020 to develop a system…
Artificial Intelligence Powers UNDP’s Evaluation Solutions
An innovative solution from UNDP in partnership with UNICC and Amazon Web Services helps unlock decades of experience for institutional learning Independent evaluation offices play a major role in gleaning and sharing years of evaluation knowledge and experience for UN…
Bringing UNICC Digital Solutions to a Historic Climate Change Event in Glasgow, UK
Seven UNICC teams including virtual meeting provisioning, cyber security, digital ID and data analytics support the 2021 UN climate change conference As the climate emergency continues unabated, the need to facilitate global participation and engagement in the multilateral process on…
The Travel Data Cube: an Inter-Agency Project to Drive Savings in UN Travel Costs
UN Agencies share aggregated, clean and consolidated air travel data to improve efficiencies The United Nations has committed to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, including affordable clean energy (SDG 7), climate action (SDG 13) and improved life on…
UNDP Data Strategy – Microsoft and UNICC Help Accelerate Delivery
Microsoft Azure Power Hour features UNDP‘s Data Futures Platform and NextGen Data Hub Microsoft’s Tech for Social Impact group hosted UNDP and UNICC for its 9 September 2021 Azure Power Hour to discuss UNDP’s new, integrated data platforms that aim…
PAHO Welcomes Mia and Max, Their First ‘Digital Workers’
The new bots developed by UNICC and PAHO support the procurement process of Covid-19 vaccines The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has added two Acquisitions Technician to their Procurement and Supply Management team, two new members that can work 24…
