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WFP's 'boot Camp' For ICT Emergency Managers (part 1)
Blog Arriving in Pisa, Italy for the World Food Programme's training programme for IT Emergency Managers it hit me - this was not the field! I’m a member of the World Food Programme's Fast Information Technology and Telecommunications Emergency and...
[June 27, 2008, 22:03]
Accenture Case Study: Woolworths
White Papers Accenture helped Woolworths develop a highly integrated Food Supply Chain Programme comprising a number of core functional projects, as well as cross-programme supporting projects. Woolworths is one of the largest textiles and food retailers in...
[April 2, 2008, 2:47]
Feed The World As You Surf The Net
News Funds raised by clicks on the site go straight from the advertisers to the World Food Programme (WFP), which is the United Nation's frontline hunger relief agency. As users browse the site, they can click on the country of their choice, and half a...
[July 13, 2000, 8:02]
Pocket PCs Help UN Survey Food Needs In Zimbabwe Faster And With Greater Accuracy
White Papers The World Food Programme (WFP) is fighting the worst food crisis in Southern Africa since 1992, when a devastating drought hit the region. In Zimbabwe, WFP's survey team, including many locally-recruited staff, used a Pocket PC-based solution to...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
Video Blog: UN ICT Survival Training Exercise
Blog Last week I was lucky enough to get invited on a training course run by the UN Foundation and the World Food Programme (WFP) aimed to train UN ICT staff to become field managers in some of the most hostile conflict zones and disaster areas in the...
[May 30, 2008, 9:39]
ICT Emergency Planning Starts With Gatwick Evac
Blog I have just arrived in a damp yet picturesque Pisa to observe, and maybe even take part in an ICT Emergency response training day hosted by the World Food Programme, The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone's charitable wing Vodafone Group...
[May 21, 2008, 9:14]
Why Is The Italian Army Shooting Techies?
Blog I was lucky enough this week to take part in one day of a two week intensive training course for ICT staff from a variety of UN organisations including the World Food Programme, and the UNICEF, designed to prepare the IT staff with the skills to...
[May 22, 2008, 18:38]
Survival Training With The UN's ICT Specialists
News In February this year, the organisations announced a further partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) to develop an ICT training programme for humanitarian relief organisations across the board.
[May 30, 2008, 15:05]
Richard And Judy Rapped For Y2K Scaremongering
News Richard Madeley, describing himself as a millennium "guru" gave the audience a peek into his millennium cupboard, which contained tins of food, candles and medical supplies. Warning people they faced a NewYear "without gas and water", Madeley...
[February 5, 1999, 14:36]
MPs Pan NHS Care-records Rollout
News The report said: "Hospitals have often been left out of negotiations between Connecting for Health and its suppliers, and found themselves, as one witness put it, at 'the bottom of the food chain'. The MPs criticised Connecting for Health, the...
[September 14, 2007, 9:23]
Unisys Defends ID Cards Scheme
News Whitehall] were a herd of cats, but now they're following a food trail. Unisys, one of the companies bidding for involvement in the UK's controversial ID cards scheme, has defended the programme following a critical report by the independent body...
[May 12, 2008, 11:13]
Microsoft Considers Taking Admin Rights From Employees
News Microsoft "eats its own dog food", which means it deploys early builds of its software internally to ensure the products are thoroughly tested in a real world environment. There is a programme whereby some Microsoft customers get the patch slightly...
[May 30, 2006, 10:15]
MPs: Government Must Subsidise Rural Broadband
News In a report published on Tuesday, the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs condemned the fact that many rural areas can't get broadband today and appear to have little hope of getting it in the near future, at a time when...
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
Techies Bring More Aid To Earthquake Zone
Blog Since TSF deployed from its Americas base in Nicaragua, only 24 hours after the disaster, 17 aid agencies such as the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams (UNDAC), the World Food Programme, the International Federation of the...
[August 24, 2007, 15:30]
Tech Charity Quits Burma Following Government Blocks
Blog The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) is led by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Unicef and coordinated by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). I have just received an update that Telecoms Sans...
[June 25, 2008, 15:58]
Extended ERP: The Path Of Least Resistance?
News Hays Logistics had been using SAP to manage its business for three years when it signed a contract to manage distribution for fast-food giant KFC. Hays decided against using a niche CRM product, instead using a CRM module from SAP, says Nick Ensor...
[December 12, 2003, 11:10]
National IT And Telecoms Academy Seeks Sponsors
News Other industries for which academies will be established include construction, financial services, manufacturing, and food and drink manufacturing industries, with others to follow. Employers have the critical role to play as sponsors, providing a...
[February 7, 2007, 7:24]
Big Brother Files: Friday
News After spending two thirds of their £105 budget on booze this week, the guys have run out of food. The decision of whether they gain an extra £20 in their weekly budget will be announced in Friday night's programme -- which could provide a quick fix...
[July 21, 2000, 11:54]
Photos: Tech Reconnects Earthquake Victims
News In Niger, we deployed a prevention system to strengthen the national food crisis prevention system, [and] we connected 12 remote areas where [there were] no communications at all to the capital so that they can receive information in real time...
[August 21, 2007, 17:24]
Pledge 2000 Seeks Co-operation, Not Litigation
News Headed by Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower and supported by two minor celebrities from the food industry, Pledge 2000 is a public scheme "intended to help all organisations to work in partnership with their customers and suppliers to...
[July 29, 1998, 16:31]
