Webcast: Technology Plays Key Role In UNICEF Relief Efforts
White Papers In a Face to Face interview with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber, UNICEF Chief Information Officer Andre Spatz explains how field operations "scale up," integrating themselves into the global framework through a satellite system equipped with a...
[October 25, 2006, 0:00]
Gates Mocks $100 Laptop
Talkback A case in pint being him underwriting the UNICEF $400m vacination programme, plus various other stuff. I am not surpised by the anti-Gates sentiment, but lets get one thing clear, he is the only corporate leader that puts his hands in his pocket to...
[March 26, 2006, 10:08]
Tech Charity Quits Burma Following Government Blocks
Blog In coordination with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), TSF’s objective was to provide technical assistance and install back up communication solutions in three of the four humanitarian hubs in Laputta, Bogalay and Pathein right at the...
[June 25, 2008, 15:58]
Beastie Boys Go Digital
News An equal donation will be made by Microsoft Corp.to the U.S Committee for UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders. The songs will be available for free at www.launch.com. For each download by a new visitor during the 10-week period, one dollar will be...
[May 26, 1999, 15:59]
Computer Aid: New Life For Old IT
Talkback Second, the charity does not sell the PCs to Africa "for 50 quid"; that figure relates to the cost of refurbishing and shipping the PCs, and is raised by fundraising activities or is paid for by organisations such as Oxfam or Unicef who are...
[February 11, 2005, 11:33]
Video Blog: UN ICT Survival Training Exercise
Blog One of the exercises I witnessed, held on a military base just outside Pisa, involved the participants - from agencies such as UNICEF and the WFP - having to take cover from paint bullets fired from automatic weapons by Italian paratroopers.
[May 30, 2008, 9:39]
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 The first day of training we witnessed was in fact day 10 for 20 participants who hailed from a range of humanitarian agencies, including the WFP, UNHCR and Unicef. IT is integral to any relief project as, without the two-way radios, portable...
[May 30, 2008, 15:05]
Disaster Recovery's Tech Backbone
News Unicef's CIO Andre Spatz explains why it's important to centralise technology decisions when working in dangerous, decentralised environments
[March 29, 2005, 11:10]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback If we gave Aid directly to those countries needing it, instead of using the UN, UNICEF, UNESCO etc.hundreds of thousands of Americans would be out of work, BRILLIANT! Truth2, if people could be anti-American racists, they must be athletes.
[September 7, 2006, 18:30]
