OICT Office

The ICT governance and project management frameworks are two key elements of the United Nations ICT strategy described in A/62/793. The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) recently launched an ePortfolio tool to support both of these ICT strategic initiatives. In February 2010, representatives from the Project Management Office and Field Systems Service of OICT conducted a training of the ePortfolio application tool at the United Nations Logistics Base (UNLB) in Brindisi, Italy.

The Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is pleased to announce the launch of the third round of the ICT Fast Forward (FF) Programme.

The goal of the ICT Fast Forward Programme is to facilitate rapid ICT solutions aligned with institutional needs or to improve the working life of staff and the larger UN community.  Fast Forward Initiatives also encourage ICT personnel to be innovative and work in teams across ICT units.

Until recently, low bandwidth and expensive satellite-based communication characterized services provided by the Information and Communications Technology Service (ICTS) of the UN Office at Nairobi (UNON).  Providing Internet and videoconferencing services for more than 5,000 staff in the UN complex had been particularly challenging.

Now, thanks to the undersea fibre optic cable which was opened to Eastern Africa in July 2009, the digital divide between duty stations in developed countries and that of UNON is history. Since November 2009, UNON-ICTS has commissioned and implemented a 155 megabits per second (Mbps) Internet Service Provider (ISP) gateway, providing a super highway for voice, video and data communication to all of its clients.