The Electronic Fuel Management System (EFMS) has come to life in UNIFIL with tremendous support from the field and a strong emphasis on teamwork.

The Office of Information and Communications Technology and the Department of Field Support have worked closely to bring the best industry practices to the field.

Fuel is essential to mission operations and consequently has major expenditure implications. There is a strong need for efficient control procedures regarding fuel supply and consumption.

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.

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.

In an effort to comply with international domain-naming conventions and UN policies for branding, starting 19 November 2009, the UN Call Management will henceforth be known as "myUNcalls".

Also on the same date, icall.un.org will be replaced by myUNcalls.un.org.

"myUNcalls", the UN Telephone Usage Management System, was designed to help staff members at Headquarters manage and stay on top of their telephone usage for international and long distance calls.

Member States are the United Nations.

Their work in the principal organs determines the work of the Organization throughout the world, and yet finding out exactly who said what has until now required an in-depth understanding of the Organization.

A new project, UN Member States: On the Record, makes information easily accessible that was once complicated and difficult to find.

The United Nations Office at Nairobi's Information and Communications Technology Service (UNON/ICTS) has just implemented myIMIS portal, which provides self-service access to IMIS data for UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN-Habitat and UNON staff members whenever and wherever it suits them.

The portal was developed as part of the Chief Information Technology Officer's (CITO) Fast Forward programme and is anticipated to become available to all UN Secretariat offices that are running IMIS.