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IT companies contribute to trade data system, ASYCUDA
An "Automated System for Customs Data," ASYCUDA, developed by UNCTAD in cooperation with the business community, is now being applied in more than 70 countries worldwide and has improved trade efficiency by hundreds of millions of dollars. More
Leaders from academia and business join UN in drafting principles for responsible business education
More than 400 business leaders and educators from around the world met in Cleveland/Ohio for a international forum titled “Business as an Agent of World Benefit – Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change”. More
Partnering with Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, UNESCO launched ICT competency standards for teachers
UNESCO guidelines for teachers to use information and communication technology (ICT) to improve education will be presented to education ministers from more than 100 countries and to the press at the Moving Young Minds Conference in London on 8 January. More
PwC provides pro bono work to help update the UN's monitoring systems
PwC was working extensively with the UN during the mid-1990s, the relationship between PwC and the UN then went through a relatively fallow period but has really experienced significant increase again over the last 3-4 years. PwC, like others in the consulting industry, continues to look for... More
Industry representatives and UNODC set up meeting to discuss apparel and garment industry
UNODC ROSA hosted the meeting of the Core Group of the Apparel and Garment Industry representatives at the UNODC office on 2 September, 2008, New Delhi. The Industry specific core group has been formed out of the Think Tank on Public Private Partnerships to Prevent and Combat Trafficking, which has... More
Cisco, Microsoft, Intel and UNESCO help teachers bring technology to the classroom
As part of its mandate to build capacity in education worldwide and enable all students to benefit from high quality teaching, UNESCO initiated, in 2006, a project aimed at providing core standards for the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into the classroom. More
AMD, Intel, UNESCO and others launch Education for All (EFA)
The private sector, governments, international organisations and donors have joined forces to form a new global alliance for education. The Partnerships for Education (PfE), with UNESCO and the World Economic Forum at the helm, aims to accelerate progress towards Education for All (EFA). More
Microsoft and UNESCO bring together European educators to share innovative practices for ICT use in schools
Microsoft Corp with the endorsement of UNESCO, is bringing together more than 70 forward-thinking educators from 25 countries across Europe for the third annual Innovative Teachers Forum, taking place 11–12 April in Tallinn, Estonia.
The two-day event promotes the innovative use of information and...
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Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and UNESCO partner up to establish ICT Competency Standards for Teachers
UNESCO teamed up with Cisco, Intel and Microsoft, as well as the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), to set up the ‘ICT Competency Standards for Teachers’ (CST) project. The goal of the CST project is... More
UN-HABITAT launches worldwide private sector partnerships for sustainable urbanisation with BASF, Coca Cola and others
UN-HABITAT’s Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, launched a business partnership for sustainable urbanisation to encourage collaboration with the business community. The theme of the partnership’s first meeting on Making cities better places to live, work and do business was attended by over... More