Humanitarian Information Centres recognised at the UN 21 awards
At last, a piece of news that isn’t 5 months’ old! Clearly I’m getting better at blogging, and soon I will be a Higher Being.
On 14 December, the UN 21 Awards were handed out in New York. If you’re really bored, you can read the Programme and Ceremony Script (both pdf links); if it’s working, you can view the Webcast (a Realplayer stream that I can’t get to work). At least they’re trying.
The important thing is that the Humanitarian Information Centres received an award, picked up by OCHA Field Information Support Unit on behalf of the staff who’ve worked in the HICs over the years. (At least that was the original plan, but I notice from the Ceremony Script that it was only awarded to 14 staff.)
In any case, it’s recognition for the other excellent staff who have worked in the HICs over the years, some of whom I’ve had the honour to work alongside. Well done everybody, and let’s hope the future brings even more success in delivering information management in the field.
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Good to see these award coming through … also AIMS the former Afghanistan HIC received an industry award from ESRI for contribution to GIS… or was that for opening up Afghansitan to ARC GIS?
Either way great to see field Information Management teams being recognised! I trust 2007 will see more focus on inter-agency field support and data standards!
David Saunders
28 Dec 06 at 14:53
I found a link to a more detailed program. see … http://unstats.un.org/unsd/un21.pdf
The 14 staff are actually the 14 HIC Teams that have been deployed. Now that would have been a photo op!
Janet
3 Jan 07 at 15:48
Worth noting that it was Alta Haggarty who proposed the HIC for the UN 21 Awards!
Oliver Lacey-Hall
12 Feb 07 at 16:11
Hey, we’ll take any recognition that we can get…
Paul Currion
12 Feb 07 at 16:17
Intertesting to note that Geo-Spatial information (a central HIC ingredient) was also recognized in the form of UNOSAT. Could it be that some of this stuff is approaching mainstream status? Probably not for a bit I suspect, but at least awareness is up! Keep up the pressure!
Glad to see the general recognition for all those who labored in making HICs a consistant reality and the personal recognition for those lost in the Iraq HIC.
Nate Smith
12 Mar 07 at 3:10