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UNICC is a core strategic partner for digital business solutions across the United Nations system, providing agile, cost-effective, UN-audit compliant high value technology solutions and services. UNICC is highly competitive with today’s technology marketplace, often building synergies with industry partners as well as with its Clients and Partner Organizations.
How we create value
UNICC brings more to the table with:
- Experience and expertise for UN organizations
- United Nations Immunities and Privileges
- UN mandate for shared services delivery, efficiently, cost-effectively
- Standards and best practices adherence
- Superior operations and agile project management
- Partner Organizations have a say in UNICC strategy and direction
- Strategic partnerships with global organizations with shared agendas.
Key UN endorsem*nts
Read excerpts from Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) reports with recommendations for UN Agencies to consider UNICC for its cloud computing and cybersecurity solutions.
- Cybersecurity in the United Nations System Organizations (2021)
- Managing Cloud Computing Services in the United Nations System (2019)
Awards
- Learning Platform of the Year 2024 with UNOCT –
- Best Impact Project Award 2023 with UNHCR from Paris Blockchain Week 2023 – Blockchain
- World Procurement Awards 2022 – DeepStream Digital Impact Award. UNICC and PAHO – Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- CDO Magazine Data4Good Award 2022. For UNICC’s SDG alignment to Quality Education (SDG4) – UNICC Global Data Hackathon
- BRM Team Award 2022 from BRAM Institute
- UN Secretary-General Awards 2021. UNICC and UNJSPF for the Digital CE solution – Blockchain
- IT Dept Bravo Award for 2021. UNICC Microsoft Azure VD solution – Cloud services
- Columbia University Most Innovative Thought Leader 2021 – Data and analytics
- UN Secretary-General Awards 2020. UNICC and UN-OICT for M365 migration – Global communications
- CSO50 Award 2020 – UNICC Cybersecurity services
- IT Dept Bravo Award for 2020 – UNICC Disaster resilience
- Reimagine the UN Together Challenge 2020: teams advance to the Dragons’ Den. UN Digital ID project
- ITU Innovation Challenge 2020. UNICC and Microsoft’s UN Digital Academy
- Trade Facilitation Innovation Award with FAO/IPPC- UNESCAP Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum 2019. ePhyto Digital Platform
- CSO50 Award 2017 – UNICC Cybersecurity services.
UNICC Wins a Data4Good Award for Quality Data Education (SDG Goal 4)
UNICC Joins PAHO as a Winner of the World Procurement Award 2022…
UNICC Joins UNJSPF as a Winner of UN Secretary-General Awards 2021
UNICC Joins UN OICT as a Winner for 2020 Secretary General Awards
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We are truly grateful for the UNICC team’s tremendous energy and appreciate the relationship we have established during the project, with easy, reliable and practical communications. We are impressed by the course and are excited to start testing the training!
Kate Myounghee Kim
Business and Solution Analyst, Green Climate Fund
I am so pleased with UNICC because they are not only offering application hosting as we traditionally received from other service providers within and outside of the UN, but they are offering management and consolidation services, and they were really looking for ways to optimize our architecture and reduce our costs.
Kaan Cetinturk
CIO & Director of Information Management and Technology, UNRWA
UNICC provides added value with their expertise in planning, building, training and testing our information security and our business continuity planning efforts. These services ensure that we identify any continuity, resiliency or security gaps in our business-critical systems and mitigate them appropriately.
Rajiv Prabhakar
Head of Information Systems, UNJSPF
Partnership is the art of understanding shared value. In WFP we have a number of partnerships, not many, but the ones that we have are deep, are sustained, are long-term. And definitely UNICC is one of them.
Enrica Porcari
Chief Information Officer and Director Technology Division, WFP
Without your support, we would not have managed to achieve such a successful outcome. We have been particularly impressed by UNICC’s demosntrated responsiveness to our need for an independent auditor within a very short timeframe and your kind personal prioritizing of fielding a highly capable engagement team.
Martin Chungong
Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union
My objective at UNHCR is to be more efficient with the funds we receive from donors. Technology and partnerships play a large in making the dollars go further. We have to partner across Agencies, leveraging and building on institutions like UNICC.
Hans Baritt
Controller, Director Division of Financial and Administrative Management, UNHCR
UNFPA has achieved cost savings, optimisation of infrastructure resources and a general peace of mind with the trusted services of UNICC. Our GCP platform services were previously lacking integration, proper oversight and the skilled operational support that UNICC continues to provide.
Luca Baldini
Chief Information Officer, UNFPA
The partnership with UNICC in the development and deployment of the EWER platforms in Côte d’Ivoire has been a successful first that has been praised for its utility by all national stakeholders involved in the electoral process. Having proved their worth in Ivory Coast, the EWER platforms will now be an important asset to be deployed in electoral projects worldwide.
UNDP Electoral Team
Being at UNICC really taught me how everyone is so collaborative, very open-minded, and just really driven to work together. And I learned, especially within the IT field, that nothing is separate from each other; everything is integrated.
Samantha Berenzon
Break Through Tech Intern
We enable the UN family’s vision
We were created by the UN General Assembly as the shared services ICT organization of the UN. We enable our Clients and Partner Organizations to innovate and deliver. We envision and enable their digital transformation journeys.
We offer shared and scalable solutions
We provide trusted services and economies of scale to the UN family and other international organizations. We see a growing demand for shared services, with cost savings and business efficiencies for our Client’s digital engagements.
We provide a cost-recovery model
We, as a not-for-profit, charge transparently and based on services and digital business solutions, with surplus funds refunded at the end of engagements. We net down to zero at the end of each biennium.
UNICC is certified with ISO 20000, 22301, and 27001. UNICC is also a 2020 and 2017 CS050 information security award winner.