JIU participation in a debate on data and knowledge management

On 8 February 2018, Inspectors Petru Dumitriu and Jorge Flores Callejas participated, at the invitation of Diplo Foundation and Geneva Internet Platform in the official presentation of the report entitled « Data Diplomacy. Updating Diplomacy to the Big Data Era”. The report was prepared by Diplo Foundation and commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. The two Inspectors made a presentation and facilitated a debate on “Data and knowledge management in multilateral diplomacy” based on the past findings of the Joint Inspection Unit contained in previous reports on knowledge management and partnership with the private sector, and as part of the ongoing reviews on cloud computing and policy research uptake in the United Nations system.