QUESTIONS RELATING TO INFORMATION : RESOLUTIONS / ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Takes note of the efforts by some United Nations information centres to
develop their own web pages in local languages, and, in this respect, encourages the
Department of Public Information to provide resources and technical facilities, in
particular to United Nations information centres whose web pages are not yet
operational, to develop web pages in the respective local languages of their host
countries, and encourages host Governments to respond to the needs of United
Nations information centres;
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Role of the Department of Public Information in United Nations peacekeeping
38. (...) Requests the Secretary-General in the meantime and until a decision has
been taken on the proposals to be submitted for the multilingual development,
maintenance and enrichment of the United Nations web site, to ensure, to the extent
possible, while maintaining an up-to-date and accurate web site, the equitable
distribution of financial and human resources within the Department of Public
Information allocated to the United Nations web site among all official languages on
a continuous basis;
58. (...) Commends the efforts of the Information Technology Services Division
of the Office of Central Support Services in ensuring that the required technological
infrastructure is in place to accommodate the imminent linkage of the Official
Document System to the United Nations web site;
61. Recognizes the far-reaching impact that the linking of the Official
Document System with the United Nations web site will have in furthering the goals
of the Organization by making all parliamentary documents in the six official
languages publicly available, and stresses that the integration of the Official
Document System with the United Nations web site will represent one of the steps
towards significantly enhancing the multilingual nature of the United Nations web
site and will lead to efficiencies in all Secretariat departments;
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TRANSPORT DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
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Cost Benefit Analysis of the eTIR system
Summary, limitations and recommendations Agenda item 5
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Informal document GE.1 No.2 (2013)
Summary of the CBA
Assessment
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Summary of the CBA
– Technical options
– Scenarios
– Costs
– Benefits
– Results
Assessment
Recommendations
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Technological options
At premises
UNOG
UNICC
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service
PaaS (Platform as a Service
SaaS (Software as a Service)
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Costs
Development costs
Initial costs
Operational and hosting costs
Helpdesk costs
Costs to adapt national applications
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kernel (ensuring the
electronic exchange of
eTIR messages),
the web base user
interface, which would
serve as backup to the
kernel, and
the administration
console.
924 800 – 1 127 000 USD
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Initial Costs
Min Max
At premises 1,255,000 1,450,000
UNOG 681,500 792,500
UNICC 632,000 743,000
IaaS 632,000 743,000
PaaS 142,000 183,000
SaaS 10,000 15,000
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Operational and hosting costs
Min Max
At premises 340,419 526,059
UNOG 194,739 243,259
UNICC 167,719 257,059
IaaS 113,402 153,126
PaaS 159,116 180,816
SaaS 1,500,000 3,000,000
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Helpdesk costs
Minimal helpdesk: 2 IT specialists working
40 hours a week.
Initial costs: 24 500 – 44 000 USD
Operating and personnel costs :
126 180 - 216 600 USD/year
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Costs to adapt national applications
Update national IT system
integrating eTIR web services in the national applications
developing web
services
120 000 – 150 000 USD/Country
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Benefits
For Customs: 1.44 USD / Transport
For the guarantee chain: 2 USD / Transport
For holders: 5.5 USD / Transport
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Summary of the CBA
Assessment
– General and scope
– Methodological aspects
Recommendations
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General and scope assessment
Good assumptions (eTIR RM), tech. options
Simple scenarios
Missing indirect benefits
Missing costs for holders and guarantee
chain
Missing “of the shelf” technological option
Labour costs too low for Geneva
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Methodological aspects
Function point analysis
Detailed cost analysis (incl. risk factors)
ROI and NPV (5% disc. rate)
CBA based on unit costs
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Recommendations
Considering that the eTIR project seems to be highly profitable for all parties
involved in the TIR procedure, in particular TIR Carnet holders, it is
recommended that the eTIR international system be implemented as soon
as possible and that countries start working on the interoperability between
their IT systems and the eTIR international system, as well as on the
preparation of the required legal provisions;
Considering the large benefits for TIR Carnet holders, a potential avenue to
explore seems to be the financing of the eTIR international system through a
contributory system per TIR transport, similar to the one used for TIRExB.
Considering the commercial sensibility of the data that will be handled by the
eTIR international system and in view of the relatively small costs differences
with the cloud solution recommended in the CBA, it is recommended that the
eTIR international system be hosted at UNICC or UNOG data centres;
Considering the availability of orchestration software on the market, it is
recommended to consider the use of “off the shelf” solutions to
implement the kernel of the eTIR international system.
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Contacts
UNECE/TIR SECRETARIAT
Transport Division
8-14, Avenue de la Paix
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 917 13 13
Fax: +41 22 917 06 14
Email: etir@unece.org
Web: http://etir.unece.org
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Access to and use of the secretariat web site continued to increase. More than 1 million visitors
logged on to the web site between January and June 2004 and viewed 4 million web pages, or
downloaded 2.8 million documents representing 321 gigabytes of data. Work on a project to enhance the
web site commenced in April 2004 and will be completed in October 2004. (...) The information system on policies and measures and the policies and measures clearing house
(web-based tool) were further developed and work is under way and documents are being prepared in
response to conclusions at SBSTA 20 on web-based tool on policies and measures.
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Efforts to date have focused solely on data sharing, so the
secretariat would need to explore options for reproducing data on the UNFCCC web site.
15. To enable Parties to perform analyses on the UNFCCC web site, a web-based software tool
would need to be developed to allow users to sort and view the data in different ways. (...) Parties would need to agree upon the general features of the
analytical tool to be developed, such as web-based only or web-based and CD-ROM,
level of data disaggregation (i.e. country totals or sector- and source-specific
information), pre-defined or user-specific queries, search engine, and possibly an on-line
training/help manual
(d) Policies and measures, impacts and methodologies. (...) During SBSTA 21, a discussion will take place (agenda item 7 of the provisional agenda)
on options for approaches to sharing experiences and exchanging information on “good
practices” in policies and measures, including the possible development of a web-based
tool for policies and measures.7 Parties may wish to consider the issues relating to
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There
was general agreement that Web-based solutions may provide a unified approach across various statistical
programme areas. (...) Participants agreed that the
integration of metadata and harmonization and standardization of statistical concepts is a natural part of Web-
based statistical activities, and preferably at the international level. (...) As a possible architectural framework for Web-based integration, participants discussed the
potential of a “Web portal” controlling all transactions when accessing an existing application, preferably
in read-only mode.
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INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF VOLUNTEERS : OUTCOMES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES : REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
Members of the Namibian National
Committee visited their Swiss counterparts, and the
latter hosted the Namibian web page. The only regional
secretariat for the Year was in the Caribbean, based in
Trinidad and Tobago, covering Barbados, Guyana,
Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and
Suriname. (...) Many have been transformed
into permanent national volunteer information and
resource portals, as in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China,
Cyprus, Germany, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand and
Turkey.
80. Another widespread web-based tool was the
electronic newsletter, such as the international Global
Update, and national newsletters, such as those in El
Salvador, Mongolia, Nepal, Nicaragua and Portugal.
(...) In Australia, the Corporate Volunteers
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Virtual Round Table was a web-based service
providing information on corporate volunteer
programmes.
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SUBSTANTIVE QUESTIONS : MULTILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT, MAINTENANCE AND ENRICHMENT OF UNITED NATIONS WEB SITES : REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
The third type are databases, the most
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complex element of the Web site. These consist of records
that are continuously updated, and are retrieved and
displayed based on user preference inputs.
14. (...) Development of the language Web sites
would be on an incremental basis, based on the allocation
of resources in the regular budget. (...) Under proposal C-2, only selected basic modules,
including the audio-visual module, would be translated and
made available on the Web site on an ongoing basis. These
modules would be decided upon by the content-providing
offices, based on guidance from Member States.
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As a Director in France Telecom, he managed the development of new Value Added Services based on the emerging Internet technologies in the area of Messaging, Dynamic Web Hosting, and Security. Since 2001, he is in charge of Information Security within the Division of France Telecom responsible for the development of Communication Services (VPN, VoIP, Hosting…) to businesses around the world from SMBs to large multinationals.
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The centre developed a new web site.
17. The business plan is being updated for the period 2005–2006.
(...) The publication and wide dissemination of an information bulletin, La Lettre
du Centre, and the development and updating of a web site were also achieved. Training on
inventories and the use of databases, funded under the Strategic Plan, is also being implemented.
(...) Several projects are proposed, including capacity-building for municipal officers in the
environmentally sound management of wastes and updating of the centre’s web site.
Regional centre for the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago
Framework agreement
44.
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SIXTH SYNTHESIS REPORT ON ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTED JOINTLY UNDER THE PILOT PHASE : NOTE / BY THE SECRETARIAT
Non-Annex I
Parties now represent 74 (73) per cent of all host Parties.
1 FCCC/CP/1995/7/Add.1.
2 All activities are reported jointly, as accepted, approved or endorsed, by the relevant designated national
authorities, including proof, under official letterhead, of concurrence, approval, acceptance or endorsement of the
information by all other Parties involved.
3 It is anticipated that the SBI will be invited by its chair to join the SBSTA in its deliberations on the sixth
synthesis report.
4 The decision might be merged with the decision on the revised uniform reporting format recommended by the
SBSTA at its sixteenth session (see FCCC/SBSTA/2002/xx(report SBSTA16) and FCCC/SBSTA/2002/L.2/Add.1).
5 The detailed list of projects, with links to the respective reports, is available on the
UNFCCC CC: INFO/AIJ web site (http://unfccc.int/program/coop/aij/aijproj.html).
6 Figures in parentheses indicate values contained in the fifth synthesis report.
(...) These projects are small in terms of investment and greenhouse gas (GHG) impact; other project hosts and
investors have clustered such activities and reported them in an aggregated manner as one project.
8 This and other graphs based on the information contained in the report are made available on the
UNFCCC CC: INFO AIJ web site (http://unfccc.int/program/coop/aij) and are updated regularly. Readers having no
access to the internet may request printed versions of the graphs.
9 FCCC/SBSTA/1997/4.
10 The reports on national programmes, provided in electronic form, are made available on the
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