Logistics and Telecommunications

Yemenis head to the polls today to bring a close to more than three decades of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule. These elections are a first step towards the implementation of the political transition agreement, based on the Gulf Cooperation Council initiative, signed on November 23rd of last year, to end months of protests, violence and political impasse.

To support the Yemenis in their transition to democracy, UNDP worked closely with the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referenda (SCER) and the International community to coordinate efforts and promote civic engagement.

The new application, called “CyberMappr”, has been developed within the Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC), created by UNITAR, CERN and University of Geneva as an incubator of new tools involving citizen-to-citizen cyberscience. CyberMappr uses the internet to connect volunteers to each other and to a group of expert analysts at UNOSAT with one common mission. The initiative gained support from Hewlett Packard and the Shuttleworth Foundation, which is known for its support to groundbreaking ideas especially in the area of data sharing at global scale.

Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has handed over the management of a hospital in Maitikoulou, Central African Republic (CAR), to the Ministry of Health. The project opened in 2008 to combat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a neglected tropical disease known as "sleeping sickness." For three years, MSF teams tested and cared for people suffering from the fatal disease.

En réponse au cyclone de catégorie 3 Giovanna qui a balayé la côte est de l'île de Madagascar le 14 février 2012, Télécoms Sans Frontières a dépêché une équipe d'urgence depuis son siège international.