"details.aspx?uuid="f62a06bb-7880-4fa4-a4f9-4014fb923ba6 0 At the Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, doctors and staff have utilized journals and research found through HINARI, the Research4Life program providing free or low-cost access to cutting-edge global healthcare research for developing countries. With HINARI’s resources, Bach Mai has built one of the country’s most modern health facilities and medical libraries. Benefitting from a free annual subscription to HINARI, the hospital now employs 800 doctors and supports over 2,200 patients. 5 Time: 3:37 January 03, 2013 Views: 179 | "details.aspx?uuid="5f9a6e2f-df06-4bed-8b9e-c2cb68c17880 1 Microsoft employee and former Bosnian refugee Leila Toplic visits the UNHCR’s Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and discusses her experiences as a refugee and now giving back to the UN’s Refugee Agency. 5 Time: 2:52 January 03, 2013 Views: 205 | "details.aspx?uuid="49c96bd9-4be2-4791-abfe-e061b784b49a 2 The registration system currently used by UNHCR is called ProGres and was developed with initial support from Microsoft. The system operates in over 300 refugee camps across 72 countries today, including 32 in Africa. Through registration and the use of ProGres, thousands of refugees now have their refugee status confirmed which has opened up access to more rights including their freedom of movement. This has also improved their lives helping them to successfully integrate into the local community. 5 Time: 4:46 January 03, 2013 Views: 260 | "details.aspx?uuid="25badd56-11ca-48b3-bcdd-0d2631fccff1 3 As part of our work with UNEP, WHO and FAO, Microsoft as the technology partner for the Research4Life program, has developed a new access and authentication platform offering researchers and academics in developing countries online access to over 7,500 peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and databases from over 130 publishers including Elsevier, Springer Verlag and Wiley-Blackwell. This video offers a case study on the SUMAWA project in Kenya’s Rift Valley, aided by access to research; the program is having an impressive impact on the local community, endangered tribes and wildlife in the area. 5 Time: 5:53 January 03, 2013 Views: 99 | "details.aspx?uuid="0d0d24d6-f637-4b50-b118-5c8a0f5bf614 4 NAIROBI, Kenya — On March 31, 2011, Microsoft Corp. announced its ITPAC datacenter technology will be utilized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the energy-efficient IT infrastructure for a new UN office in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at being energy neutral. Officially inaugurated by UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon and UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner, the new office building in Nairobi is intended to produce as much energy as it consumes and is the first of its kind for the UN in Africa. 5 Time: 5:44 January 03, 2013 Views: 1,150 |
"details.aspx?uuid="34f03422-decc-4814-b025-5e86a9b19db5 5 Governments want to improve service delivery and engagement amongst citizens and stakeholders, and improve worker productivity through the use of modern tools and applications, while meeting the demands of increased expectations on performance management and transparency as budget become more closely scrutinized. While providing technology that better supports citizens and workers is a significant step forward, there still remains the challenge of how we connect disparate sources of information to better enable performance management and provide strategic insight internally, while at the same time simultaneously providing information to external stakeholders for onward use and further exploitation. 5 Time: 5:04 August 19, 2011 Views: 38 | "details.aspx?uuid="ea2cc8f2-4033-4a0f-b04b-7555c74143e1 6 These recordings are from a live event held on April 28, 2011. The presenters explore the Scrum methodology, real-world examples and how you can adopt a more Agile approach to software projects leveraging Microsoft Team Foundation Sever for development projects on any platform. In part one, Ken Schwaber, the co-developer of Scrum and signatory to the Agile Manifesto, presents on Management & Scrum: From Here to Agility. In part two, Richard Hundhausen, the president of Accentient, presents on Implementing Scrum using Team Foundation Server 2010. 5 Time: 46:19 May 25, 2011 Views: 236 | "details.aspx?uuid="6ae80832-ca5b-4e15-94c8-c3837186bb5c 7 As a part of the UNIDO Microsoft partnership, the organizations are creating a solution to support the growth of foreign direct investment. AfriPANet, an online information platform, making key indicators and information from UNIDO available via the Internet. Enhancing communication and flow of information between governments and with the private sector is critical to supporting increases in FDI and wealth creation. 4 Time: 3:20 January 03, 2013 Views: 76 | "details.aspx?uuid="e133fcf8-216e-4477-a5d0-7e311e681421 8 Microsoft, Geodan and ESRI have been working on an architecture to deliver a suite of applications and services that allow multiple agencies to collaborate seamlessly in order to increase responsiveness and realize a single Common Operational Picture (COP) to support fast and effective decision-making in a highly complex environment. This video shows a simulation of this public safety solution in a simulation of a flooding scenario in the Netherlands. 4 Time: 4:10 July 27, 2011 Views: 1,046 | "details.aspx?uuid="9a02efb5-a024-4a59-b98b-60e29a6bd950 9 These recordings are from a live event held on April 28, 2011. The presenters explore the Scrum methodology, real-world examples and how you can adopt a more Agile approach to software projects leveraging Microsoft Team Foundation Sever for development projects on any platform. In part one, Ken Schwaber, the co-developer of Scrum and signatory to the Agile Manifesto, presents on Management & Scrum: From Here to Agility. In part two, Richard Hundhausen, the president of Accentient, presents on Implementing Scrum using Team Foundation Server 2010. 3 Time: 51:52 May 25, 2011 Views: 150 |
"details.aspx?uuid="9789cf62-b004-4885-80ef-db09eccb8761 10 These recordings are from a live event held on April 28, 2011. The presenters explore the Scrum methodology, real-world examples and how you can adopt a more Agile approach to software projects leveraging Microsoft Team Foundation Sever for development projects on any platform. In part one, Ken Schwaber, the co-developer of Scrum and signatory to the Agile Manifesto, presents on Management & Scrum: From Here to Agility. In part two, Richard Hundhausen, the president of Accentient, presents on Implementing Scrum using Team Foundation Server 2010. 1 Time: 37:04 May 25, 2011 Views: 101 | "details.aspx?uuid="50517847-19bb-4660-b3f2-5d819395e35b 11 This video tells the story of Suad, a young female refugee-where she's from and why she fled, how long she's been in the camp, and what life is like here. She describes her yearning for education, her aspirations, how she's currently using technology to learn 21st century skills, how this will empower her toward self sufficiency, and what this means for her family and community. CGI - Clinton Global Initiative 0 Time: 1:15 January 03, 2013 Views: 119 | "details.aspx?uuid="26831ba8-76c7-46a8-97ad-2e68cc5c7917 12 The European Environment Agency and Microsoft are partnering to deliver the Eye on Earth solution, which provides European policy makers and citizens with online access to the EEA’s important environmental data on air and water quality. Based on the latest Microsoft cloud computing technology including Windows Azure, Eye on Earth takes the EEA’s data and visualizes it on Bing Maps. Windows Azure provided EEA with a scalable and flexible platform to meet the needs of the EEA along with Europe’s policy makers and citizens. 0 Time: 5:12 January 03, 2013 Views: 313 | "details.aspx?uuid="aeeec59d-6def-4d7a-81cf-88469a752127 13 Peanut farmers near Bogor, Indonesia have benefited from a technology center set up by the Bogor Institute of Agriculture in partnership with Microsoft which has provided them with access to the internet for the first time. They learned best practices from other farmers and have doubled their profits within a year of switching to new farming techniques after accessing research from the technology center. 0 Time: 3:24 January 03, 2013 Views: 91 | "details.aspx?uuid="a1ff1086-8e01-4592-a063-9a7dc6b9c248 14 Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s UNHCR Council of Business Leaders representative, presenting from the UNHCR’s Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya shows how the Community Technology Access program can help improve refugee’s education and livelihoods through providing access to information and communication technology. 0 Time: 2:11 January 03, 2013 Views: 156 |