“ Innovative technology is helping significantly in various peacekeeping , humanitarian and development operations carried out by the UN ”

— Federico Cocchioni , Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ), UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

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In addition , Cocchioni utilised his past career knowledge of IBM Lotus Notes to implement a new distributed database system for rapid deployment and secure encrypted data replication . Today , his role at the UN is Chief Technology Officer ( CTO ) of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia , working on technology to support the Sustainable Development Goals in the region .

Within the UN Secretariat , Cocchioni ’ s division is addressing the digital agenda for technology , which

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