UNITED NATIONS NOMINATED FOR COMPUTERWORLD SMITHSONIAN AWARD

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UNITED NATIONS NOMINATED FOR COMPUTERWORLD SMITHSONIAN AWARD

The United Nations Integrated Management Information Systems (IMIS) will become part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian’s Nations Museum of American History on Monday, 3 April, when the 2000 Information Technology Innovation Collection is formally presented to the Institution.

“The laureates in this year’s Collection are utilizing new information age tools to extend the benefits of technology to society”, said Dan Morrow, Executive Director of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program.

Nominated by John Chen, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sybase, Inc., in the Government & Non-Profit Organizations category, the United Nation’s work is part of a collection that includes over 440 of the year’s most innovative applications of technology from 38 states and 21 countries.

At the United Nations, a fully integrated management information system, deployed worldwide, provides the backbone of the administrative activities of the United Nations, one of the world’s most complex organizations and covers functional areas from human resources management to budget execution to worldwide payroll in more than 150 different currencies.

“The primary source material submitted by the United Nations will enrich the National Museum of American History’s growing collection on the history of information technology, and contribute significantly to the museum’s ongoing efforts to chronicle the Information Age”, said Spencer R. Crew, Director of the National Museum of American History. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution, founded in 1846, which is a complex of 16 museums, seven research facilities and the National Zoo.

Case studies from the 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian Collection will be available at , the official Internet site of the Computerworld Smithsonian Program, where the entire collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide.

Each year, the Computerworld Smithsonian Chairmen’s Committee nominates individuals who use information technology to improve society for inclusion in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s IT Innovation Collection. Founded in 1988, the Computerworld Smithsonian Program searches for and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways, across 10 categories: Business and Related Services; Education and Academia; Environment, Energy and

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Agriculture; Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; Government and Non-Profit Organization; Manufacturing; Media, Arts and Entertainment; Medicine; Science; and Transportation.

For further information, please contact Shahaeda Abbas/Simone Ross, Computerworld Smithsonian Awards at tel. 617-357-1977 or Valeska Hilbig/Melinda Machado, National Museum of American History at tel. 202-357-3129.

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