United Nations Tracks Global Developments with NewsEdge Services (NEWZ)
BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsEdge Corporation, the independent leader in news and current awareness solutions, today announced that it has signed a new, multi-year agreement with the United Nations to provide the latest news to UN personnel around the globe. The UN has been a NewsEdge client since 1992.
Permanent missions to the UN have access to NewsEdge services, as well as several other bodies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO), UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and many more. The agreement provides the United Nations with access to several NewsEdge services, including NewsEdge Insight(tm), NewsEdge Live(tm), and custom news solutions.
"ReliefWeb teams in both Geneva and New York post daily updates on an average of 40 humanitarian emergencies," said Craig Duncan , Project Manager of ReliefWeb/Geneva. ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information. "Information managers use NewsEdge as an essential monitoring tool, especially in the case of sudden onset disasters such as earthquakes."
"We use NewsEdge as an essential service in the Situation Centre, which is tasked to maintain an up-to-the-minute overview of developments which could affect our current missions," said Stan Carlson, Situation Centre Chief, Department of Peace-Keeping Operations at UN HQ in New York. "We also monitor any developments that could affect the safety and security of UN personnel. For the Situation Centre, the great strengths of NewsEdge are the immediacy of its reports, its comprehensive coverage of news sources, and its ease of use. In a crisis, NewsEdge allows us to search literally hundreds of reports quickly by key word for the most timely and relevant current information and background."
"The Emergency Programmes' Operations Centre (OPSCEN), a 24 hours-7 days-a-week operation, produces an early morning brief and several other reports geared to address UNICEF's crisis information needs," said Ray Baysden, Operations Centre Manager. We rely on NewsEdge more than any other source to help us track developments and breaking news throughout the day."
"Perhaps more than any other organization, the UN's access to a comprehensive news solution can impact world events," said NewsEdge president and COO Cliff Pollan. "We are proud that our people and services are able to play a critical role in the way the United Nations manages information around the globe."
About NewsEdge Corporation
NewsEdge Corporation (Nasdaq:NEWZ <http://nasdaq.com/asp/quotes_multi.asp?mode=Stock&symbol=newz&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&symbol=&multi.x=43&multi. y=6>) is the independent leader in global news and current awareness solutions for business. The Company's mission is to make news valuable for business by helping people find the most important, relevant stories from an overwhelming volume of daily news and enabling them to act on the most current information possible. Wholly-owned subsidiary NewsPage.com, Inc. - <http://www.newspage.com> - is the leader is delivering personalized news and information to business people on the Web. NewsEdge's Enterprise business serves approximately 1,325 organizations including 81 of Business Week's 100 largest global companies with award-winning news and information solutions including NewsEdge Insight <../../offerings/insight/index.htm>(tm), NewsEdge Live
<../../offerings/live/index.htm>(tm) and NewsEdge Review(tm) topics <../../offerings/nereviewtopics/index.htm>. NewsEdge is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with sales offices and distributors throughout North America, South America, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. For more information about NewsEdge Corporation, visit the company's Web site at <http://www.newsedge.com>.
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