About

The Campus Computing Centre (C3) is the technology arm of the United Nations University and serves as a change agent for leveraging effective ICT to support and advance the vision and mission of the University. We are committed to serving the needs of the university community and ensuring that the users can make the maximum and appropriate use of the computing environment in their diverse range of activities, including teaching, research, outreach, dissemination, administrative and academic support.

Our services

Communications

Email, VoIP, IP conferencing, intranet & extranet, instant messaging, social networking

IT infrastructure

Data center, IaaS, hotspots, web hosting, private cloud file sync and share, multifunction printing, back to my computer

Development

Web applications, mobile applications, web services, scientific computing, websites

IT consulting

Infrastructure and computing solutions

Strategy

Our vision is that ICT should permeate everything we seek to do at UNU as an essential and invisible tool that is always available and seamlessly integrated into our activities - to address global pressing problems. At C3 we strive for service excellence by aligning ICT with business strategy and pursuing user-led innovation initiatives that combine efforts, eliminate duplication and encourage sharing of expertise.

Principles

  • User-Driven

    Focusing on user needs rather than on the system; always seeking to engage users as active collaborators in various stages of the innovation cycle.

  • User-Friendly

    ICT should be easy to use and require zero to minimum training.

  • Shared Services (UNU Global Office)

    Embracing an integrated, shared services approach, providing end users with seamless provision of ICT services across the University.

  • Green

    To adopt principles of environmental sustainability throughout all our ICT activities.

  • Simplicity

    To reduce complexity and duplication throughout all our activities by recommending the improvement and standardization of business processes, rationalizing ICT architectures and minimizing customization.

  • Cost effective

    Consider the total cost of ownership when making strategic decisions and to fully investigate open source alternatives wherever possible.


Themes

  • Global Office/Global Campus

    Develop and promote a consistent user-centric computing environment across the University

  • Global Team

    Strengthen the overall ICT capacity by aggregating the individual ICT units to provide 24/7 support coverage worldwide

  • Innovation

    Adapt and transform new concepts and technologies to meet changing requirements; generate and incubate our own breakthrough ideas that will lead to new services

  • Communication

    Raise awareness of ICT and their benefits; ensure that the users can take full advantage of the most adequate and effective ICT tools needed for their work

  • Partnership Building

    Promote collaborative excellence by working with other departments throughout the University to identify improvement opportunities as well as develop new solutions

  • ICT-led transformation

    Using ICT to facilitate collaboration, knowledge generation, value creation as well as diffusion of new knowledge and innovation.

Key Initiatives

Open Source Lab

An important pillar to C3's innovation engine is open source software, which is growing in leaps and bounds in every imaginable category of our technology stack. C3 is constantly on the lookout for suitable open source solutions that add value to UNU

Global Office

A borderless office where all the data and applications are available anytime, anywhere and the user experience remains consistent regardless of location and device. Harmonization of business processes and technical systems is an important step toward a consistent computing platform and interface across UNU.

Intranet of Everything

Maximizing machine-to-machine connectivity; using data mining and visualization techniques to eliminate data siloes and unlock the value of data that matters to research and day-to-day operations

Cloud Computing

Agile and rapid deployment of global ICT infrastructure and services using a hybrid cloud architecture and self-service cloud provisioning. We have begun to leverage cloud computing to develop a big data infrastructure for mining business intelligence from application and security data pulled from multiple sources.

Our Team

We are a close-knit team committed to excellence in service, continually advancing our portfolio of ICT services in anticipation of the changing needs of faculty, staff and students. Join us !

Ng Chong

Head of UNU ICT and C3 See my profile

Zaw Phyoe Tin Htun

ICT Manager See my profile

Conor McTernan

Senior ICT Systems Engineer See my profile

Bryan Gagaoin

ICT Support Engineer See my profile

Louis Consoletti

ICT Systems Engineer See my profile

Internship Programs

The internship program at UNU C3 aims to engage who are interested in getting acquainted with and taking an active part in the day-to day-operations of an ICT department of a global university, from networking to disaster recovery to planning to end-user issues. Interns will be able to further their skills development in a range of ICT areas under guidance and supervision.

C3 currently offers two internship program tracks.
Learn more about our Software Engineer Internship Program here.
Learn more about our Systems Engineer Internship Program here.