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Apr-27-2020
Standards play an important role in mitigating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic
As in many industrial sectors, the elaboration of standards and quality infrastructure is crucial for maintaining the highest quality of medical…
Read moreApr-24-2020
Tajik textile enterprises diversify production to help prevent the spread of COVID-19
As of 14 April, with the authorities having taken drastic measures to help keep the coronavirus at bay, Tajikistan had no confirmed COVID-19 cases.…
Read moreApr-24-2020
UNIDO Special Webinar Series: Upcoming Events
UNIDO’s Department of Trade, Investment and Innovation (TII) announces new events within its special series of webinars on “Quality and Standards in…
Read moreApr-21-2020
Webinar discusses relevance of standards and testing in fighting COVID-19
The first ever virtual panel organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), entitled ‘Standards and Testing in the…
Read moreApr-20-2020
Strengthening regional accreditation in Africa
The SADC Regional Laboratory Association (SRLA), which is a “Non Profit Company” (NPC) whose goal is to improve the reliability of testing and…
Read moreApr-16-2020
Webinars on the UNIDO guidelines for re-activation of the Colombian auto industry
This webinar series introduce the UNIDO guidelines developed for the Colombian automotive industry to ensure that companies, which will restart…
Read moreApr-16-2020
Webinar on organizational resilience (ISO 2231:2017) in times of COVID-19
In the first of an interactive webinar series, titled “Organizational Resilience in times of COVID-19”, Mr. Osama Elmeligy, UNIDO international…
Read moreApr-14-2020
TRADE, INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION TRAINING ACADEMY
The spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the unpredictable developments certainly present special challenges to all of us. At the…
Read moreApr-11-2020
STAY HOME, STAY SAFE and STAY MOTIVATED!
Keeping team members motivated amid unprecedented times such as the COVID-19 crisis is indeed a challenge. For example, people may miss the joy of…
Read moreApr-09-2020
QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is primarily a global health crisis, but it also has far-reaching economic consequences. Worldwide, it is already disrupting…
Read moreApr-08-2020
ITPO Shanghai partners with White Rhino Auto company Robot delivery vehicles deployed to help with COVID-19
Unmanned vehicles or carts that can carry food or other items are nothing new, not in China at any rate. The JD.com e-commerce company began road-…
Read moreApr-03-2020
Free Standards in the fight against COVID-19
In response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, many standards organizations worldwide have decided to make freely available a series of standards…
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