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Microsoft to Open UN Affairs Office This Coming Summer

Microsoft announced that would be opening the UN Affairs Office last year, on January 17th. It started working officially on the 1st of March of 2020. While Microsoft already worked with the United Nations Secretariat, and the various UN specialized agencies, it had yet to have a dedicated office to engage directly with the international body.

Then the global health crisis threw everyone’s plans out the window.

But Microsoft UN Affairs office continued its work, remotely, even enlarging its scope, after the World Health Organisation Director-General, Dr. Tedros, asked a number of technology companies to step-up efforts to address the health crisis together.

Dr. Tedros reached out to Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, and Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President, to ask for assistance coping with increased demands on its digital infrastructure. Microsoft brought a technical team right away to help the WHO deal with the increased demands on it…