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.
C3 Vision
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 the pressing global problems of our time.
To realize our vision our work focuses on the following strategic themes:
Global Office: Develop and promote a user-friendly and uniform user-centric computing environment across the University.
Global Team: Strengthen the overall ICT capacity by aggregating the individual ICT units into a 24/7 global team.
Innovation: Adapt and transform new concepts and technologies; generate and incubate our own breakthrough ideas that will lead to new services and position ourselves as the ICT powerhouse for the University.
Communication: Raise awareness of the ICT services and their benefits and engage users in the design and development of new services.
Partnership Building: Promote collaborative excellence by working with other departments throughout the University to ensure that the users can take full advantage of the most adequate and effective ICT tools needed for their work.
Knowledge Creation and Diffusion: Foster a knowledge-intensive environment for harnessing and leveraging our intellectual assets and competence throughout the knowledge evolution cycle to enable ICT-led transformation within UNU and outside UNU and increase UNU’s sustainable competitive advantage.
C3 Mission
The Campus Computing Centre (C3) serves as a change agent for leveraging innovative and effective information resources and technology to enable and advance the vision, mission and strategic directions 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, and support.
Our work is guided by the following principles:
- Commitment to excellence in service to the University
- Commitment to a highly ethical and accountable culture in C3
- Commitment to building strong collaborative ties with other departments of the University
- Commitment to innovate and contribute to the advancement of ICT
- Commitment to responsible management of the ICT resources and budget
- Commitment to knowledge sharing and staff career development
Functions
The Campus Computing Centre (C3) oversees the conceptualization and development of the ICT strategic plan, provides overall management and operational support of the information and computing infrastructure, and advances ICT in support of the strategic directions of the University.
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 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.