WEEE? UNSSSS? New app unscrambles jumble of U.N. jargon


  • World
  • Wednesday, 27 Jan 2016

A United Nations logo is pictured at the Grand Palais during the Solutions COP21 in Paris, France, December 4, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier -

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Understanding the workings of the United Nations as SDGs are thrown around with RIMLGs can be challenging even for insiders so Howard Hudson decided to step in - with a smartphone tool to decrypt U.N. jargon.

Hudson, a communicators coordinator at the United Nations University (UNU), realized the acronyms adopted so widely by the 193 U.N. member states were a barrier to getting public support for its work and confusing even those in-the-know.

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