Survival training with the UN's ICT specialists

The WFP Emergency Preparedness and Response Management Training sounds like a mouthful and well it should, as it aims to prepare would-be IT managers for life in the field in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones and disaster areas.

ICT specialists, along with the security teams, form the first wave of most aid agencies disaster-response groups. A UN IT manager in the field faces not only the technical challenges that a counterpart in any business would have to deal with, but also responsibility for the safety of up to a dozen colleagues, not to mention a budget of millions of dollars.