Leveraging on Capgemini’s experience in United Nations agencies, they have built a vertical solution enabled by WSO2 technology (WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 Identity Server, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus and WSO2 PaaS) for UN organizations to build a 21st century platform to better serve people that: Enable the beneficiaries, the donors and an increasingly mobile agency workforce to access high-quality digital agency information and services anywhere, at anytime, on any device. Spreading the power of open data to reach interoperability and openness. Ensure that as the agencies adjust to this new digital world, breaking free from the inefficient, costly and fragmented practices, build a sound governance structure for digital services, and do mobile right from the beginning in a strictly secured environment. Unlock the power of agency data to spur innovation and improve the quality of services for people and donors: unlock the API economy in the UN world.

1. UN Reference Architecture
A logical and application model to fit UN Agency
future challenges
Ibrahim Khalili
System Integra2on Team Leader
Capgemini

2. Scope of the Reference
Architecture
BUILD A 21st CENTURY
PLATFORM TO BETTER SERVE
PEOPLE
“Innovate more with less”

3. The UN Reference Architecture sets out to accomplish three things:
• Enable the beneficiaries , the donors and an increasingly mobile agency workforce to access high-
quality digital agencies information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device. Operationalizing
an information-centric model, it is possible to architect the systems for interoperability and openness,
modernize content publication model, and deliver better, device-agnostic digital services at a lower
cost.
• Ensure that as the agencies adjust to this new digital world, seize the opportunity to procure and
manage devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable ways. Learning from the
previous transition of moving information and services online, with the opportunity to break free from
the inefficient, costly, and fragmented practices, build a sound governance structure for digital
services, and do mobile “right” from the beginning.
• Unlock the power of agency data to spur innovation and improve the quality of services for people
Strategy Objectives

4. Strategy Principles
To drive this transformation, the strategy is built upon four overarching principles:
• An “Information-Centric” approach—Moves us from managing “documents” to managing
discrete pieces of open data and content which can be tagged, shared, secured, mashed up and
presented in the way that is most useful for the consumer of that information.
• A “Shared Platform” approach—Helps us work together, both within and across agencies, to
reduce costs, streamline development, apply consistent standards, and ensure consistency in how
we create and deliver information.
• A People-Centric” approach—Influences how it is created, manage, and present services
through websites, mobile applications, raw data sets, and other modes of delivery, and allows people
to shape, share and consume information, whenever and however they want it.
• A platform of “Security and Privacy”—Ensures this innovation happens in a way that
ensures the safe and secure delivery and use of digital services to protect information and privacy.

5. Conceptual Model
First we have established a
c o n c e p t u a l m o d e l t h a t
acknowledges the UN Agency
business Model .
Both the Programe (Core Mission
of an Agency) that it is recurring
y e a r l y a c t i v i t y t h a t t h e
emergency/projects are depicted
in the described conceptual
model.

6. Agency as a Platform
To make the most use of
o u r r e s o u r c e s a n d
“innovate with less”, we
need to share more
effectively, both within the
government and with the
public. We also need to
share capacities to build
t h e s y s t e m s a n d
processes that support
our efforts, and be smart
about creating new tools,
applications, systems,
web-sites and domains.
Ultimately, a shared platform approach to developing and delivering digital services and
managing data not only helps accelerate the adoption of new technologies, but also lowers
costs and reduces duplication. To do so, we need to rapidly disseminate lessons learned
from early adopters, leverage existing services and contracts, build for multiple use cases
at once, use common standards and architectures, participate in open source
communities, leverage public crowdsourcing, and launch shared government-wide
solutions and contract vehicles
Agencies are missing out on opportunities to share ideas and resources within the digital
services space. Inefficiencies such as fragmented procurement and development practices
waste donors dollars and stymie the consistent adoption of new technologies and
approaches. The shift to a shared platform culture will require strong leadership at the
government-wide and agency levels. Agencies must begin to look first to shared solutions
and existing infrastructure when developing new projects, rather than procuring new
infrastructure and systems for each new project. They must also share ownership of
common service areas, both within and across agencies, instead of creating multiple
websites on the same topic. To alleviate the burden on individual agencies, prevent

7. An API Driven Agency

8. The Layers of Digital Services
The information layer contains digital information.It includes
structured information (e.g., the most common concept of
“data”) such as census and employment data, plus
unstructured information such as fact sheets, press releases,
and compliance guidance.
The platform layer includes all the systems and processes
used to manage this information.Examples include systems for
content management, processes such as web API (Application
Programming Interface) and application development, services
that support mission critical IT functions such as human
resources or financial management, as well as the hardware
used to access information (e.g.mobile devices).
The presentation layer defines the manner in which
information is organized and provided to customers
(citizien,agencies, government). It represents the way the
agencies and private sector deliver information (e.g., data or
content) digitally, whether through websites, mobile
applications, or any other modes of delivery. (multichannel)
These three layers separate information creation from
information presentation—allowing to create content services
and data once, and then use it in different ways. In effect, this
model represents a fundamental shift from the way agencies
provides digital services today.

9. Reference Architecture Logical
View
From the functional Model has been
designed an holistic architectural view
describe all the logical components
needed to support the conceptual model.
Starting from objectives and drivers
declining them in a conceptual and
functional model we are arrived to
describe the entire IT components that
could enable the 21st Century Platform.

10. Application UN Reference Model
Features:
ü Clean service
Layer
ü General Services
ü Unified Data
ü Rapid
Environement
deployment
ü Deploy
everywhere
ü Autoscale
ü Private Cloud
ü DevOps
ü Cost Reduction
Technical Benefits:
ü Push on API Approach
ü De-coupled
ü Elastically scalable
ü Cleaner architecture
ü Provides Pre-Prod and DR
ü Cloud-burst ready
ü Fast time to Market
ü Completely Open Source
ü Completely Integrated
ü Based on a unique software
stack
ü Based On Standard
ü Cloud Provider Agnostic
ü Introduce of DevOps
Approach
ü A Unique point of control for
the entire Architecture

11. Thank You