Examples of using Web services section in English and their translations into Spanish
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The Web Services Section created a specialized website in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
The task force was establishedin July 2007 and consists of five members representing the Web Services Section.
New pages created andpages updated in 2007 by the Web Services Section of the Department of Public Information.
The Committee was informed that conformance with those accessibility standards was rigorously enforced with respect to websites developed by the Web Services Section of the Department.
For example, out of a total of 12,987 web pages created in 2007 by the Web Services Section, over 2,000 new pages were created in each of the official six languages.
The Web Services Section of the Department continued to play a leading role in updating the site's content, with 5,678 pages uploaded in the first six months of 2009.
The website(www.un. org/forests)was launched on 4 October 2010 in collaboration with the Web Services Section of the Department of Public Information.
Since January 2005, the Department's Web Services Section has been responsible for posting an average of 554 new pages per official language, with an average of 2,040 pages updated per language.
In 2006, the General Assembly made four new Professional posts available to the Web Services Section to establish the separate Language Units.
In May 2011, the Web Services Section created and launched a website dedicated to the International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories(May 25-31) in the six official languages.
Table 3 below shows the number of new pages created andpages updated in 2007 by the Web Services Section of the Department of Public Information.
All new pages created by the Web Services Section are compliant with level I, and most comply with level II. New guidelines have been put in place by the Web Services Section in order to monitor compliance with accessibility levels.
Management of the top layers of the site(www.un. org),Chief of Web Services Section, reports to Deputy Director, News and Media Division, DPI.
The Web Services Section(WSS) is responsible for UN. ORG, the main United Nations website, which includes a broad range of web and graphics design services and overall responsibility for the online digital brand of the United Nations.
Following collaboration between the Department of Political Affairs,Security Council Affairs Division, and the Department of Public Information, Web Services Section, a redesigned website for the Security Council was launched on 4 October.
The Committee was further informed that the Web Services Section was taking a lead role in ensuring that the websites operated by the Department and representing the United Nations to the world at large were fully accessible to persons with disabilities.
Upon enquiry, the Committee was informed that, as at 30 June 2009,only one of the three established posts in the Arabic Language Unit of the Web Services Section remained vacant and that the recruitment process to fill that post was under way.
While the Department, through its Web Services Section, handles the bulk of the languages other than English and French, there is at present no count of the pages added individually by other offices because it is a labour-intensive process that will need to be implemented at the level of each content-providing office.
VII.16 In this connection, the Advisory Committee notes that, in response to the Assembly's concerns regarding linguistic parity, the Secretary-General is proposing the redeployment of one P-2 post from subprogramme 3 to the Radio and Television Service(subprogramme 2)to strengthen the Spanish language capacity of the Web Services Section see para.
The Department's Web Services Section created a web page for the nuclear disarmament high-level plenary meeting, available in all six official United Nations languages(http://www.un. org/en/ga/68/meetings/nucleardisarmament/), and continued to maintain the website of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540(2004) in all six official languages, in partnership with the Committee.
The first stage of the review indicated that, in the Professional category, the Department of Public Information currently has(a) 7 radio-related posts, including 3 in the Radio Section in New York and 4 in the Radio Services and Audio-visual Distribution Unit in Geneva, and(b)16 posts in the Web Services Section in New York.
Building on the successful production of UN in Action in the six official languages,United Nations Television collaborated with the Department's Web Services Section to post two-minute videos tailored to web and mobile platforms in the six official languages, allowing viewers to download stories, share them on mobile devices, embed them on their pages and post them on social media outlets.
