faonow: new mobile application from the food and agriculture organization of the united nations

Introducing FAONow: the new FAO mobile

application

Mario LubetkinDirector

Office of Corporate Communications16 September 2014

FAONow is a free mobile application created to:

Keep Permanent Representatives and their counterparts in the capitals informed about the latest news / events from FAO

Provide easy access to success stories from FAO’s work

Provide real-time access through modern technologies so that Members can stay informed at all times

Background on FAONow

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Provides quick and easy access to latest:◦ News◦ Events and link to access related documents◦ Success stories

Downloads information to the device so that it is available offline, possible to save them as favourites for quick reference

Allows to share interesting articles via email and other social media

What does it do?

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Android smart phones and tablets◦ Samsung◦ Nexus◦ etc.

Apple devices◦ iPhone◦ iPad

Application available for

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Latest stories from the FAO’s projects and activities from around the world

Your Favourites

Latest News from FAO

Search latest News

Latest Events with links to Event websites

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Latest news

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Success stories of FAO in action

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Latest events

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Search across news

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Personal favourites

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New features are in the pipeline such as access to latest publications

Multilingual interface and access to

information

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For Android smart phones and tablets:1. Go to the Play Store2. Search for “FAONow”3. Click on Install

For Apple devices:1. Go to the iTunes store 2. Search for “FAONow”3. Click on Install

Installing the App

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FAO at your fingertips!

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More informationWebsite: fao.org/2/faonow

Contact email: web@fao.org