IOC technology services open up to OCOGs

The IOC’s Technology and Information Department (DTI) has started to make available some of its services, which are normally accessible only to the organisation’s internal staff, to OCOGs. This move follows the spirit of Olympic Agenda 2020+5/the New Norm, aimed at increasing the support to future Olympic Games hosts.

Allison Whiteley, Acting IOC Technology Lead, explains: “It’s about further strengthening our collaboration with the OCOGs and seeing how we can support them with knowledge, best practices and practical solutions from our side. In the technology field, we believe this is especially useful in the phase of the OCOG’s formation, when we can provide a lot of pragmatic assistance.”

To this end, the DTI recently started a dialogue with Milano Cortina 2026.

Solutions provided could take the form of sharing the set-up and use of Office 365 for OCOGs in order to help improve their internal collaboration processes or develop solutions like COVID test book systems or COVID return-to-work systems, to name just a few timely examples.