“The ICT4Peace Foundation was kindly invited to participate at the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition 2011 (DIHAD). ICT4Peace Chairman Daniel Stauffacher presented on the topic of the impact of new technologies on coordination and information management in crisis.

At DIHAD 2011, Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs together with the UN Foundation, Vodafone Foundation launched the report: Disaster Relief 2.0 – The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, which was prepared by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

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Several reports by the ICT4Peace Foundation, especially on the experiences in Haiti have also contributed to the report and Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor of the Foundation is quoted extensively. The report proposes four interesting steps to establish an interface between the Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) and the formal humanitarian system, building on what the ICT4Peace Foundation conceptualised and proposed in 2010 with regard to cross-fertilisation of the crisismapping and UN communities.