Led by the UN’s Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the 2013 Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) meeting was held on 2nd and 3rd May in Glen Cove, New York. Representatives from UNOCC, UNITAR, UNDP BCPR, UNICEF, OHCHR, OICT, OCHA, DFS/DPKO, UNHCR and WFP participated along with, [...]

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ICT4Peace Foundation’s Daniel Stauffacher and Sanjana Hattotuwa were invited to present a lecture on ICT for Peace and Global Justice by the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (TU Delft) at The Hague Institute for Global Justice on 11 March 2013. As the Institute’s event page notes, Representatives of the UN-accredited organization ICT4Peace will present their [...]

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Dear colleagues and friends, While 2011 was the year marked by the Arab Awakening and increasing awareness of ICTs for peace building, protection of human dignity and crisis management, in 2012 academia and think tanks started to analyse in more detail what happened and what the real contributions by ICTs in these instances were. The [...]

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Having first taught at the ISCRAM Summer School in 2011, ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa was again invited to teach at the 2012 Summer School, held at the University of Tilburg from 15 – 24 August 2012. ISCRAM’s Summer School is unique, in that it attracts both senior graduate, post-graduate and post-doctoral students as [...]

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On 15th June 2011, the Foundation was invited to an OCHA sponsored washup meeting to reflect on the lessons identified and learnt as part of the unprecedented collaboration between the volunteer task force and UNOCHA, also during the Japan earthquake. The goals of the closed door brainstorming as noted by UNOCHA were, To review actions [...]

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Digital Development Debates published by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH features this week a short essay from the Foundation looking at the use of ICTs in crisis response, peace-keeping, conflict resolution and state-building. Read the article in full here. As we note in the introductory passages, “Moving from a rigid traditional top-down [...]

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Academic Background and Career Highlights Dr. Daniel STAUFFACHER, a former Ambassador of Switzerland, has a Master’s degree in International Economic Affairs from Columbia University, New York and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Zürich. He worked for the district court of Zurich and the Swiss private sector before joining the United Nations. In [...]

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The ICT4Peace Foundation, the Swiss Confederation and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center are pleased to announce and invite you to participate at the 3rd International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) in Geneva on 14-15 November 2011. Sponsors include the World Bank. More details regarding registration for ICCM 2011 will be available soon. The purpose [...]

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The ICT4Peace Foundation was delighted to have participated in the New York launch of Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Humanitarian Information Sharing, a report prepared by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, in cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, Vodafone Foundation and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) at the US [...]

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“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 [...]

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