Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace and Ambassador Paul Meyer have published an Op-ed on 23 July in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called "Disarmament Negotiations for the Cyberspace are needed". The English translation of the text can be found here. The original article in German can be downloaded as a PDF from here. The world is facing a new challenge - a modern arms race with no visible weapons and identifiable actors, which is characterized by a growing number of known and hidden attacks on websites of government agencies or infrastructures. It often remains unknown, who ran these attacks, whether by governments or non-state actors. The fact is that new technologies provide in cyberspace a new genera...

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The ICT4Peace Foundation and its partners conduct a first of its kind training course on Crisis Information Management for African Peacekeeping and Peace-building Missions using ICTs and New Media (Cairo 9 to 13 October 2011)

Image courtesy The Lede, New York Times

Together with its partners, the Cairo Regional Center for Training  on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA), the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) Sweden, Zentrum für Internationalen Friedensdienst (ZIF), Germany, The Center for Crisis Management (CMC), F...

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The ICT4Peace Foundation's crisis information management wiki on Libya was created over a month ago. The first of its kind on the web at the time of its launch, and to date, one of the most comprehensive curated list of resources on Libya, the wiki features hundreds of data points on, Background information on Libya and UN operations Key UN contacts Key situation reports, including from UN OCHA A plethora of carefully curated Twitter feeds and other social media updates in English Videos, photos and podcasts Mainstream media news updates, including streams and content from Al Jazeera, New York Times, BBC, France24 and CNN. Discoverable and free GIS / mapping resources Google Maps mashups Ways to hel...

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11.1.11, Switzerland: The ICT4Peace Foundation, in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and GeorgiaTech, is pleased to release, on the occasion of the anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the first in a series of papers looking at the increasingly important role of information and communication technology (ICT) in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, peacekeeping and crisis response. Unlike other papers on innovative technologies (crowdsourcing, social networking etc) dealing with crisis response, reconstruction and humanitarian aid, this collection of thought provoking pieces by esteemed writers, including former Finnish President and Nobel Peace Priz...

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The tragic events in Haiti, Chile, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan etc, the breakthrough and high visibility of new ICTs and social media as tools in crisis management, which the Foundation has predicted and promoted since several years, the Foundations close working relationship with the UN ASG CITO, OCHA, DPKO, WFP, UNFP, UNHCR, etc. regarding the development of the UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CiMS) through the Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG), with Governments and important actors in this new space such as Ushahidi, Crisismappers etc., International Training Institutions and Academia: Harvard, Georgiatech, Lugano, European Joint Research Centre (JRC), have further helped establish the Foundatio...

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The Swiss Journal "Frauenstimme - Voix des Femmes - Voce delle Donne" which is the journal of the Swiss organisation "Women for Peace" features an article on ICT4Peace in their December edition. Download a copy of the journal here.

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Dag Nielsen, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace was 4 November invited to be keynote speaker on Mobile Technology at a web seminar organized by the InterAmerican Development Bank. Nowadays almost every single project in the ICT Cluster for the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) is using or considering to use mobile technology because of the high level of penetration of cell phone in the Region. The Mobile Technology webinar is an effort to keep the members informed about the latest technological trends, best practices and interesting applications of technology. Download the Powerpoint presentation here.

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In a letter dated  11 October 2010 to the Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Pat Banks, Chief  Communication and Services Branch, OCHA congratulated the ICT4Peace Foundation for the creation of the ICT4Peace Crisis Information Management Wikis in support of the crises in Haiti, Chile, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. UN OCHA commended the Wiki’s clean and clear format, that allows visitors to quickly find tools, informative websites, and relevant news articles in a given crisis. “Having such a wiki in the very early phases of a given crisis, when chaos on the ground usually prevents compiling such a resource, is a useful resource for humanitarian organisations. By using a ...

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Genocide Prevention Presentation The ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to participate at the early warning for protection conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, organised by Oxfam Australia and supported by Australian Government's AusAID, to explore how private, public and civil society institutions can harness early warning information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mechanisms to contribute to the prevention of mass atrocity crimes. On behalf of The United Nations Francis Deng, Special Advisor of the Secretary General for the Prevention of Genocide and Dr. Edward Luck Special Advisor of the Secretary General for the Responsibility to Protect and leading experts participated. The conference has explor...

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What is being done to support the prevention of mass atrocity crimes as well as reconciliation, healing and justice with a particular emphasis on the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)? As the scope for the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for peace broadens, the issues ICTs can serve to address will be considerably more complex in nature. Many countries have consistently failed to take early action to protect against, prevent or mitigate violence in cases where large numbers of civilian lives are to be in jeopardy. Examples from the past decade are the cases of Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia and Burundi, and there are also cases from Afghanistan, the DRC, Pakistan and Sri...

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