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Getting down to business: Realistic goals for the promotion of peace in cyber...
Published 30th December 2011 in featured, Publications, Updates
In this latest paper by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the authors have called for a non-binding code of conduct to strengthen cyber-security and mitigate the threat of growing cyber-security threats. The paper is a substantive basis for the call issued by the authors in an op-ed in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on 6 July 2011, for such a non-binding...
ICT4Peace Foundation’s 2011 Year End Report
Published 23rd December 2011 in Home_page_publications, Publications, Updates
Dear colleagues and friends, I am pleased to send you the ICT4Peace Foundation's 2011 Year End Report, which you can read online here, or download as a PDF here. 2011 was, as the year before, rather tumultuous with the Arab Awakening and with political, economic and social upheaval affecting every corner of the globe. The year has also ...
ICT4Peace supports Futurict.eu: An EU FET Flagship Pilot Project
Published 28th November 2011 in Partner Content, Updates
28 November, Geneva, Switzerland – Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation, participated as a member of the Futurict project team in the EU FET Flagship Pilots Midterm Conference, 24-25 November 2011, Warsaw, Poland. This project is co-lead by Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich and Prof. Steven Bishop, University College, London al...
Monitoring Tunisia’s first election: Rapport Preliminaire | Preliminary Report
Published 24th October 2011 in Partners, Publications, Updates
As part of its mission, the “Higher Independent Election Committee” (ISIE) or “Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Elections” (ISIE) has established, with the technical and management support of the ICT4peace Foundation an online and web-based control system for transparency and regularity of the organization of the elections and...
From the UN Chronicle: Strengthening Crisis Information Management
Published 11th October 2011 in Foundation in the media, Publications, Updates
Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations and Co-Founder and Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation writes for the UN Chronicle on Crisis Information Management. He notes that, ...It is now a given that ICTs are front and centre in relief and aid work, irrespective of the nature of the disaster and where it occu...
Crisis Information Management for African Peacekeeping and Peace-building Missio...
Published 4th October 2011 in Foundation's Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications, Updates
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)
Crisis Management: Understanding the Real Impact of ICTs, Social Media and Crisi...
Published 24th June 2011 in Publications, Updates
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 passag...
Report on global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability
Published 29th May 2011 in Partner Content, Publications, Updates
The Transparency Accountability Initiative recently released the final report on a Global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability. As the launch press release avers, As internet and mobile phone use increases, technology is transforming the field of transparency and accountability making it an increasingly dynamic space ...
UN Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) Meeting, 19 May 2011
Published 26th May 2011 in Publications, Updates
ICT is a huge enabler and source of empowerment, allowing individuals to take some, albeit limited, control of their own destiny within the chaotic framework of a crisis, natural disaster or post-conflict situation. From the SMS/text messages from the Haitian earthquake zone and refugees in Darfur to Rwandan farmers checking grain prices on-line...
The future of the Web: A means to accelerate social and economic change?
Published 11th April 2011 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Publications
Tim Berners-Lee and British former Prime Minister Gordon Brown were at the University of Geneva on Wednesday 6 April to talk before 2000 people about the future of the web and its role in initiating change. Both leaders are prominent directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, whose mission is to help expanding access to the 80 per cent of t...
Comprehensive resource list on 2011 Libyan Uprising
Published 5th April 2011 in Foundation's Reports, Publications, Updates
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...
Peacebuilding in the Information Age: Sifting Hype from Reality
Published 10th January 2011 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Foundation's Reports, Home_page_publications, Partners, Publications, Updates
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 an...
Report on the work of the ICT4Peace Foundation in 2010
Published 26th December 2010 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Foundation's Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications, Updates
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 develo...
Frauenstimme – Voix des Femmes – Voce delle Donne
Published 20th December 2010 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Reports, German, Publications, Updates
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.
United Nations core ICT strategy incorporates crisis information management
Published 20th December 2010 in featured, Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications, Updates
As noted in the Foreword by Dr. Choi Soon-hong, Assistant Secretary-General & Chief Information Technology Officer, The goal of the ICT strategy, described in this publication, is to maximize the value of ICT in improving the Secretariat’s overall effectiveness and efficiency at delivering its services to the global community. The main ...
Report of the UN Secretary General underscores crisis information management str...
Published 20th December 2010 in featured, Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Publications, Updates
Status of implementation of the information and communications technology strategy for the United Nations Secretariat, Report of the Secretary-General (A/65/491) prominently underscores the Crisis Information Management (CiM) Strategy, which the ICT4Peace Foundation has supported the UN's Office of Information and Communications Technology (...
UN GAID: Presentation on ICT for Disaster Relief and Post-Conflict Zones
Published 18th December 2010 in Events, Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Publications, Updates
At the Annual Meeting of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) 5-6 December 2010 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the ICT4Peace Foundation through Dag Nielsen was offered to lead a workshop called Solution Salon on the topic "ICT for Disaster Relief/Post-Conflict Zones". The purpose of the Solution Salons is to engage particip...
InterAmerican Development Bank Webinar on Mobile Technology
Published 21st November 2010 in Foundation's Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications, Updates
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 ...
The Matrix plugin for Ushahidi platform
Published 4th November 2010 in Foundation's Press Releases, Projects & Programmes, Publications
October 2010: In view of the increasing need to qualify and verify crowdsourced information, the ICT4Peace Foundation helped the development of the Matrix plugin for the Ushahidi platform. Used in the Ushahidi instance set up to monitor the Tanzanian national elections on 31st October 2010, this plugin essentially requires pre-trained report...
ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes
Published 3rd November 2010 in Foundation's Reports, Publications, Updates
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 add...
UN CITO Dr. Choi Soon-hong at Crisismappers meeting 2010
Published 3rd October 2010 in Events, Events, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
UN CITO Dr. Choi Soon-hong at Crisismappers meeting 2010 delivered a keynote address at the Crisismappers conference in Boston, held on 1st October. Dr. Choi said he "wished more lives had been saved (in Haiti) because of emergency preparedness and info sharing", said the UN was leveraging technology to help with disaster response, warned...
Haiti Information and Communications Observations
Published 21st September 2010 in Partner Content, Partners, Publications
This paper recounts the observations of a visit to Haiti from 18 February to 1 March 2010, regarding the effects of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Haiti’s information and communications (ICT) infrastructure and capacity. In addition to detailing the degree of destruction dealt to the ICT sector, the paper also addresses the major actors a...
Finding space for crowd-sourcing in humanitarian response
Published 14th July 2010 in Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
Originally published here. 05 Jul 2010 13:23:22 GMT Source: IRIN Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. NAIROBI, 5 July 2010 (IRIN) - "Crowd-sourcing" is a new buzzword in the world of humanitarian information. The combined...
Interview on crisis information management at IDRC Global Risk Forum
Published 14th July 2010 in Events, Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
Click here to watch the video. Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, was part of a panel looking at ICTs and risk management at the IDRC Global Risk Forum held recently in Davos, Switzerland. The so-called Red Chair interview was an opportunity for panelists and speakers to briefly share their thoughts on video...
US State Department Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU) report on Haiti earthqua...
Published 13th July 2010 in Partner Content, Partner Reports, Publications, Updates
Download the full report here. Summary: New information and communication technologies, new information providers, and new international communities of interest emerged during the Haiti earthquake response that will forever change how humanitarian information is collected, shared, and managed. Humanitarian responders used social netw...
Interview with Juliana Rotich on Crisis relevant information in real-time
Published 9th July 2010 in Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partners, Updates
The DLD Women website features a very interesting interview with Ushahidi co-founder Juliana Rotich, who kindly refers to the ICT4Peace Foundation's support of the platform's data categorisation and verification capabilities. Read it online here, or download the PDF here.
ICT4Peace Foundation endorses 2010 Global Peace Index
Published 11th June 2010 in Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
The Global Peace Index, which has just released its 2010 rankings. See them at http://www.visionofhumanity.org. As noted on the website, 149 nations of the world have been ranked by their peacefulness and the results have stimulated some very interesting analysis. Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador of Switzerland & Chairman, ICT4...
ICT4Peace Foundation enters into new agreement with Ushahidi to develop Crisis I...
Published 6th June 2010 in Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
25 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: During the high-level debate on 'ICTs for Disaster Management' and the workshop on 'Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs' at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) FORUM 2010 held in May, the ICT4Peace Foundation was pleased to announce a new phase of support for the U...
Report on Information and Communications Technology for Peace
Published 3rd June 2010 in Home_page_publications, Publications
A report on the use of Information and Communications Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Published 27th May 2010 in Publications
Download : PeaceIT September 2009.pdf September 2009 issue of Peace IT!, produced by the ICT4Peace Foundation, Switzerland in cooperation with Crisis Management Institute, Finland. In this edition contributors highlight the importance of taking an ethical look at the prohibitive costs of mobile phone communications in the developing world,...
6th International Security Forum (ISF): Proceedings of the Conference
Published 27th May 2010 in Publications
Global Symposium +5 ‘Information for Humanitarian Action’ Outcomes
Published 27th May 2010 in Publications
«Le SMS, un vecteur important d’information en temps de crise»
Published 27th May 2010 in French, Publications
Good practices in participatory mapping – Review by IFAD
Published 27th May 2010 in Publications, Updates
MoU between L’Ecole de Maintien de la Paix (EMP) and ICT4Peace Foundation
Published 27th May 2010 in French, Publications
Haiti and beyond: Getting it right in Crisis Information Management
Published 27th May 2010 in Publications
The ICT4Peace Foundation released Haiti and beyond: Getting it right in Crisis Information Management in April 2010 - the first critique of a number of others since published since on the deployment of ICTs to help aid and relief efforts in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in January 2010. As noted in this succinct report, Much m...
