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Report of Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) Retreat 2013
Published 17th May 2013 in Publications, Updates
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 UNOSAT ...
Consultation on “Protection in violent situations – standards for managing s...
Published 27th April 2013 in Publications, Updates
Dutch Red Cross worker Meike Groen, working for the ICRC in Haiti, helps people use the satellite phone to reassure relatives that they are alive, via Flickr. © ICRC / Marko Kokic / ht-e-00459 / www.icrc.org ICRC and InterAction: Consultation on “Protection in violent situations – standards for managing sensitive information” ...
‘Humanitarianism in the Network Age’ by OCHA highlights shared inter...
Published 15th April 2013 in Events, Partner Content, Publications, Updates
The ICT4Peace Foundation recognises UN OCHA's new publication Humanitarianism in the Network Age as a significant contribution to our understanding of how new technologies including new web based social media, are reshaping our fundamental understanding as well as the design and delivery of humanitarian aid and relief work across the world,...
Bi-monthly update | March 2013
Published 4th April 2013 in Publications, Updates
Please click here for a bi-monthly recap of the Foundation’s activities.
Crisis in Mali | New ICT4Peace wiki launched
Published 23rd January 2013 in Publications, Updates, Wiki
The ICT4Peace Foundation carefully curates a collection of unique and widely acclaimed wikis geared towards the humanitarian aid community as well as media and policy makers. They feature vital information from government, the UN system in the disaster / crisis stricken area, other NGOs, the World Bank, comprehensive situation reports, mappi...
2012: Year in Review and Activity Report
Published 18th December 2012 in Home_page_publications, Publications, Updates
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 overal...
‘Jaw Jaw’ is better than ‘War War’: International Security in Cyberspace
Published 13th November 2012 in Publications, Updates
‘Jaw Jaw’ is better than ‘War War’: International Security in Cyberspace[1] by Paul Meyer[2] “Jaw Jaw is better than War War” is Winston Churchill’s famous maxim concerning the desirability of dialogue over destruction in the conduct of relations between states. As a great war-time leader, it was not that Churchill was a paci...
Bi-monthly update of ICT4Peace Foundation
Published 11th September 2012 in Events, Foundation in the media, Publications, Updates
Please click here for a bi-monthly recap of the Foundation's activities.
The first Web Index launched by Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation
Published 6th September 2012 in Events, featured, Partners, Publications, Updates
The World Wide Web Foundation on 5 September 2012 launched the first ever comprehensive Web Index – a new country-by-country global study that measures the impact of the Web on the world’s people and nations. The key findings can be found here. Web inventor and Web Foundation founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee hosted an event in London to ma...
Report on Information and Communications Technology for Peace
Published 28th August 2012 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.
ICT4Peace Foundation granted Special Consultative Status at the United Nations
Published 10th August 2012 in featured, Foundation in the media, Publications, Updates
We are pleased to recognise that the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on 27 July 2012 granted Special Consultative Status to the ICT4Peace Foundation. The Consultative status for an organization enables it to actively engage with ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, as well as with the United Nations Secretariat, programm...
ICT4Peace brief on upcoming Government Expert consultations on Cybersecurity (GG...
Published 5th August 2012 in Events, featured, Foundation in the media, Publications, Updates
With the UN General Assembly convening next week for the third time the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to address threats to international information security in the Disarmament and International Security Committee (also known as the First Committee), Dr. Eneken Tikk, Senior Advisor of the ICT4Peace Foundation prepared a brief on the w...
Op-ed in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ): Disarmament Negotiations for the Cyberspac...
Published 30th July 2012 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications, Updates
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 ...
Report on Crisis Information Management High Level Dialogue, 10 July 2012
Published 23rd July 2012 in Events, Events, Publications, Updates
Swiss Mission to the United Nations New York, 10 July 2012 Report on High-Level Dialogue with UN Member States on the status of the UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CiMS) using inter alia social media tools, crisis mapping and crowdsourcing After the successful two day retreat on 11 and 12 June 2012 of the UN Crisis Information...
Report of the Crisis Information Management CiMAG Retreat, 10–12 June 2012
Published 7th July 2012 in Events, Our People, Publications, Updates
The report of the Crisis Information Management CiMAG Retreat, held from 10–12 June 2012 at Dolce Palisades, New York is now available. Please download a copy of it here. Big themes that emerged during the day included the dual use of technologies and best to create guidance notes and progressive policies regarding this (e.g. Big Data ...
Information Management: Strengthening Information in Humanitarian Response
Published 4th July 2012 in Events, Publications, Updates
Sanjana Hattotuwa was invited by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the 3rd of July to deliver a presentation over Skype on how the field of crisis information management had changed in the last few years, as part of UNHCR's annual consultations with NGOs from around the world. Sanjana was asked by UNHCR to focus in particular ...
Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice | A Treatise on Technology and Di...
Published 27th June 2012 in Our People, Publications, Updates
Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice: A Treatise on Technology and Dispute Resolution, Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab (Author), Ethan Katsh (Author), Daniel Rainey (Author) Hardcover: 571 pages Publisher: Eleven International Publishing (January 1, 2012) Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, contributed Mob...
Risk and Crisis Communication and the new social media: Opportunities for intern...
Published 19th June 2012 in Events, featured, Publications, Updates
Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace participated on 29 June 2012 in the Policy round table Risk and Crisis Communication and the new social media: Opportunities for international cooperation. This Panel was part of the JOINT OECD/International Risk Governance Council (IGRC) EXPERT WORKSHOP on Risk and Crisis Communication: Opportunities and Challeng...
Informazione e nuove tecnologie: al servizio della pace
Published 17th May 2012 in Foundation in the media, Publications, Updates
An interview with Daniel Stauffacher by www.unimondo.org (OneWorld Italy) Available also here. Mappe interattive che segnalano focolai di violenza elaborate a partire da segnalazioni via sms e internet. Video educativi per prevenire l’insorgere di epidemie in territori dilaniati dalla guerra. Database aggiornati dagli utenti e combin...
Web Foundation Announces Publication of Accelerating Development Using the Web: ...
Published 17th May 2012 in Partner Content, Partners, Publications, Updates
George Sadowsky, the editor, along with Najeeb Al-Shorbaj, WHO, Torbjörn Fredriksson, UNCTAD, two of the fourteen authors and ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher, member of the Board of the World Wide Web Foundation, released at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva on 15 May the Web Foundation’s first major public...
The potential and challenges of open data for crisis information management and ...
Published 23rd March 2012 in featured, Publications, Updates
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to inform you about its most recent paper entitled The potential and challenges of open data for crisis information management and aid efficiency: A preliminary assessment. The authors, Daniel Stauffacher, Sanjana Hattotuwa and Barbara Weekes of the ICT4Peace Foundation, aim to explore both the strength...
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 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 bee...
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...
