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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...
Recording of Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICT...
Published 16th May 2010 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Reports, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
Click here to access the recording of Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs, a panel discussion held on 13 May 2010, organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation held at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) 2010. All the recordings from WSIS 2010 are available here. You will need RealPlayer to view these...
Recording of ICTs for Disaster Management High Level Panel discussion at WSIS 20...
Published 16th May 2010 in Events, Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
Click here to access the recording of ICTs for Disaster Management, a high level panel discussion at WSIS 2010 on 12 May 2010. The Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Daniel Stauffacher, was a member of this panel. His presentation begins at 1 hour 8 minutes into the panel discussion. All the recordings from WSIS 2010 are available here. ...
Recording of Live seminar on “ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communic...
Published 15th May 2010 in Events, Foundation in the media, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
Click here to access an MP3 recording of Sanjana Hattotuwa's submission to the web seminar ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?, organised by the Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum at Harvard University and held on 12 May 2010. Sanjana is a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation. ...
ICT4Peace Foundation enters into new agreement with Ushahidi to develop Crisis I...
Published 13th May 2010 in Events, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
On the occasion of 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, the ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to announce a new phase of support for the Ushahidi crisis information management p...
ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanit...
Published 10th May 2010 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, will be part of a august panel looking at ICTs and humanitarian aid. Titled ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?, the web discussion is organised by the Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum at Harvard University. Click here f...
ICT4Peace Workshop and High-Level Debate, WSIS FORUM 2010, 12-13 May, Geneva
Published 5th May 2010 in Events, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
WSIS FORUM 2010, UN WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY, 12-13 May 2010, GenevaThe ICT4Peace Foundation will host a workshop during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) FORUM 2010, entitled Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs.13 May 2010, 09:00-11:00, Room LGetting it Right in Crisis Management:...
Haiti and beyond: Getting it right in Crisis Information Management
Published 4th May 2010 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Foundation's Reports, Home_page_publications, Projects & Programmes, 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...
Partnership with Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Manage...
Published 2nd May 2010 in Events, Events, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
The ICT4Peace Foundation entered into a partnership with the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management Programme (MAS HLM) of the University of Lugano, Switzerland to develop and implement a training course on Crisis Information Management from 25 to 27 October 2010 in Lugano. The Master of Advanced Studies in ...
Published 24th March 2010 in Partner Content, Partners, Updates
Ahead of planned improvements this year, ReliefWeb is conducting a short survey to ensure that its future service is informed by the requirements of those engaged in humanitarian action worldwide. Please find below a link to a short 5-10 minute survey, which is intended for all who work in the humanitarian or a related sector, whether they cur...
9th Forum on New Technologies of Information & Communication Applied to Con...
Published 25th February 2010 in Events, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, will participate in the 9th Forum on New Technologies of Information & Communication applied to Conflict, from 2 − 3 June 2010 in Buenos Aires. Sanjana will present on the following: Technology for peacebuilding: The present and the future This presentation will explor...
What is ICT4Peace?: Article written for Strategic Foresight Group
Published 9th February 2010 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Foundation's Reports, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
"ICT4Peace is the belief, supported by a growing body of practitioners globally, that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) including mobile phones help in all aspects of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Much is made of ICTs exacerbating violent conflict and war, including the increasing threat of cyberwar, hate speech online and use...
ICT4State-Building: African Experiences and Opportunities
Published 22nd January 2010 in Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
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The use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is becoming more and more commonplace around the world and the spread of mobile phones, computers and the internet even to the remotest places of the world is evident. In addition to their intrinsic value, the ...
ICT4Peace Foundation featured in IRIN podcast on use of technology in January 20...
Published 22nd January 2010 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
UN OCHA’s IRIN news service has a podcast up that features key observations by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation on the use of technology / ICTs in Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake aid efforts. The direct link to the MP3 is here. The podcast also features the extremely insightful observations of Paul Currion...
Presentation at Lunch Seminar on ICT as tools for peace building, crisis managem...
Published 5th January 2010 in Events, Foundation's Press Releases, Projects & Programmes, Publications
ICT as tools for peace building, crisis management and disaster recovery
Published 14th December 2009 in Publications
The Role of Communications Technology During Natural Disasters and Conflicts
Published 10th December 2009 in Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
As natural disasters and civil conflicts increase worldwide, so too does access to new and lower cost technologies. The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership’s latest report, New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts, examines the evolving role communications technologies play before, during and afte...
Launch of Peace IT! September 2009
Published 24th September 2009 in Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
The September 2009 issue of Peace IT!, produced by the ICT4Peace Foundation, Switzerland in cooperation with Crisis Management Initiative, Finland, is available for immediate download here. In this edition contributors highlight the importance of taking an ethical look at the prohibitive costs of mobile phone communications in the developing ...
Ushahidi’s Goma release incorporates features from ICT4Peace Foundation’s cr...
Published 13th August 2009 in Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
Ushahidi’s launched a major new update to their platform called Goma. The ICT4Peace Foundation is very pleased to see key features in Ushahidi’s Goma release that had evolved directly from our Crisis Information Management prototype, including in particular a new feature to track veracity and trust of users by the admin and email and SMS...
New Media and Humanitarian Aid – Presentation at Kofi Annan Global Humanitaria...
Published 25th June 2009 in Events, Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Updates
At this year’s Kofi Annan Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation Daniel Stauffacher was invited to make a presentation on New Media and Humanitarian Aid on 23 June 2009 in a panel entitled New Media. He shared this panel with Nitin Desai, Member, Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, India and Spe...
Keynote Speech by Dr. Choi Soon-Hong, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Info...
Published 7th June 2009 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
Keynote Speech Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, 3 June 2009, Bonn, Germany Choi Soon-Hong, PhD, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer, The United Nations Mr. Bettermann, Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen.
I am very pleased to be invited to th...
ICT4Peace Chairman Daniel Stauffacher on Ushahidi and crowdsourcing crisis infor...
Published 5th June 2009 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
A brief soundbite from the Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation Daniel Stauffacher on Ushahidi and crowdsourcing crisis information management. The soundbite was recorded at the second DW Global Media Forum in Bonn, 3 - 5 June 2009. Ushahidi and ICT4Peace Foundation are collaborating to develop of Crisis Information Management Demonstrato...
Cyclone Nargis: Lessons and implications for ICTs in Humanitarian Aid
Published 20th April 2009 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Foundation's Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications
Update 1: Cyclone Nargis: Lessons and implications for ICTs in Humanitarian Aid
Published 20th April 2009 in Publications
Ushahidi and ICT4Peace Foundation collaborate to develop of Crisis Information M...
Published 5th March 2009 in Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
The ICT4Peace Foundation, Geneva has mandated Ushahidi to develop an ICT4Peace Crisis Information Management Platform Demonstrator (CIMD), based on Ushahidi’s existing platform with the following features and functionality. A product that is able to be deployed in the field with a minimum of fuss, on any browser, on mobile phones, over...
Interim Report: Stocktaking of UN Crisis Information Management Capabilities
Published 28th February 2009 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Foundation's Reports, Projects & Programmes, Publications, Updates
Nobel Lecture by Martti Ahtisaari, Oslo, 10 December 2008
Published 14th December 2008 in Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
President Martti Ahtisaari is the Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation Policy Advisory Board and an ardent champion of the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for peacebuilding and conflict transformation. The following is his speech when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 10 December 2008. The text is taken from h...
Gen. Martin L. Agwai, Force Commander of UNAMID with ICT4Peace Foundation and CC...
Published 12th December 2008 in Events, Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
From L-R:Juan Pekmez (ICT4Peace Foundation), Amb. Daniel Stauffacher (Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation), Gen. Martin L. Agwai (Force Commander, UNAMID), Amb. Soad Shalaby (CCCPA), Lt. Gen. Satish Nambiar (United Service Institution of India, New Delhi) and Alain Modoux (ICT4Peace Foundation) The ICT4Peace Foundation with the Cairo Regiona...
Call for papers: Improving ICT use in Crisis Management and Peacebuilding (ICT4P...
Published 12th October 2008 in Partner Content, Partners, Updates
Call for papers: Improving ICT use in Crisis Management and Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) for ISCRAM 2009 For more details and instructions on submissions, please click here. Inter-operability, and the meaningful use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in all aspects of crisis management and response, is about saving lives and re...
ICT4Peace enters into MoU with Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Ce...
Published 10th September 2008 in Events, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Publications
Information Sharing Models and Interoperability in National, Cross Border and In...
Published 26th August 2008 in Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Updates
Crisis Management Initiative has published a final report of a project aiming to improve the understanding of information sharing models and interoperability in national, cross-border and international crisis management. The project’s four case studies have been chosen to reflect four different types of crisis: natural disaster (Portuguese ...
Conference report of ‘Responsibility to the Future: Business, Peace, Sustainab...
Published 26th July 2008 in Events, Events, Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
Strategic Foresight Group is pleased to convene an action initiative on business, peace and sustainability. The fi rst step is to convene an international conference on Responsibility to the Future: Business, Peace, Sustainability in Mumbai, India, on 26-28 June 2008. It aims to bring together some of the leading intellectuals and innovators in ...
