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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...
‘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...
«Le SMS, un vecteur important d’information en temps de crise»
Published 27th May 2010 in French, Publications
Why and When to Use the Media for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
Published 3rd April 2008 in Publications
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...
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...
We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information
Published 14th May 2007 in Publications
Using SMS to promote democracy, human rights and free and fair elections
Published 16th October 2007 in Partner Content, Updates
A conversation between Colin Rule (Director of ODR at eBay/PayPal) and Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS can be found here.
Ken's FrontlineSMS programme allows for new ways through which sensitive information can be disseminated in a timely manner in support of processes as wide ranging as health pandemics t...
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...
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...
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...
Update 1: Cyclone Nargis: Lessons and implications for ICTs in Humanitarian Aid
Published 20th April 2009 in Publications
Untying the Gordian Knot: ICT for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Published 11th May 2007 in Publications
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 ...
UN ICT Task Force Series 8: The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving ...
Published 1st October 2007 in Publications
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...
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...
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...
Training for Peace: The Governments of Egypt and Japan, and UNDP launch a projec...
Published 29th June 2008 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
Cairo, Wednesday 18 June 2008 – Today, the Cairo Regional Centre for Conflict Resolution and Peace-keeping in Africa (CCCPA) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch a project, funded by the Government of Japan, to strengthen the capacity of CCCPA as a regional and...
Towards a new cartography: Mapping a peace process using Information and Communi...
Published 16th September 2007 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Communication Initiative Network features the ICT4Peace Inventorisation Wiki
Published 30th June 2008 in Foundation in the media, Foundation's Press Releases, Partner Content, Partner Reports, Partners, Projects & Programmes, Updates
The ICT4Peace Foundation's ICT4Peace Wiki is now featured in the Communication Initiative's website .
The Benefits of Information Transparency in Humanitarian Mine Action
Published 11th May 2007 in Publications
Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics
Published 17th May 2007 in Publications
