ICT4Peace Special Advisor Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa will speak on “THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TACKLING HATE SPEECH” at the forthcoming webinar on 23 May 2022 (1 to 2 pm EST or ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to publish this compilation of a series of short papers, articles, op-eds by Sanjana Hattotuwa, ICT4Peace Special Advisor, in the aftermath of the horrendous March 2019 Christchurch ...
Two years since the ChristchurchCall Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and President Emmanuel Macron hosted the global leaders to a virtual summit on May 15 2021. Glad the Christchurch Call Community Consultation final report ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is extremely honoured and pleased to feature a video message from Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, recorded for and sent to ‘New ...
Image courtesy Guardian As part of the New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of social media, Paul Ash, the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Cyber and Digital ...
Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, in conversation with Marvin Hubbard from OAR FM Dunedin, looking at the issues around social media, hate, peace and democracy in Aotearoa/New ...
Conceived of and curated by ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa, the New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of social media conference was held at the University of Otago, ...
ICT4Peace is very pleased to announce that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor ICT4Peace Foundation and PhD candidate at Otago University’s National Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (NCPACS) has co-launched and will lead ...
On 20 May 2019, Sanjana Hattotuwa, a Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation since 2006, gave a well-attended public lecture at the University of Zurich on the role, reach and ...
To support the launch of the UN SG Guterres’ Report on Digital Cooperation on 10 June 2019, ICT4peace submitted the following four questions addressed to the UN SG, Melinda Gates ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the organisers of Point 8.0 in Sarajevo to participate in a panel discussion anchored to Tech, Fear and Accountability, ...
The Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online In preparation of the Christchurch Call Meeting hosted by the Prime Minister RT Hon Jacinda Ardern in ...
Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual. A new paper by Regina Surber. Access it here. The ...
Almost exactly a year ago, Facebook was in the news in New Zealand over a row with Privacy Commissioner John Edwards. The heated public exchange between Edwards and the company ...
In the aftermath of the Christchurch Tragedy, on 18 March 2019, Swiss Radio conducted an Interview with Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace on the role of social media in the ...
Whether bound by country, city or community, the pulse of or, on Friday, the pain from a place like Christchurch can often be determined by the careful collection of social ...
Coming out of a long meeting, the first I heard of the violence in Christchurch was from those in Sri Lanka who had got breaking news alerts. I was both ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to present for the consideration of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation some insights, observations and recommendations based on over ten years of a close, ...
Please find the most recent report by the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (UN CTED) entitled “More support needed for smaller technology platforms to counter terrorist content”. It includes the ...
ICT4Peace was invited to participate in an Expert Group Meeting at the UN in Vienna on Lawful Access to Digital Data Across Borders on 12 and 13 February 2018. The ...
Invited by Cybertech Tel Aviv 2018, UN CTED of the UN Security Council and ICT4Peace presented the joint initiative Tech Against Terrorism in a high-level panel on 31 January 2018 ...
Two UN Security Council Resolutions of December 2017 recognised the work of the ICT4Peace Foundation in launching the Tech Against Terrorism initiative in cooperation with UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate ...
The Security Council has called for dialogue with major social media companies, in order to limit terrorists’ ability to recruit and operate online. To that end, last month saw the ...
The UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED) and ICT4Peace officially launched on 29 November 2017 the Tech Against Terrorism Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) at the UN Headquarters in New York. ...
ICT4Peace presenting on Peace and Cybersecurity in Cyberspace at Global Parlaments Meeting (IPU) in St. Petersburg ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) to present on ...
Tech Against Terrorism (a joint project between ICT4Peace and UN CTED and the Global Internet Forum on Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) organised on 18 September 2017 an outreach workshop with and ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited on 12 September 2107 by the International Association of Public Prosecutors 22nd Annual Meeting in Beijing to address senior most public prosecutors of over 170 ...
ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Royal Thai Government to chair a panel discussion of the “ISU Lecture on Cybersecurity: ‘Disruptive Technology – ...
ICT4Peace and UN CTED and their joint project Tech against Terrorism (see more on ICT4Peace’s work here) hosted on 1 August 2017 the U.S. launch of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UN CTED) through their TechagainstTerrorism.org Initiative are hosting the U.S. launch of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) in San Francisco, ...
ICT4Peace in association with Chatham House organised on 12 July 2017 a panel discussion on “Technology Against Terrorism – How to Respond to the Exploitation of the Internet” with distinguished ...
Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace, was invited to be speaker at Cyber Week 2017, which took place place in Tel Aviv from June 25th to June 29th. He participated in ...
ICT4Peace through Tech Against Terrorism, a joint project between UN CTED and ICT4Peace Foundation launched on 31 March 2017 at RightsCon in Brussels, and announced at OSCE in Vienna on ...
ICT4Peace, in cooperation with UN CTED will organise a panel discussion at Chatham House in London on 12 July 2017 on how to respond to the exploitation of the ...
ICT4Peace’s Adam Hadley and Daniel Stauffacher were invited to support the first Asia Dialogue on Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) and Counter Terrorism on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, co-hosted ...
ICT4Peace Foundation introduces the UN CTED-ICT4Peace Tech Against Terrorism Project at 2017 OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference On 23-24 May 2017 David Cliff and Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace were invited to participate ...
Adam Hadley and Daniel Stauffacher from ICT4Peace participated on 24 April 2017 in the 2017 International Forum and Scientific Conference of the International Information Security Research Consortium in Garmisch — ...
(BRUSSELS) A new initiative launches this week at RightsCon to help tech startups counter the use of technology to support terrorism. Tech Against Terrorism (www.techagainstterrorism.org), a joint project between The ...
ICT4Peace in cooperation with UN CTED and the Secdev Foundation co-hosted a conference on “Women, Technology & Partnerships – Countering Terrorist use of the Internet” in Ottawa, Canada. This event ...
On 23 February 2017, Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace, along with Steve Crown of Microsoft, Peter Stern of Facebook, Miguel Sanchez of Telefonica and Tara Hairston of Kaspersky, provided an update ...
On 31st January 2017, ICT4Peace was invited by the United Nations in Geneva and DCAF to discuss our continuing work with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UN CTED) regarding ...
On the occasion of the Special Meeting of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee held in New York on 1-2 December 2016, ICT4Peace and the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate ...
In the context of the Special meeting of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on Preventing the exploitation of information and communication technologies (ICT) for terrorist purposes, while respecting human rights ...
Outcome of Zurich Workshop available here. Since the late 1990s, and as global connectivity has increased and social networking sites have proliferated in multiple languages, certain groups have become more ...
ICT4Peace is proud to have been invited on 23 August 2016 by the 2016 Annual Conference of Swiss Ambassadors and foreign representations at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce the formal launch of its joint project with the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) on tech. sector engagement in responding to terrorist use of ...
Since the late 1990s, terrorist groups have become more sophisticated in their use of the internet and ICT. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, extremist groups came ...
ICT4Peace was invited by the UN New York to moderate on 16 December 2015 a technical panel discussion on Collaboration between the Public and Private Sector to promote safety and counter ...
The debates on the use of ICT by terrorists and the need to protect democracy are vexed and have no easy resolution. The definitions themselves are contested, as are the ...
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Sanjana Hattotuwa: The Nature of Disinformation and Nurture of Democratic Responses
ICT4Peace is delighted to have published this Compilation of a series of short papers, articles and op-eds by Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, ICT4Peace Special Advisor, in the aftermath of the horrendous March ...