Mission
ICT4Peace is a policy and action-oriented international Foundation. The purpose is to save lives and protect human dignity through Information and Communication Technology. Since 2003 ICT4Peace explores and champions the use of ICTs and new media for peaceful purposes, including for peacebuilding, crisis management and humanitarian operations. Since 2007 ICT4Peace promotes cybersecurity and a peaceful cyberspace through inter alia international negotiations with governments, international organisations, companies and non-state actors.
The ICT4Peace project was launched with the support of the Swiss Government in 2003 with the publication of a book by the UN ICT Task Force on the practice and theory of ICT in the conflict cycle and peace building in 2005 and the approval of para 36 of the Tunis Commitment of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2005.
36. We value the potential of ICTs to promote peace and to prevent conflict which, inter alia, negatively affects achieving development goals. ICTs can be used for identifying conflict situations through early-warning systems preventing conflicts, promoting their peaceful resolution, supporting humanitarian action, including protection of civilians in armed conflicts, facilitating peacekeeping missions, and assisting post conflict peace-building and reconstruction.
ICT4Peace is inter alia working with
- UN Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination (EOSG)
- UN Office at Geneva
- Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT)
- UN DESA
- UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
- UN Department for Field Support (DFS)
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR)
- World Food Program (WFP)
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
- United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
- UN Global Pulse
- United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS)
- International Telecommunications Unions ITU)
- United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
- United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (UN GGE)
- African Union
- OSCE
- ASEAN
- Organisation of American States (OAS)
- Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC)
- Cairo Regional Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA)
- Crisis Management Initiative(CMI)
- World Economic Forum (WEF)
- World Internet Conference (WIC), Wuzhen, China
- China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
- Scientific Conference of the International Information Security Research Consortium, Moscow University
- MIT
- Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH), Zürich
- Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP). Geneva
- Geneva Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
- Kofi Annan Foundation, Geneva
- US Federal Government
- Russian Government
- Government of Peoples Republic of China
- German Federal Government
- UK Government
- Swiss Government
- Australian Government
- Government of New Zealand
- Government of Singapore, Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA)
- Government of Thailand
- Governments of CLMV (Cambodia,Laos,Myanmar and Vietnam) Countries
- Government of Kenya
- Microsoft