Advisory ICT

ICT for crisis management and peacebuilding

26. May 2014

MONUSCO: Workshop on ICTs and new media for UN peacekeeping and peace-building

Improving Situational Awareness Workshop and Training at MONUSCO, Goma DRC, 13 – 16 May Improved situational awareness is critical to effective operations and informed decision-making to protect civilians, save lives ...

Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

24. May 2014

Eine Vision, die wahr geworden ist

ICT4Peace Foundation Board members Daniel Stauffacher and Alain Modoux published an article in the leading newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) containing a stocktaking and analysis on the occasion of the ...

Advisory ICT, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

17. April 2014

Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis: Presentation at ETH, Zurich

On March 28 2014, as part of the cooperation between the ICT4Peace Foundation and the ETH International Security Network (ISN), the ISN hosted a Roundtable Discussion on “Big Data, ICTs ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

17. April 2014

Humanitarian Drones: New magazine on FlipBoard

To complement the launch of the UAViators platform and network, the ICT4Peace Foundation started to curate a FlipBoard magazine on the use of UAVs and drones for non-lethal purposes, with ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Publications, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Strategic input into and participation in UAviators.net, Big data

17. April 2014

UAViators: Exploring the use of UAVs for non-lethal purposes

Photo credit: Pia Zaragoza, via UNICEF In March 2014, Patrick Meier invited the ICT4Peace Foundation to give input into what at the time was a draft note around creating a global ...

Capacity Building ICT, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, AI, LAWS, Converging Technologies and Peace Time Threats, Publications, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Strategic input into and participation in UAviators.net, Big data

16. April 2014

Don’t lose sight of the people behind big data: Article on Scidev.net

Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, writes to SciDev.net on the importance of maintaining a rights based perspective when dealing with and understanding ‘Big Data’. ### “These questions pose ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data