2013 and ICT4Peace: Year in Review
Dear Colleagues, 2013 has again been an eventful year for the ICT4Peace Foundation, not only in its work helping the UN and the international community to improve crisis information management ...
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Crisis Information Management Training in Berlin
In August 2013, the Foundation announced a new course on Crisis Information Management that would be held in Berlin, Germany, looking at how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), new media ...
Social mobilization and conflict mediation online: Israel loves Iran
Image courtesy ABC News. The ICT4Peace Foundation was sent the following paper which we found extremely interesting, and with the permission of the author, is pleased to publish on our ...
Updates from Day 2, ICCM 2013, Nairobi
The second day of ICCM 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya began with a panel hosted and moderated by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation (read What’s so Big about Big ...
What’s so Big about Big Data? | Panel at ICCM 2013, Nairobi, Kenya
The ICT4Peace Foundation hosted and moderated a discussion on Big Data at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) 2013, held in Nairobi, Kenya from 20 – 22 November at ...
Telcos in emergencies: Using the mobile network to locate customers in distress
Duty of care argument for telcos? If customer in radius of emergency situation (via GSM), alert first responders, possibly family? #iccm Tweeted by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation ...
Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Publications, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Support to crisis mapping and ICCM