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25. June 2025 Geneva

ICT4Peace co-organising the AI Soveregnity & AI Collaboration Event at Maison de La Paix

Advanced & Trustworthy AI Systems for the Benefit of Society - A networking event and panel discussion This event is organized by Swisscom and Swisscom Ventures together with the Swiss {ai} Weeks, ETH AI Center and EPFL AI Center, Geneva Graduate Institute,ICT4Peace Foundation and THE Port Humanitarian Hackathons at CERN.

ICT4Peace is pleased to co-organise the AI Sovereignty & AI Collaboration event on the topic of Advanced & Trustworthy AI Systems for the Benefit of Society on 7 July 2025 ...

Digital Sovereignty, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

26. May 2025

Participate in the WSIS + 20 High-Level Event (7-11 July 2025)

Geneva

As former Ambassador and Delegate of the Swiss Federal Council for the hosting of WSIS 2003 in Geneva in cooperation with the ITU I look forward to the WSIS + ...

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

16. April 2025 Marakesh

ICT4Peace at GITEX Africa 2025 in Marrakesh

Invited by the Embassy of Switzerland in Marocco, Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace presented the ICT4Peace work on The Responsibility of Private Cybersecurity Companies and the IT Industry at large.

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Activities, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security

1. April 2025 Digital Society Initiative, Eventroom Rämistrasse 69 Zürich, 8001 Schweiz

Presentation by ICT4Peace at University of Zurich – Beyond Compliance: Responsible Technology Use as a Competitive Advantage in Private Security and Beyond

Speech by Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace at Digital Society Initiative on 9 April 2025 @ 16:30 – 18:00. Digital Society Initiative, Eventroom Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zürich.

Want to ensure your organization uses technology responsibly and transforms potential risks into business opportunities? Then join us for a presentation by Anne-Marie Buzatu, the Executive Director of the ICT4Peace Foundation. Developed in collaboration with ...

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, Advisory

23. March 2025 Zurich

ICT4Peace presenting at GenAI 2025 in Zurich on: “Beyond Compliance: Responsible Technology Use of AI in Private Security and Beyond”

GenAI 2025 Conference on 1 April 2025 at Technopark Zurich

ICT4Peace is delighted to present on 1 April 2025 at GenAI 2025 at the Technopark Zurich. Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace, will speak on the topic: “Beyond Compliance: Responsible Technology ...

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security

15. February 2025

The Paris AI Action Summit: The cleavages over global governance made apparent

While the US and UK failed to endorse the Summit’s final statement, China did, no doubt with an eye to the future and playing a leading role on AI governance. By Amb. Paul Meyer, Senior Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation and Adjunct Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University

The Paris AI Summit: The cleavages over global governance made apparent While the US and UK failed to endorse the Summit’s final statement, China did, no doubt with an eye ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, Paris Peace Forum, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security

11. February 2025

Promoting Private Sector Toolkits for Responsible AI on the occasion of Paris Peace Forum and AI Action Summit

Use ICT4Peace Tool 7: Artificial Intelligence Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination

In November 2024 ICT4Peace launched the groundbreaking Toolkit: From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace prepared by Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4Peace, in cooperation with The International Code of ...

La Francophonie (OIF), ITU, Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, Council of Europe (CoE), Paris Peace Forum, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, Advisory

8. January 2025

HUDERIA: New tool to assess the impact of AI systems on human rights

A new Council of Europe tool that provides guidance to carry out risk and impact assessments for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, approved by the CoE Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Strasbourg on 28 November 2024.

HUDERIA: New tool to assess the impact of AI systems on human rights ICT4Peace welcomes the new Council of Europe tool that provides guidance to carry out risk and impact ...

Council of Europe (CoE), AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, Capacity Building CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research

24. December 2024

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa’s article: “We are engaged in a world war of stories – a war between incompatible versions of reality – and we need to learn how to fight it.” Salman Rushdie, Knife

Article by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace for the The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

“We are engaged in a world war of stories – a war between incompatible versions of reality – and we need to learn how to fight it.” Salman Rushdie, Knife ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, IFRC, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In

2. October 2024

Congratulations to the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) on its 20th Anniversary.

Note on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Zurich Film Festival (3.10 - 14.10. 2024)

ICT4Peace congratulates the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) for its 20th Anniversary and is grateful to have been its partner for many years. We at ICT4Peace believe that Cinema has the ...

Zurich Hub for Ethics, Technology and Society (ZHET), AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Big data

1. June 2024

Les “Techs” Civiques Francophones: Un acteur du Développement et de la Promotion des Droits Humains.

Event at HEID as part of WSIS+20 organised by the Organisation Internationale de La Francophonie and ICT4Peace on 30 Mai 2024 at 18:15

Highly relevant and successful “Techs” Civics Francophones presented their projects on 30 Mai 2024 at HEID Geneva, an event organised by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie OIF and ICT4peace. ...

Support to L'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), La Francophonie (OIF), Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, Policy Research ICT, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

26. May 2024

Digital Distortions: Marie-Astrid Langer of NZZ on reporting technology, and life in Silicon Valley

ICT4Peace Podcast with award-winning Journalist Marie-Astrid Langer, US Correspondent of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)

The ICT4Peace Foundation is delighted to release the third episode of Digital Distortions, a podcast series looking at the role, reach, and relevance of disinformation, and truth decay in contemporary ...

Digital Distortions, ICT4Peace Podcasts, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech

2. April 2024

Digital Distortions: Karsten Donnay on politics, technology, and negotiating complexity

The ICT4Peace Foundation is delighted to release the second episode of Digital Distortions, a podcast series looking at the role, reach, and relevance of disinformation, and truth decay in contemporary ...

Digital Distortions, ICT4Peace Podcasts, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities

22. March 2024 Online

Critical Infrastructure Protection, AI and IHL – ICT4Peace cooperation with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Online Capacity Building Course with Policy Makers and Cyber Diplomats from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Executive Director and Professor Przemek Roguski taught at the online Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Course for CLV Countries from 19 to 21 March 2024. This course was ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Capacity Building ICT, ASEAN, Capacity Building CS, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building, ICT4Peace Support to UN OEWG and UN GGE, including Programme of Action PoA, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

10. February 2024

Digital Distortions: Eoghan Sweeney on open source investigations & truth decay

The ICT4Peace Foundation is delighted to release the first episode of Digital Distortions, a podcast series looking at the role, reach, and relevance of disinformation, and truth decay in contemporary ...

ICT4Peace Podcasts, Digital Distortions, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech

14. January 2024

ICT4Peace reflecting on 2023 and outlook 2024

Poised at the beginning of 2024, we at ICT4Peace reflect on 2023 as a year marked by significant geopolitical shifts and ongoing challenges in cyberspace governance and digital diplomacy. The ...

ICT4Peace Academy, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Support to L'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, End of Year Review

2. December 2023

Geneva Peace Week meets New York

Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Exeutive Director participated in a panel on "Harnessing Technologies to Build a Better Future" at IPI in New York

Listen to the recording of the great panel at the Geneva Peace Week meets New York Event at IPI with inter alia Anne-Marie Buzatu Buzatu, Executive Director, ICT4peace on: “Harnessing ...

Women's Peace and Security in the Digital Age, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Cybersecurity High-Level Policy Briefings, ICT4Peace Support to UN OEWG and UN GGE, including Programme of Action PoA, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

6. May 2023

“World Press Freedom Day” – Africa’s contribution to the edifice of human rights”

By Alain MODOUX, former UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace , and Vice-Chair Emeritus ICT4Peace Foundation

Alain MODOUX played a pivotal role in steering the process which led the United Nations General Assembly to proclaim 3 May “World Press Freedom Day”. See also article by UNESCO. ...

United Nations General Assembly, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

9. March 2023

Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Gender and Human Rights in National-level Approaches to Cybersecurity

A project by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) with the support of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Gender and Human Rights in National-level Approaches to Cybersecurity A project by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) ...

Women's Peace and Security in the Digital Age, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, Policy Research CS, Cybersecurity High-Level Policy Briefings, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building, ICT4Peace Support to UN OEWG and UN GGE, including Programme of Action PoA

17. February 2023

ICT4Peace and Ethics, Technology and Society at ETH Zurich: Prof. Margarita Boenig- Liptsin and Prof. Nadia Mazouz appointed

Launch events by the new Professorship for Ethics, Technology and Society at ETH Zurich

ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) were delighted to participate in two inaugural Conferences on Digital Democracy and Ethics in Technological Societies at ETH by the newly ...

Zurich Hub for Ethics, Technology and Society (ZHET), AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

1. February 2023

Responsibly mining the “New Gold”

Article by Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director of ICT4Peace, published in The Geneva Policy Outlook

Digital Data is the gold of the 21st century. It is nearly impossible to browse a website, write an email, or use a mobile app without generating copious amounts of ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

22. December 2022

ICT4Peace 2022 End of Year Reflections

ICT4Peace 2022 End of Year Reflections The war in Ukraine was the paramount event of the past year. It defined international relations and will dominate annual reviews as well. It ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, End of Year Review

12. December 2022

Brown Bag Episode : Elina Noor

ICT4Peace is delighted to release Episode 7 of Brown Bag, the ICT4Peace podcast series on social media, politics, democracy and society from a Global South perspective, hosted and produced by ...

ICT4Peace Podcasts, ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities

4. December 2022 Geneva, Switzerland

Groundbreaking ICT4Peace Mapping Study on the Use of ICTs in Security Services provided by Private Commercial Actors

"From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace - A Mapping Study on the Use of ICTs in Security Services provided by Private Commercial Actors". With the generous support of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affair’s Peace and Security Division

Groundbreaking ICT4Peace Study: From Boots on the Ground to Bytes in Cyberspace: Mapping Study on the use of ICTs in private security services by commercial actors by Anne-Marie Buzatu, ICT4Peace Executive ...

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, Publications

15. November 2022

GIZ – ICT4Peace Academy Three Day Course on Misinformation and Social Media

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

GIZ – ICT4Peace Academy Three Day Course on Misinformation and Social Media for GIZ staff. (November 2022)

ICT4Peace Academy, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Capacity Building CS, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building

6. November 2022

ICT4Peace active supporter, co-organizer and participant at Geneva Peace Week

ICT4Peace is a member of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP) (@GPPlatform) Advisory Board, the Cyber Mediation Network (@cybermediat_net) and a supporter of the Geneva Peace Week (@genevapeaceweek).

ICT4Peace has been an active supporter, co-organiser and participant at the recent Geneva Peace Week (31 October – 4 November 2022). Anne-Marie Buzatu organised an participated in the following events ...

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, Women's Peace and Security in the Digital Age, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research CS, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

30. October 2022

On the occasion of Geneva Peace Week: Podcast conversation with Anne-Marie Buzatu on Digital Spaces: Risk and Opportunities for Peace

A podcast by Jackie Dalton of Fondation Hirondelle

A Podcast conversation with Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice President and COO of ICT4Peace on Digital Spaces: Risk and Opportunities for Peace. How can digital spaces be used to contribute to a ...

Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building, ICT4Peace Support to UN OEWG and UN GGE, including Programme of Action PoA, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

26. October 2022

Anne-Marie Buzatu participating in Geneva Peace Week High-Level Panel on How to leverage technology for human-centered peacebuilding

Beyond the digital: How to leverage technology for human-centered peacebuilding. Wednesday 2 November 2022 13:30 - 14:45

Anne-Marie Buzatu, Vice-President of ICT4Peace will participate in the in-person High Level Panel on the track “Digital peace: The power and limits of innovation in peacebuilding”: Beyond the digital: How to ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

23. October 2022

Brown Bag Episode 6: Sarah Oh

ICT4Peace is delighted to release Episode 6 of Brown Bag, the ICT4Peace podcast series on social media, politics, democracy and society from a Global South perspective, hosted and produced by ...

ICT4Peace Podcasts, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities

10. October 2022

ICRC – ICT4Peace Academy Three Days Course on Mis-, Disinformation and Hate Speech

ICRC ICT4Peace Academy Three Days Course on Mis-, Disinformation and Hate Speech for ICRC staff (October 2022).

ICT4Peace Academy, ICRC, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Capacity Building CS, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building

9. October 2022

Brown Bag Episode 5: Victoire Rio

ICT4Peace is delighted to release Episode 5 of Brown Bag, the ICT4Peace podcast series on social media, politics, democracy and society from a Global South perspective, hosted and produced by ...

ICT4Peace Podcasts, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet

7. October 2022

Disinformation’s Dark Designs

ICT4Peace Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa describes the challenge we face from the effects of disinformation in undermining our trust in democracy. “Gradually, then suddenly.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities

14. August 2022

Brown Bag Episode 2: Meenakshi Ganguli, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch

ICT4Peace is delighted to release Episode 2 of Brown Bag, the ICT4Peace podcast series on social media, politics, democracy and society from a Global South perspective, hosted and produced by ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, ICT4Peace Podcasts, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Foundation, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

23. June 2022

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Social Media: Sanjana Hattotuwa in conversation with Elina Noor

In this episode, Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation and Research Fellow at The Disinformation Project based in Aotearoa New Zealand, speaks with Elina Noor, on asking better ...

ICT4Peace Podcasts, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities

19. April 2022

The institutionalisation of fear: Global digital surveillance with dubious pandemic legitimacy

Article in Open Access Government by Regina Surber, PhD Candidate at the University of Zurich and Scientific Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, discusses how digital surveillance is increasing worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Photo by © jurgen-jester-unsplash)

The institutionalisation of fear: Global digital surveillance with dubious pandemic legitimacy Article by Regina Surber, Scientific Advisor of ICT4Peace in Open Access Government. Governments around the globe are justifying ever ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, Responsible use of ICTs by Private Sector Companies including Private Cybersecurity Services Companies, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, ICT4Peace in the Media, Policy Research CS, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Big data, ICT4Peace Support to UN OEWG and UN GGE, including Programme of Action PoA

26. March 2022

ICT4Peace Publication: A Compilation of Articles, Policy briefs, Op-eds on AI, LAWS and Ethical and Political Perspectives on Emerging Digital Technologies

ICT4Peace and ZHET Publication by Regina Surber (Author) and Daniel Stauffacher (Editor)

ICT4Peace, in cooperation with the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), is pleased to publish this compilation of policy briefs op-eds and recorded talks (2017 – 2022) by Regina ...

Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Activities, Policy Research CS, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Big data

16. February 2022

Tech4Trust Geneva – Panel on Metaverse

Moderated by Jean-Marc Rickli (GCSP) with Anne-Marie Buzatu (ICT4Peace), Caecilia Charbonnier, Dreamscape Immersive and Prof. Sylvain Métille, UNIL

15. February 2022

ICRC – ICT4Peace Academy Three Days Training Course on Mis-, Disinformation and Hate Speech

Three days Training Course on Mis-,Disinformation and Hate Speech for ICRC staff members (February 2022)

ICT4Peace Academy, ICRC, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building

7. December 2021

Unfolding threat landscape: Presentation to Convening Series on Countering Disinformation

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to speak at a workshop series hosted by Oak Foundation and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and convened by Reos ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research CS, Policy Research, Advisory

30. November 2021

Beyond Pegasus Improving Transparency Rights Protection and Accountability in the Surveillance Tech Space

Anne-Marie Buzatu participating in the Panel Discussion at the Freedom Online Conference on 30 November 2021

10. November 2021

Working Paper by Te Pūnaha Matatini: Misinformation and disinformation in New Zealand

ICT4Peace Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa is also a Research Fellow at Te Pūnaha Matatini, University of Auckland. In this capacity, he works with Kate Hannah who leads The Disinformation Project. ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research, Publications

9. September 2021

Sanjana Hattotuwa: The Nature of Disinformation and Nurture of Democratic Responses

ICT4Peace Publication on Reflections, Research and Writings on Aotearoa New Zealands's Christchurch Massacre

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 ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Policy Research CS, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, Foundation, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Tech against terrorism

19. August 2021

The nature of disinformation & nurture of democratic responses: Writing & output on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Christchurch Massacre

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 ...

ICT4Peace Commentary, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Advisory CS, Policy Research CS, Policy Research, Advisory, Publications, Foundation, Tech against terrorism

6. July 2021

Addressing the Infodemic

Meaningful policymaking to fight the swelling seed, spread and supremacy of misinformation benefits from data and evidence alive to socio-political realities. A new report from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Classification Office ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, Policy Research, Advisory, Publications, Foundation, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection

18. June 2021

Bi-monthly update: Cyber diplomacy, cyber war, social media and democracy

Read the Foundation’s bi-monthly update of projects, strategic input, conferences, papers, interviews and other activities here.

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Policy Research, Advisory, Capacity Building, Bi-Monthly Updates, Foundation

25. May 2021

Online dialogue on “Peace and Technologies: Current Debates and Future Horizons”

The early promise of peace technologies or technologies that can aid in the solving of conflicts has matured into questions of practical application for the technology and its development. Simultaneously, ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Foundation, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

22. May 2021

ICT4Peace and the Christchurch Call Summit

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 ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research CS, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, Tech against terrorism

2. May 2021

The New EU Legislation on Artificial Intelligence: A Primer

by Prof. Thomas Burri and Dr. Fredrik von Bothmer

In this primer Prof. Thomas Burri and Dr. Fredrick von Bothmer 1) discuss the EU Commission’s proposal of 21 April 2021 of new Union legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) ...

7. April 2021

Message from New Zealand PM Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern to conference on Social Media and Democracy

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 ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research, Advisory, Foundation, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, Tech against terrorism

7. April 2021

Video of session: Information disorder & conflict – The humanitarian dimension

What are “information disorders”? What impact do they have on conflict and other situations of violence? And how can humanitarians better understand them and mitigate their negative effects? Special Advisor ...

Policy Research ICT, Activities, Advisory ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Foundation, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

29. March 2021

The Christchurch massacre and social media: Lessons learnt and unlearnt

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 ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research, Foundation, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Tech against terrorism

25. March 2021

Digital Dilemmas Debate: Information disorder and conflict – the humanitarian dimension

31 March 2021 at 2pm – 3.15pm CET: Digital Dilemmas Debate #3: Information disorder and conflict – the humanitarian dimension What are “information disorders”? What impact do they have on ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

23. March 2021

Democracy in the age of social media: Podcast of radio interview by OAR FM Dunedin

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 ...

ICT4Peace in the Media, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Tech against terrorism

23. March 2021

New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of social media | Path-breaking conference in New Zealand

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, ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Tech against terrorism

6. October 2020

Sanjana Hattotuwa’s Conversation with New Zealand’s Classification Office on social media

Podcast featuring Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation, in conversation with New Zealand’s Classification Office, on the role of social media platforms both in terms of promoting incendiary content ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

5. August 2020

Groupthink: Are we collectively ruining democracy?

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by Transparency International New Zealand to lead a conversation on Groupthink as part of the Leadership Week of Victoria University, ...

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12. July 2020

Facebook Reform Must Be Seen as a Global Matter

This article first appeared on Techonomy. ### Facebook is a company that responds to pressure, and to lawsuits, but we in the Global South, at least as much affected by ...

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21. June 2020

Post-pandemic peace operations

Cross-posted from the TechPops website, curated by Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Berlin, where Sanjana Hattotuwa – Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation – was one of just 100 ...

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17. June 2020

Report of the UN Secretary General: Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

ICT4Peace welcomes the release of Report of the UN Secretary General: Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 2020. “Digital technology does not exist in a vacuum – it has enormous potential for ...

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30. April 2020

Post-Coronavirus: Towards pandemic panopticons or something radically new?

On the invitation of Christina Goodness, Chief Information Management Officer at the Departments of Peacebuilding, Political and Peace Operations DPPA-DPO, the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Sanjana Hattotuwa gave a presentation titled ‘Beyond ...

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14. April 2020

Peacebuilding in the time of a pandemic: What lies ahead?

A conversation with Helena Puig Larauri of Build Up and Sanjana Hattotuwa from ICT4Peace

On 14 April 2020, Sanjana Hattotuwa, an Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation had a conversation with Helena Puig Larauri, Co-founder and Director at Build Up over Skype, on issues anchored ...

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8. April 2020

ICT4Peace Blogpost: When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19

By Anne-Marie Buzatu, Senior Advisor ICT4Peace

When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19 By Anne-Marie Buzatu[1] In these uncertain Covid-19 times, most of us have been scrambling to ...

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4. April 2020

CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE?

Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear.

CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE? Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear. As a follow-up to the key note speech by Regina Surber ...

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1. April 2020

Regina Surber on Corona, Technology and Human Rights

An audio recording of her presentation.

Regina Surber, Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) delivered the keynote speech at the #SwissCognitive and @AICapitalCO virtual conference entitled “Corona, Technology and Human Rights”. Regina provided ...

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17. March 2020

First Twitter research partnership in New Zealand on countering polarisation, hate and violence

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 ...

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26. February 2020

Digital security, strategic communications and social media workshops in Afghanistan

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, has since 2014 conducted workshops in Afghanistan anchored to digital security, social media strategy, strategic communications. Workshops have been anchored to the ...

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25. February 2020

UN Report on Digital Cooperation: ICT4Peace Contribution to UN Discussion on Global Principled and Inclusive Artificial Intelligence Governance

As part of the UN Secretary General’s Digital Cooperation Recommendations Follow-Up Process, to which ICT4Peace has contributed the following Reflections and Recommendations , ICT4Peace has been invited to participate as one ...

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20. January 2020

ICT4Peace and WEF Global Shapers Meeting in Zurich: Building an Inclusive and Principled AI Governance

Along with Dr. Christian B. Westermann, Leader Data & Analytics and Partner at PwC Switzerland, Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, President, ICT4Peace and Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) ...

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20. December 2019

2019: End of year review

ICT4Peace has had quite a year! Over the course of 2019, the breadth and complexity of our work can be gleaned through the more than 80 blog posts as well ...

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19. December 2019

The role of social media in elections: Comparative cases and discussion

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Senior Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) to deliver a presentation on the role, reach and relevance of social media in Sri ...

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7. December 2019

ICT4Peace supports Zurich Human Rights Film Festival: Truth Detectives

ICT4Peace is proud to have been working with the Zurich Human Rights Film Festival since its beginning. This year, thanks to the Corymbo Foundation of Annette Ringier, ICT4Peace is supporting ...

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23. October 2019

New policy paper by foraus: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Kohler, Pascal Oberholzer and Nicolas Zahn of the Swiss Think Tank foraus published the policy paper: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence The executive summary of the paper notes: “Artificial ...

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5. October 2019

Speaking truth in a post-truth world | Public presentation at Zurich Film Festival 2019

As part of the #SpeakingTheTruth series of films supported by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) at the 2019 Zurich Film Festival, Sanjana Hattotuwa ...

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5. October 2019

Input into Expert Dialogue on Technology and Peace Operations, Berlin

The ICT4Peace Foundation was invited participate in and present at the ‘Expert Dialogue on Technology and Peace Operations’ organised by the Centre for International Peace Operations in Berlin, from 1-2 ...

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23. September 2019

#SpeakingTheTruth at Zurich Film Festival: Q&A after screening of ‘Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World’

As part of the #SpeakingTheTruth series, the Foundation will host a Q&A session after the screening of ‘Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World‘, a film by Hans Pool, on 5th ...

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23. September 2019

ICT4Peace input to Christchurch Call for Action by PM Jacinda Ardern at UN GA New York

ICT4Peace is honored to have been in invited by the New Zealand Government to join The Christchurch Call Advisory Network. In addition to other input, the Foundation will help prepare ...

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19. September 2019

#SpeakingTheTruth: Public lecture at Zurich Film Festival 2019

Supported by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), the Zurich Film Festival 2019 will feature a number of films capturing the documentation of and ...

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19. September 2019

“We must confront what we fear”: Responding to terrorism on social media

At a time when social media is under scrutiny for its role in tragedies like the Christchurch mosque shootings, governments must avoid knee-jerk reactions, writes ICT4Peace Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa. ...

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19. September 2019

The terrain of technology and governance: ETH lecture in 2019

For the third consecutive year, ICT4Peace was invited to lecture as part of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Governance and Administration Course conducted by the Swiss School of Public Governance ...

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1. July 2019

ICT4Peace supports Geneva Consultations on the report of UN HLP on Digital Cooperation

On Monday 24 June 2019, Anne-Marie Buzatu Senior Advisor for ICT4Peace attended the event Unpacking the High-Level Panel’s Report: Contributions from Geneva hosted by the Geneva Internet Platform, in conjunction with ...

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19. June 2019

United Nations – Welcoming the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech

Image courtesy Vice The ICT4Peace Foundation congratulates the Secretary-General of the UN on the launch of the UN strategy and plan of action on hate speech. The Foundation’s research into ...

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17. June 2019

Full video & slidedeck of lecture: From Christchurch to Sri Lanka – The curious case of social media

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 ...

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13. June 2019

National Dialogue limits in the age of digital media: ‘New dialogic processes’

Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, joined the 2019 National Dialogues Conference via Skype video on 12 June to both present a short overview of the state-of-play and ...

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10. June 2019

UN Digital Cooperation – Questions to SG Guterres, Melinda Gates and Jack Ma

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 ...

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22. May 2019

Tech, Fear and Accountability | Panel discussion at Point 8.0 in Sarajevo

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, ...

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20. May 2019

ICT4Peace was invited by RT Hon Jacinda Ardern to discuss “Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online“

ICT4Peace is honoured that Daniel Stauffacher, Founding President of ICT4Peace has been invited, along with other members of civil society, by the Prime Minister RT Hon Jacinda Ardern to participate in the ...

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14. May 2019

ICT4Peace input to Christchurch Call meeting in Paris

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 ...

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9. May 2019 Switzerland

INVITATION TO A PUBLIC LECTURE: From Christchurch to Sri Lanka – The curious case of social media

Interactive Lecture by Mr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace, TED Fellow Alum

«From the burning of the Notre Dame in Paris to heinous terrorism in Sri Lanka and Christchurch, social media inextricably is entwined with how billions see or engage with the ...

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7. May 2019

ICT4Peace in NZZ: Auslagerung des Grundrechtsschutzes von der Politik auf Firmen

Article in NZZ: Are governments outsourcing protection of fundamental rights to companies ?

On 24 April 2019 Regina Surber published an op-ed in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ): “Auslagerung des Grundrechtsschutzes von der Politik auf Firmen” (Are governments outsourcing protection of fundamental rights to ...

7. May 2019

ICT4Peace at Milano Human Rights Film Festival on “Technology Off-Limits”

Together with Professor Maria Chiara Carrozza, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) participated in a Panel on „Technology off Limits” at the Human Rights ...

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3. May 2019

Regina Surber participating in Panel on AI and Civilian, Transdisciplinary and International Perspectives during UN CCW/GGE

During the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts Meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva, 25-29 March 2019, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics ...

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29. April 2019

New ICT4Peace Paper : Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual

New ICT4Peace Paper: Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual ICT4Peace is pleased to announce the publication of ...

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27. April 2019

Does blocking social media help in the wake of a terrorist attack?

On Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by devasting terrorist attacks across the country, claimed by ISIS some days later. The attacks killed over 250, and injured many hundreds more. ...

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16. April 2019

When a law is not the answer

Wonderful news said all the Sri Lankans. But why Queensland, all the Australians asked. Fifteen years ago, a Rotary World Peace Fellowship award offered seven universities around the world to ...

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3. April 2019

Radio interview with Daniel Stauffacher on the Christchurch Tragedy

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 ...

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21. March 2019

Pulse points

A Social Media Analysis of the Christchurch Massacre

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 ...

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21. March 2019

Terrorists know they have the upper hand on social media

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 ...

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17. March 2019

ICT4Peace at OAS Meeting in Oxford: Urgent Need to address the Digital Security Divide

ICTPeace was invited by the Organization of American States (OAS) to participate in a Workshop with Parliamentarians from the OAS on (27-28 February 2019) on Cybersecurity and Strengthening Democratic Processes ...

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12. February 2019

Implications of Social Media for Reformed Peace Operations: ICT4Peace Presentation to UN Leadership Group

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF) to give a presentation on the impact of social media around political ...

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21. January 2019

High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation: Reflections and Recommendations from the ICT4Peace Foundation

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, ...

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10. January 2019

The cost of digital peace: Reflections for 2019

2018 served to acutely remind us of the essential fragility of that initial idea the pioneers of the Internet had around bringing humanity together by connecting them. From the start ...

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19. December 2018

ICT4Peace at the ICRC Symposium on Digital Risks in Situations of Armed Conflict in London

Dr. Serge Droz and Daniel Stauffacher participated in the ICRC Symposium on Digital Risks in Situations of Armed Conflict on 11 & 12 December. The program, “Digital Risks in Situations of Armed ...

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13. December 2018

Human rights: 70 Years On

ICTs and Human Rights Chaired by a woman, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Committee at the United Nations tasked with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) finished its work in ...

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2. December 2018

ICT4Peace at the Human Rights Film Festival in Zurich

The ICT4Peace Foundation partners with the Human Rights Film Festival and presents the renowed and very important documentary “The Cleaners”: When you post something on the web, can you be ...

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14. November 2018

ICT4Peace at Technonomy 2018: Can Facebook recover?

Representing ICT4Peace, Sanjana Hattotuwa participated in a panel discussion at Techonomy 2018 held in Half Moon Bay, San Francisco, on 13th November 2018. Titled ‘Can Facebook recover’, the panel’s description ...

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14. November 2018

Impact of social media in elections: A policy brief

ICT4Peace is pleased that Special Advisor Sanjana Hattottuwa has published Policy Brief by Toda Peace Institute and the Alliance for Peacebuilding on social media and violence during elections, anchored to ...

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7. November 2018

ICT4Peace at Techonomy 2018: Role, reach & relevance of Facebook

The ICT4Peace Foundation is very pleased to announce its participation at Techonomy 2018. The Foundation’s Special Advisor, Sanjana Hattotuwa, was recently featured by Techonomy Curator, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, David Kirkpatrick ...

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12. October 2018

Ron Deibert from Citizen Lab on ‘Three Uncomfortable Truths about Social Media’ at the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF)

ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology, sponsors of the new section Hashtag # Big data at the Zurich Film Festival, have organised on 6 October 2018 a ...

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9. October 2018

ICT4Peace in Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ demands an urgent public debate and regulatory engagement regarding artificial intelligence by the Swiss people and authorities

Regina Surber and Daniel Stauffacher published the following guest commentary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on 19 September 2018. Regina Surber is a Scientific Advisor to ICT4Peace and the ...

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6. October 2018

Welcoming UN Secretary General’s strategy on new technologies

As noted on Twitter, the ICT4Peace Foundation welcomes the release of the report on new technologies by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The report outlines a bold new vision for the ...

Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Capacity Building ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, 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

3. October 2018

Ron Deibert at the 14th Zurich Film Festival: Talk on “New Media, AI and how it affects our lives“

The ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) are proud partners of the #BigData section of the 14th Zurich Film Festival. In this context, the foundation has organised a talk, which ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, ICT4Peace in the Media, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Big data, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

26. September 2018

Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’: Recording of public lecture

On 21 September 2018, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation, delivered a lecture on Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’ to a packed room in Vischer AG in Zurich, Switzerland. ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Big data, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

Artificial Intelligence, Fake News, AI, Misinformation

25. September 2018

ICT4Peace at Facebook Integrity, Safety, and Conflict Roundtable

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to be part of the Integrity, Safety, and Conflict Roundtable held at Facebook’s HQ in Menlo Park, from 17-18 September 2018. ...

Advisory ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Advisory CS, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

15. September 2018

The terrain of technology and governance: ETH lecture

For the second consecutive year, ICT4Peace’s Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher were invited to lecture as part of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Governance and Administration Course conducted by ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Capacity Building CS, Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

14. September 2018

Public talk on AI and fake news: Peeking into the rabbit hole

Speaker: Sanjana Hattotuwa Event details 21 September 2018, 11:30 – 13:30 Vischer AG Schützengasse 1 8001 Zürich For further information or registration please contact: annahofmann@ict4peace.org The term fake news increasingly frames our ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Foundation, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

26. July 2018

Understanding and Countering Disinformation, Online Falsehoods and Fake News

The Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) organised a workshop on Understanding and Countering Disinformation, Online ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, Policy Research ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Publications, Reports, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, Big data, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

10. July 2018

The Janus Effect: Social Media in Peace Mediation

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, presented at “Social Media and Mediation: the good, the bad and the ugly”, a workshop held in Geneva on 10 July 2018, ...

Policy Research ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

4. May 2018

Bots Before the Ballot: Twitter’s big problems in South and South East Asia

### Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa’s research in Sri Lanka is quoted in a new Time magazine exposé on the scale and scope of Twitter bot problem ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Reports, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In, Constitution building and institutional strengthening post-war/post-conflict, Big data

6. March 2018

Workshop on Crisis Information Management at the United Nations

Download the 2017/2018 UN Crisis Information Management stock-taking report here. On 26 February 2018, the ICT4Peace Foundation facilitated a meeting with key UN agencies and departments at the UN Secretariat ...

Policy Research ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

23. December 2017

In conversation with Ron Deibert: Cybersecurity, privacy, ethics and using technology for good

As noted on its website, since 2015, the Human Rights Film Festival Zurich takes place each year on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights on 10 December. ...

Policy Research ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

21. November 2017

Mentoring online CVE initiatives in the Balkans

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, has since earlier this year, and at the invitation of the compelling Resonant Voices Initiative (RVI), engaged with civil society and other stakeholders, including ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, Capacity Building CS, Reports, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection

30. September 2017

Cybersecurity and humanitarianism: Opportunities and challenges

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to attend Crisis Code: Humanitarian Protection in the Digital Age, a two-day conference exploring how crisis-affected populations can be safeguarded ...

Policy Research ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, Policy Research, Advisory, 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, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In, ICT4Peace Support to UN OEWG and UN GGE, including Programme of Action PoA, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

17. September 2017

ICT4Peace teaching at ETH Zurich Swiss School of Public Governance

ICT4Peace’s Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher were invited in September 2017 to lecture at the ETH Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Governance and Administration Course, of the Swiss School ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Capacity Building CS, Capacity Building, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

5. August 2017

Workshop on Digital Investigative Journalism in Nepal

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the Centre for Investigative Journalism Nepal to support a workshop for leading journalists from around the country in the ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Advisory, Capacity Building, Foundation, 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

2. July 2017

ICT4Peace at Cyberweek 2017 – Tel Aviv: Peace and Security Cooperation in Cyberspace

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 ...

Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), Activities, Policy Research ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory CS, Capacity Building CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Advisory, Capacity Building, Foundation, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Cybersecurity High-Level Policy Briefings, ICT4Peace Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building, Tech against terrorism

28. June 2017

Remarks at ZIF’s 15 year celebrations on social media and peace

The Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze gGmbH (Centre for International Peace Operations) based in Berlin, Germany, invited Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, to talk on social media and peace ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

31. May 2017

Field report: Workshops on strategic communications & CVE in Balkans

As we posted recently, the ICT4Peace Foundation, with CIJA US in cooperation with BIRN and Talks 2.0 is conducting a series of interactive, hands-on workshops in the Balkans to support community leaders, ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Capacity Building, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

13. May 2017

Strategic Communications Workshops on Dangerous Content Response in the Balkans

Based on extensive experience and work around countering violent extremism online in Asia, the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa was invited to be a key resource person and trainer ...

Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory, Capacity Building, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

24. April 2017

ICT4Peace on ICTs and Human Rights Protection

ICT4Peace was invited by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHRs) to participate in the consultations on its Management Plan 2018-2021. The comments of ICT4Peace’s Sanjana ...

1. April 2017

Workshop on strategic social media communications in Myanmar

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was tasked with the design and leading the delivery of a bootcamp workshop for seventeen individuals, comprising of six different teams, from ...

Policy Research ICT, Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

17. February 2017

Digital security training and social media advocacy in Afghanistan

Image courtesy Linkedin Sanjana Hattotuwa, a Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, has visited and trained activists and leading journalists in Afghanistan since 2015. Having visited the country over six ...

Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory, Capacity Building, 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

1. December 2016

Fake news in Myanmar: Social Media verification workshop

An informal workshop on verifying news and information spread across social media was held recently at Phandeeyar in Yangon, Burma, led by the Foundation’s Special Advisor, Sanjana Hattotuwa. Amongst the ...

Capacity Building ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, 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 for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

15. March 2016

Countering Violent Extremism & Mobile Advocacy in Myanmar

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to take part in Tech Camp 2016, held at Phandeeyar, where he talked about and trained on mobile advocacy and ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Capacity Building CS, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

27. February 2016

Operationalizing Peace Operations Reform: New Media and New Technologies

Clearing the Decks After a Year of Reviews: Operationalizing Peace Operations Reform, organised by ZIF, the Centre for International Peace Operations, was held from 25 – 26 February just outside ...

Advisory ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Publications, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations

20. October 2014

Supporting ICRC’s Global Partnerships for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation

Photo courtesy ICRC Daniel Stauffacher and Sanjana Hattotuwa from the ICT4Peace Foundation were invited to attend the inaugural Global Partnerships for Humanitarian Impact and Innovation conference held on October 16th ...

27. June 2014

How to innovate responsibly in a digital world?

On 19 June 2012 ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by Oxford University’s Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT (FRRIICT) Project to participate in a panel discussion at the ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Reports, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Cybersecurity High-Level Policy Briefings, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology

2. June 2014

The future of ICTs in peacebuilding: Presentation at Build Peace conference 2014

ICT4Peace was an early advisor to and sponsor of this first of its kind conference ‘Peace Through Technology‘ at MIT, Cambridge in April 2014. The Conference explored how information and ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, 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 for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Support to Build Peace

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 ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, 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

16. April 2014

Innovation in UN peacekeeping: Discussing the state-of-the-art and the future

On April 7th a high-level panel with the two UN Under-Secretaries for Peace-Keeping, Ameerah Haq and Hervé Ladsous was organized at IPI in New York focusing on advances in technologies ...

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, 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, Big data

1. June 2013

Presentation at OpenGov Hub on Big Data

Sanjana Hattotuwa from the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to deliver a brown-bag presentation at the OpenGov Hub in Washington DC in late April. His presentation was on Big Data and ...

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, Capacity Building ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, 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, Big data

23. May 2013

ICT4Peace, Big Data and Crisismapping magazines on Flipboard

The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to announce three new curated magazines on the visually compelling Flipboard, dealing with Big Data, crisismapping and ICTs for peacebuilding. Flipboard is one of the most ...

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, Capacity Building ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Publications, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Strategic input into and participation in UAviators.net, Big data, Support to crisis mapping and ICCM

24. August 2011

Successful deployment of Ushahidi – ICT4Peace information validation tool (The Matrix) during Egyptian election

In 2010, the ICT4Peace Foundation mandated Ushahidi to develop a plugin for Ushahidi’s existing web based platform to validate information generated from the ground. This plugin, called the Matrix, was ...

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Publications, Reports, Foundation, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In

18. June 2011

Crisismappers.net Webinar 2011: Going beyond Crisis Mapping

On 8 March 2011, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, delivered a webinar analysing the state of the field in crisis mapping, and asked some critical questions around ...

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Publications, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Support to crisis mapping and ICCM

15. June 2011

Using citizen journalism to bear witness to violence: TED Talk

Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa delivered his TED Talk at TED 2011 in Long Beach, California.

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Publications, Reports, Foundation, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

29. May 2011

Report on global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability

The Transparency Accountability Initiative recently released the final report on a Global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability. As the launch press release avers, As internet and mobile phone ...

Advisory ICT, Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Publications, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In, Big data, Support to crisis mapping and ICCM

3. November 2010

ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes

An ICT4Peace Publication by Caroline Hargreaves and Sanjana Hattotuwa

What is being done to support the prevention of mass atrocity crimes as well as reconciliation, healing and justice with a particular emphasis on the use of Information and Communications ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Publications, Reports, Foundation, Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In, Big data

9. July 2010

Eric Gujer of NZZ on ICT4Peace and New Social Media in Crisis Management: “Schwarm-Intelligenz and Rudel-Blödsinn”

Article by Eric Gujer, Editor in Chief of NZZ on the role of social media in Crisis Management: Schwarm-Intelligenz und Rudel-Blödsinn.

ICT4Peace in the Media, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Activities, Advisory ICT, Publications, Reports, Foundation, 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, Big data, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

6. June 2010

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation selected as 2010 TEDGlobal Fellow

27 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: The ICT4Peace Foundation is very pleased to announce that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation has been selected as a 2010 TEDGlobal Fellow for his ...

Activities, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Capacity Building ICT, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, ICT4Peace in the Media, Foundation, 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, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In, Constitution building and institutional strengthening post-war/post-conflict, Big data, Wikis for crisis information management

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Anne-Marie Buzatu participating in Geneva Peace Week High-Level Panel on How to leverage technology for human-centered peacebuilding

Sanjana Hattotuwa curating Conference: ‘New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of SocialMedia’ – Registration Live