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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  ...

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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  ...

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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  ...

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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  ...

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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  ...

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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  ...

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