ICT4Peace teaching at ETH Zurich Swiss School of Public Governance

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, 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

17. September 2017

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 of Public Governance at ETH. Daniel Stauffacher was a guest speaker and gave an introduction to the emerging Governance of Peace and Security in Cyberspace (his presentation can be found here).

Sanjana Hattotuwa gave a full day lecture on the following topics:

Social media: What is the digital media landscape today and why does it matter for governance
Big Data, Open Data & Open Source Intelligence (OS-INT): How can it all aid policymaking?
New and neo-cartography: The world of web based mapping & implications for citizen participation in Early Warning, Disaster Risk Reduction, Humanitarian and Complex Political Emergencies
Navigating a post-factual world: ‘Fake news’ phenomenon and vectors, and introduction to social media verification