Lecture at ETH Zurich: Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis
ICT4Peace’s Sanjana Hattotuwa has been invited to give a lecture on 27 March 2014 at the International Security Network (ISN) of ETH Zurich on “Big Data, ICTs and New Media ...
Crisis Information Management Capacity Building
New Media Course: Tools & Techniques for Civilian Crisis Management
Course Description This course introduces participants to a variety of new media tools and platforms used in the collection, presentation, verification, and dissemination of information. Participants have the chance to ...
Video: What’s so Big about Big Data?
Recorded at the 5th Annual International Conference of Crisis Mappers, Nairobi, Kenya, 18-22 November 2013 Host: ICT4Peace Foundation Moderated by Sanjana Hattotuwa [ICT4Peace Foundation] Key presentation by Jon Gosier [D8A ...
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 ...
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 ...
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