ICT4Peace Commentary

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  ...

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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  ...

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1. October 2024

“Private Actors, State Responsibility – What lessons does the private security industry hold for regulating private sector actors in cyberspace?”

Case Study by Anne-Marie Buzatu and James Siebens for the Stimson Report on Cyber Accountability

As part of the Stimson Report: “Cyber Accountability – Improving cyber accountability and deterring malicious cyber activity” (see the full report here), Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director of ICT4Peace and James  ...

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23. December 2023

Addressing Externality Costs of Misinformation in the Digital Age

By Anne-Marie Buzatu, Executive Director of ICT4Peace

In this new report and submission to the United Nations, ICT4Peace considers the ad-revenue models of social media platforms that amplify misinformation and generate externality costs and proposes innovative solutions  ...

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18. August 2023

ICT4Peace comments on the proposed new Swiss International Cooperation (IC) Strategy 2025 – 2028

Strategies for international cooperation to build a sustainable cyberspace for economic and social development, human dignity and implementing SDGs are absent.

Comments and recommendations from the ICT4Peace Foundation on the new proposed Strategy for the Swiss International Cooperation 2025 – 2028 (IC Message 25 – 28) The proposed IC Strategy 2025  ...

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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  ...

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