ICTs and Human Rights Protection – ICT4Peace Foundation

15. July 2023

Responsible Use of ICTs in Private Security Service: A Toolkit for Companies

A second phase project funded by the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In a world increasingly connected by digital tools, the rapid growth of private security services and their use of ICTs present both opportunities and challenges. Recognizing the need to address ...

Private Cybersecurity Services, Activities, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, ICTs and Human Rights Protection

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

11. March 2023

Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya studied through social media lenses

Special Advisor of ICT4Peace Foundation, Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, delivered a lecture on 6 March 2023 over a Twitter Space, moderated by Priyanga Hettiarachi, on his study of Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya ...

Activities, ICTs and Human Rights Protection

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 ...

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

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