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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to endorse, support and recognise the UN’s first International Day for Countering Hate Speech, falling on 18 June 2022. As the UN Secretary General’s message ...
ICT4Peace, in cooperation with the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), is pleased to publish this compilation of policy briefs op-eds and recorded talks (2017 – 2022) by Regina ...
The Red Cross was previously considered untouchable. The fact that it is now the victim of an attack could be a wake-up call for all humanitarian organizations. So far, there ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by Dr. Kerstin Tomiak to deliver a lecture on social media and democracy at CODE University of Applied Sciences on ...
On the occasion of the 21st Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), the ICT4Peace Foundation, the Women’s International League for Peace and ...
ICT4Peace is happy to announce the publication: “Is the Corona pandemic a gateway to global surveillance? by Regina Surber. The link to the publication by ResearchOutreach can be found here. The ...
ICT4Peace is proud to have hosted the panel with the Directors Robert Thalheim and Oliver Ziegenbalg and ICTePeace’s Vice-President Anne-Marie Buzatu on the occasion of the world premiere of the new ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to have published this Compilation of a series of short papers, articles and op-eds by Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, ICT4Peace Special Advisor, in the aftermath of the horrendous March ...
Meaningful policymaking to fight the swelling seed, spread and supremacy of misinformation benefits from data and evidence alive to socio-political realities. A new report from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Classification Office ...
ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa was invited by New Zealand’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to write this policy brief on the occasion of He Whenua Taurikura, New ...
On 3 June 2021, SaferGlobe hosted a virtual Teams event interrogating the use of technology in peacebuilding. ICT4Peace Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa joined Christina Dahl Jensen, Senior Advisor for Innovation, ...
In this primer Prof. Thomas Burri and Dr. Fredrick von Bothmer 1) discuss the EU Commission’s proposal of 21 April 2021 of new Union legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) ...
ICT4Peace welcomes the latest report by OCHA on new and emerging technologies in humanitarian action. The OCHA Report can be found here. Announcing the report OCHA writes: “The report – From ...
This article by Special Advisor at ICT4Peace, Sanjana Hattotuwa, was originally published on the website of Institute for Human Rights and Business. ### The world’s biggest social media platform, Facebook, ...
Image courtesy Guardian As part of the New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of social media, Paul Ash, the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Cyber and Digital ...
Conceived of and curated by ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa, the New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of social media conference was held at the University of Otago, ...
Please signup for the Conference: ‘New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of SocialMedia‘ here Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace has curated this Conference Please find the description of the Conference ...
In January 2021 the Swiss NGO Alliance F launched the STOP HATE SPEECH Project. Sophie Achermann, CEO of Alliance F and Co-Director of Stop Hate Speech wrote this blog post for ICT4Peace. ...
ICT4Peace is honored to have been associated with the Zurich Human Rights Film Festival since the beginning. This year ICT4Peace will be supporting the screening of the documentary Film “iHuman”. ...
ICT4Peace on 2 October 2020 hosted the ZFF talk about the film The Dissident by Bryan Fogel at the 16th Zurich Film Festival to honour Jamal Khashoggi. The recording of the extraordinary ...
ICT4Peace is glad to continue the partnership with the series Hashtag #GetUpStandUp at the 16th Zurich Film Festival. In this context ICT4Peace hosts the ZFF Talk about the movie The ...
ICT4Peace welcomes the release of Report of the UN Secretary General: Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 2020. “Digital technology does not exist in a vacuum – it has enormous potential for ...
Contact-tracing apps are important but less effective in a social welfare vacuum: Governments and businesses must help us to help each other A blog post by Beatriz Botero Alcira1) ...
On the invitation of Christina Goodness, Chief Information Management Officer at the Departments of Peacebuilding, Political and Peace Operations DPPA-DPO, the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Sanjana Hattotuwa gave a presentation titled ‘Beyond ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to publish a paper by Beatriz Botero Arcila on A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications Digital technologies, data-gathering and analytics are ...
When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19 By Anne-Marie Buzatu[1] In these uncertain Covid-19 times, most of us have been scrambling to ...
CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE? Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear. As a follow-up to the key note speech by Regina Surber ...
Regina Surber, Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) delivered the keynote speech at the #SwissCognitive and @AICapitalCO virtual conference entitled “Corona, Technology and Human Rights”. Regina provided ...
ICT4Peace is very pleased to announce that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor ICT4Peace Foundation and PhD candidate at Otago University’s National Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (NCPACS) has co-launched and will lead ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, has since 2014 conducted workshops in Afghanistan anchored to digital security, social media strategy, strategic communications. Workshops have been anchored to the ...
Along with Dr. Christian B. Westermann, Leader Data & Analytics and Partner at PwC Switzerland, Dr. Daniel Stauffacher, President, ICT4Peace and Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) ...
ICT4Peace has had quite a year! Over the course of 2019, the breadth and complexity of our work can be gleaned through the more than 80 blog posts as well ...
After having participated in the First substantive session of the OEWG – New York, 9-13 September 2019, where ICT4Peace delivered the following statement , along with a written submission of its views, ...
Kevin Kohler, Pascal Oberholzer and Nicolas Zahn of the Swiss Think Tank foraus published the policy paper: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence The executive summary of the paper notes: “Artificial ...
As part of the #SpeakingTheTruth series of films supported by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) at the 2019 Zurich Film Festival, Sanjana Hattotuwa ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation was invited participate in and present at the ‘Expert Dialogue on Technology and Peace Operations’ organised by the Centre for International Peace Operations in Berlin, from 1-2 ...
As part of the #SpeakingTheTruth series, the Foundation will host a Q&A session after the screening of ‘Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World‘, a film by Hans Pool, on 5th ...
ICT4Peace is honored to have been in invited by the New Zealand Government to join The Christchurch Call Advisory Network. In addition to other input, the Foundation will help prepare ...
At the end of August, ICT4Peace Foundation, with support from the German Federal Foreign Office, conducted a two-day workshop on trusted attribution in cyberspace. The workshop was organised with the ...
On Monday 24 June 2019, Anne-Marie Buzatu Senior Advisor for ICT4Peace attended the event Unpacking the High-Level Panel’s Report: Contributions from Geneva hosted by the Geneva Internet Platform, in conjunction with ...
Image courtesy Vice The ICT4Peace Foundation congratulates the Secretary-General of the UN on the launch of the UN strategy and plan of action on hate speech. The Foundation’s research into ...
On 20 May 2019, Sanjana Hattotuwa, a Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation since 2006, gave a well-attended public lecture at the University of Zurich on the role, reach and ...
To support the launch of the UN SG Guterres’ Report on Digital Cooperation on 10 June 2019, ICT4peace submitted the following four questions addressed to the UN SG, Melinda Gates ...
ICT4Peace’s Regina Surber took part in the panel ‘AI, Human Dignity and Inclusive Societies’ at ITU’s AIforGood Conference in Geneva. The panel was moderated by Megan Metzger, co-panelists were Wafa ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the organisers of Point 8.0 in Sarajevo to participate in a panel discussion anchored to Tech, Fear and Accountability, ...
ICT4Peace is honoured that Daniel Stauffacher, Founding President of ICT4Peace has been invited, along with other members of civil society, by the Prime Minister RT Hon Jacinda Ardern to participate in the ...
The Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online In preparation of the Christchurch Call Meeting hosted by the Prime Minister RT Hon Jacinda Ardern in ...
On 24 April 2019 Regina Surber published an op-ed in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ): “Auslagerung des Grundrechtsschutzes von der Politik auf Firmen” (Are governments outsourcing protection of fundamental rights to ...
Together with Professor Maria Chiara Carrozza, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) participated in a Panel on „Technology off Limits” at the Human Rights ...
During the 2019 Group on Governmental Experts Meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the UN in Geneva, 25-29 March 2019, Regina Surber of ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics ...
Managing the risks and rewards of emerging and converging technologies: International cooperation, national policy and the role of the individual. A new paper by Regina Surber. Access it here. The ...
On Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by devasting terrorist attacks across the country, claimed by ISIS some days later. The attacks killed over 250, and injured many hundreds more. ...
Wonderful news said all the Sri Lankans. But why Queensland, all the Australians asked. Fifteen years ago, a Rotary World Peace Fellowship award offered seven universities around the world to ...
Almost exactly a year ago, Facebook was in the news in New Zealand over a row with Privacy Commissioner John Edwards. The heated public exchange between Edwards and the company ...
In the aftermath of the Christchurch Tragedy, on 18 March 2019, Swiss Radio conducted an Interview with Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace on the role of social media in the ...
Whether bound by country, city or community, the pulse of or, on Friday, the pain from a place like Christchurch can often be determined by the careful collection of social ...
Coming out of a long meeting, the first I heard of the violence in Christchurch was from those in Sri Lanka who had got breaking news alerts. I was both ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF) to give a presentation on the impact of social media around political ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to present for the consideration of the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation some insights, observations and recommendations based on over ten years of a close, ...
2018 served to acutely remind us of the essential fragility of that initial idea the pioneers of the Internet had around bringing humanity together by connecting them. From the start ...
ICT4peace, in cooperation with the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), is proud to announce its most recent paper Human security in the age of AI: Securing and empowering ...
Dr. Serge Droz and Daniel Stauffacher participated in the ICRC Symposium on Digital Risks in Situations of Armed Conflict on 11 & 12 December. The program, “Digital Risks in Situations of Armed ...
ICTs and Human Rights Chaired by a woman, Eleanor Roosevelt, the Committee at the United Nations tasked with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) finished its work in ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation partners with the Human Rights Film Festival and presents the renowed and very important documentary “The Cleaners”: When you post something on the web, can you be ...
Representing ICT4Peace, Sanjana Hattotuwa participated in a panel discussion at Techonomy 2018 held in Half Moon Bay, San Francisco, on 13th November 2018. Titled ‘Can Facebook recover’, the panel’s description ...
ICT4Peace is pleased that Special Advisor Sanjana Hattottuwa has published Policy Brief by Toda Peace Institute and the Alliance for Peacebuilding on social media and violence during elections, anchored to ...
ICT4peace is pleased to report that over 100,000 people have already signed the Digital Peace Now Petition that ICT4Peace has helped launch together with Microsoft, Civicus, Observer Research Foundation and ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is very pleased to announce its participation at Techonomy 2018. The Foundation’s Special Advisor, Sanjana Hattotuwa, was recently featured by Techonomy Curator, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, David Kirkpatrick ...
ICT4Peace is proud to be a founding Advisory Board Member of Digital Peace Campaign initiated by Microsoft and announced at the Global Citizen Festival, Central Park, New York. Early September 2018 ...
ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology, sponsors of the new section Hashtag # Big data at the Zurich Film Festival, have organised on 6 October 2018 a ...
Regina Surber and Daniel Stauffacher published the following guest commentary in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) on 19 September 2018. Regina Surber is a Scientific Advisor to ICT4Peace and the ...
As noted on Twitter, the ICT4Peace Foundation welcomes the release of the report on new technologies by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The report outlines a bold new vision for the ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) are proud partners of the #BigData section of the 14th Zurich Film Festival. In this context, the foundation has organised a talk, which ...
On 21 September 2018, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation, delivered a lecture on Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’ to a packed room in Vischer AG in Zurich, Switzerland. ...
The Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) and the ICT4Peace Foundation are happy to be the partner of the new program section at the Zurich Film Festival called “Hashtag ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to be part of the Integrity, Safety, and Conflict Roundtable held at Facebook’s HQ in Menlo Park, from 17-18 September 2018. ...
The Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) organised a workshop on Understanding and Countering Disinformation, Online ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, presented at “Social Media and Mediation: the good, the bad and the ugly”, a workshop held in Geneva on 10 July 2018, ...
Alain Modoux and Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace at the World Press Freedom Celebration at the UN Geneva on 3 May 2018. Alain Modoux and Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace participated in ...
As noted on its website, since 2015, the Human Rights Film Festival Zurich takes place each year on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights on 10 December. ...
«SURVEILLANCE AND PRIVACY AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CITIZEN» The screening of «Black Code» will be followed by a conversation with Ronald Deibert (author and director of the Citizen Lab ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, has since earlier this year, and at the invitation of the compelling Resonant Voices Initiative (RVI), engaged with civil society and other stakeholders, including ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to attend Crisis Code: Humanitarian Protection in the Digital Age, a two-day conference exploring how crisis-affected populations can be safeguarded ...
Crisis Code: Humanitarian Protection in the Digital Age A two-day conference exploring how crisis-affected populations can be safeguarded from emerging threats in cyberspace. See here for more details. ICT4Peace’s Sanjana ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to be of the panel of jurists at the Resonant Voices Hackathon, held in Durrës, Albania from 14-17 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 ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by Junior Chamber International (JCI) for their inaugural International Summit on Peace, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia from 6-8 September ...
In April 2017, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was tasked with the design and leading the delivery of a bootcamp workshop for seventeen individuals, comprising of six different ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the Centre for Investigative Journalism Nepal to support a workshop for leading journalists from around the country in the ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation, has travelled to Kabul at least once a year since 2015 at the invitation of Internews to conduct workshops on strategic communications, social ...
Daniel Stauffacher, President of ICT4Peace, was invited to be speaker at Cyber Week 2017, which took place place in Tel Aviv from June 25th to June 29th. He participated in ...
As we posted recently, the ICT4Peace Foundation, with CIJA US in cooperation with BIRN and Talks 2.0 is conducting a series of interactive, hands-on workshops in the Balkans to support community leaders, ...
Based on extensive experience and work around countering violent extremism online in Asia, the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa was invited to be a key resource person and trainer ...
ICT4Peace was invited by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHRs) to participate in the consultations on its Management Plan 2018-2021. The comments of ICT4Peace’s Sanjana ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was tasked with the design and leading the delivery of a bootcamp workshop for seventeen individuals, comprising of six different teams, from ...
Image courtesy Linkedin Sanjana Hattotuwa, a Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, has visited and trained activists and leading journalists in Afghanistan since 2015. Having visited the country over six ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation has for many years worked with the UN and ICRC to strengthen the awareness and understanding of, need for as well as the meaningful implementation of standards, ...
ICT4Peace is proud to have been invited on 23 August 2016 by the 2016 Annual Conference of Swiss Ambassadors and foreign representations at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to participate in a validation meeting around a study, led by UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Geneva Academy ...
From 11 to 15 April 2016, the ICT4Peace Foundation conducted an ENTRi certified training programme on a variety of new media tools and platforms used in the collection, presentation, verification, and ...
Note to the UN OHCHR: Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. By Sanjana Hattotuwa. The ICT4Peace Foundation thanks the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for ...
Having participated remotely in the first Protection Information Management (PIM) meeting held in May 2015, and subsequently given input to working documents that captured the discussions at the meeting, ICT4Peace ...
At the invitation of the Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU), Sanjana Hattotuwa conducted an information presentation on hate and dangerous speech monitoring plus counter-speech strategies, as well as social media ...
A new report released by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, titled the ‘Use of information and communications technologies to secure the right to life‘ ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to a strategic workshop on the Human Rights Up ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, met with Chad Hendrix, Patrick Gordon, members of the UN Information Management Working Group (IMWG), the ICRC’s Tarun Sarwal and Gulheim Ravier and ...
Led by the UN’s Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the 2014 Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) meeting was held on 23rd ...
On 19 June 2012 ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher was invited by Oxford University’s Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT (FRRIICT) Project to participate in a panel discussion at the ...
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 ...
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 ...
On March 28 2014, as part of the cooperation between the ICT4Peace Foundation and the ETH International Security Network (ISN), the ISN hosted a Roundtable Discussion on “Big Data, ICTs ...
Photo credit: Pia Zaragoza, via UNICEF In March 2014, Patrick Meier invited the ICT4Peace Foundation to give input into what at the time was a draft note around creating a global ...
Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, writes to SciDev.net on the importance of maintaining a rights based perspective when dealing with and understanding ‘Big Data’. ### “These questions pose ...
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 ...
On 26 March 2014 Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher from the ICT4Peace Foundation continued its ongoing engagement with the Peace Mission Support and Rapid Response Section and the Methodology, Education ...
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 ...
Google Ideas, in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations and Gen Next Foundation, hosted the Conflict in a Connected World summit in New York from 20 – 22 October ...
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 ...
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 ...
Led by the UN’s Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the 2013 Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) meeting was held on 2nd ...
Dutch Red Cross worker Meike Groen, working for the ICRC in Haiti, helps people use the satellite phone to reassure relatives that they are alive, via Flickr. © ICRC / Marko Kokic / ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation recognises UN OCHA’s new publication Humanitarianism in the Network Age as a significant contribution to our understanding of how new technologies including new web based social media, are ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation on Tuesday, 12th March held a workshop with The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)’s Peace Mission Support and Rapid Response Section. ...
Member of the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Advisory Board, Egyptian digital activist, blogger, and WACC member Kamal Sedra will lead the webinar about how social media has influenced—and is influencing—the Egyptian political ...
Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze (ZIF) and ICT4Peace Foundation announce the new Crisis Information Management Training Course at the International Peace Support Training Center (IPSTC), Nairobi from 23 ...
Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law together with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Google.org, convened a two-day workshop to advance ...
A report on the use of Information and Communications Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Having first taught at the ISCRAM Summer School in 2011, ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa was again invited to teach at the 2012 Summer School, held at the University ...
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, with support from Google, organised a two-day workshop, from 6 ...
On 23 August 2012, Simone Eymann on behalf of the ICT4Peace Foundation participated in a one-day consultation, co-organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and InterAction, on ...
Daniel Stauffacher of ICT4Peace participated on 29 June 2012 in the Policy round table Risk and Crisis Communication and the new social media: Opportunities for international cooperation. This Panel was ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, was the only Sri Lankan present at Google’s Internet at Liberty 2012 conference held in Washington DC from 23 – 24 May. ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation, infoDev, a global partnership of the World Bank, and ITU organised a well attended High-Level Dialogue and Thematic Workshop on “ICT for post-conflict reconstruction” during the World ...
An interview with Daniel Stauffacher by www.unimondo.org (OneWorld Italy) Available also here. Mappe interattive che segnalano focolai di violenza elaborate a partire da segnalazioni via sms e internet. Video educativi ...
George Sadowsky, the editor, along with Najeeb Al-Shorbaj, WHO, Torbjörn Fredriksson, UNCTAD, two of the fourteen authors and ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher, member of the Board of the World Wide Web ...
Daniel Stauffacher, ICT4Peace’s President, participated in a live seminar on Social Media as a Tool for Humanitarian Protection organised by Harvards Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HCPR) (see link: http://www.hpcrresearch.org/events/live-seminar-44-social-media-tool-humanitarian-protection). ...
Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, along with Lars Peter Nissen, Director, Assessment Capacities Project participated in a panel on “Information and Communication Technology – Sustainable Solutions”, organized by Prof. Jarrod Goentzel, ...
Representing the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa participated and lectured in Information and Intelligence Cooperation in Multifunctional International Operations, a course run by the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sandö – Stockholm. ...
The Ushahidi blog features a guest post by Alex Mayyasi, a graduate of Stanford University’s International Relations program, class of 2011, living in Cairo, Egypt on the use of the ...
On 22 December 2011, ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher adressed over 60 Swiss Parliamentarians, Senior Government Officials and ICT Business Representatives in Bern Switzerland at a dinner organised by the pro Open ...
Along with Delilah H.A. Al Khudhairy from the EU’s JRC, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation delivered the keynote address at the 2011 International Network of Crisis Mappers, ...
28 November, Geneva, Switzerland – Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation, participated as a member of the Futurict project team in the EU FET Flagship Pilots Midterm Conference, 24-25 November 2011, ...
23 November, Geneva, Switzerland – The ICT4Peace Foundation and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with the International Network of Crisis Mappers successfully organised and co-hosted the ...
In support of the first elections since the revolution in Tunisia on 23 October 2011, the Tunisian “Higher Independent Election Committee” or “Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Elections” (ISIE) has ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation once again taught at the first of its kind Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management Programme (MAS HLM) at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. ...
Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Nations and Co-Founder and Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation writes for the UN Chronicle on Crisis Information Management. He notes that, ...
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 ...
Sanjana Hattotuwa, on behalf of the ICT4Peace Foundation, delivered a presentation at “Enhancing Information and Communication: Issues for Policymakers, Ambassadors, and Commanders” organised by National Defence University, Fort Lesley J. ...
Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa delivered his TED Talk at TED 2011 in Long Beach, California.
Ushahidi and the ICT4Peace Foundation have agreed to jointly develop an enhanced ICT4Peace Crisis Information Management Platform Demonstrator (CIMD), based on Ushahidi’s existing platform and as deployed e.g. in Libya ...
The Transparency Accountability Initiative recently released the final report on a Global mapping of technology for transparency and accountability. As the launch press release avers, As internet and mobile phone ...
ICT is a huge enabler and source of empowerment, allowing individuals to take some, albeit limited, control of their own destiny within the chaotic framework of a crisis, natural disaster ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation, the Swiss Confederation and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center are pleased to announce and invite you to participate at the 3rd International Conference of Crisis Mappers ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is proud to inform that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation, has been selected TEDFellow 2011. This constitutes a well deserved recognition not only of Sanjana’s outstanding ...
11.1.11, Switzerland: The ICT4Peace Foundation, in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and GeorgiaTech, is pleased to release, on the occasion of the anniversary ...
The Swiss Journal “Frauenstimme – Voix des Femmes – Voce delle Donne” which is the journal of the Swiss organisation “Women for Peace” features an article by Daniel Stauffacher of ...
Status of implementation of the information and communications technology strategy for the United Nations Secretariat, Report of the Secretary-General (A/65/491) prominently underscores the Crisis Information Management (CiM) Strategy, which the ...
The Foundation develops and carries out training courses in Crisis Information Management (CiM) for multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholders missions in peacekeeping and peacebuilding. The content is anchored to new dimensions in ...
Article by Eric Gujer, Editor in Chief of NZZ on the role of social media in Crisis Management: Schwarm-Intelligenz und Rudel-Blödsinn.
The ICT4Peace Foundation features in an article and interview in one of the leading German language newspapers, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), on the role of new Information and communication technologies ...
27 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: The ICT4Peace Foundation is very pleased to announce that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation has been selected as a 2010 TEDGlobal Fellow for his ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation with the support of UN DESA Global Alliance for ICT and Development organised a high -level lunch on 15 November 2007 at the UN New York, to ...
The Global Symposium +5 ‘Information for Humanitarian Action took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 22 – 26 October 2007 at the Palais des Nations. Watch the presentation by Sanjana Hattotuwa, ...
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From the New York Times comes an interesting news story on how the junta in Myanmar thwarted the use of the web and Internet by pro-democracy activists. It was about ...
ICT4Peace, ODR and ICT for crisis management Thoughts on the use of technology for peacebuilding, conflict transformation and reconciliation. Download this paper, and others on ICT4Peace by Sanjana Hattotuwa, here.
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ICT4Peace, ODR and ICT for crisis management Thoughts on the use of technology for peacebuilding, conflict transformation and reconciliation. Download the article here.
The ICT4Peace project was launched in 2004 with the publication of a book by the UN ICT Task Force on the practice and theory of ICT in the conflict cycle ...
The institutionalisation of fear: Global digital surveillance with dubious pandemic legitimacy
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 ...