ICTs and Human Rights Protection

Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis: Presentation at ETH, Zurich

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  ...

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UAViators: Exploring the use of UAVs for non-lethal purposes

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  ...

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Innovation in UN peacekeeping: Discussing the state-of-the-art and the future

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  ...

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OHCHR Workshop in Geneva: Using ICTs to strengthen human rights

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  ...

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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  ...

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