ICTs and Human Rights Protection

Report of the UN Secretary General: Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

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  ...

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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 Alcira

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)    ...

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Post-Coronavirus: Towards pandemic panopticons or something radically new?

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  ...

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A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications

By Beatriz Botero Arcila, Harvard Law School

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  ...

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ICT4Peace Blogpost: When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19

By Anne-Marie Buzatu, Senior Advisor ICT4Peace

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  ...

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CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE?

Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear.

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  ...

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