UN OCHA thanks ICT4Peace Foundation
In late July 2013, Mark Dalton, the Chief of UN OCHA’s Information Services Branch officially wrote to the ICT4Peace Foundation to thank the Foundation’s support and intellectual input, over many ...
New media for crisis management and peacebuilding
Guidance for Collaborating with Formal Humanitarian Organizations
As noted by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), This guidance is intended for Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) and tech groups that have a ...
Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, Publications, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding
Presentation at OpenGov Hub on Big Data
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 ...
Activities, Policy Research ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data
ICT4Peace, Big Data and Crisismapping magazines on Flipboard
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 ...
Activities, Policy Research ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, Publications, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Strategic input into and participation in UAviators.net, Big data, Support to crisis mapping and ICCM
Report of Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) Retreat 2013
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 ...
Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, Reports, Foundation, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding
Consultation on “Protection in violent situations – standards for managing sensitive information”
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 / ...
Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, Reports, Foundation, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding