New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

17. May 2013

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  ...

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30. April 2013 Zurich

ICT4Peace brings UN OCHA and ETH Zurich together to evaluate the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL)

ICT4Peace brings UN OCHA and ETH Zurich together to evaluate the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) Zurich, 30 April 2013 The ICT4Peace Foundation has facilitated a first exchange between the UN  ...

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27. April 2013

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 /  ...

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18. April 2013

Big Data & social media for crisis management: Lecture at ETH, Zurich

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, delivered a public lecture on Big Data & social media for crisis management at Zurich’s Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH, one of  ...

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16. April 2013

Lecture at ZIF: Web based social media and peacekeeping

Image courtesy UN Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to deliver a presentation at Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin, Germany, on 15 April  ...

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15. April 2013

‘Humanitarianism in the Network Age’ by OCHA highlights shared interests and work

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  ...

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