New media for crisis management and peacebuilding

Social Media as a Tool for Humanitarian Protection

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).  ...

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Presentation at “Information and Communication Technology – Sustainable Solutions”

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,  ...

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The potential and challenges of open data for crisis information management and aid efficiency: A preliminary assessment

The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to inform you about its most recent paper entitled The potential and challenges of open data for crisis information management and aid efficiency: A preliminary  ...

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Information and Intelligence Cooperation in Multifunctional International Operations

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.  ...

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Crisis Information Management Platform (CIM Platform)

During the high-level debate on ‘ICTs for Disaster Management’ and the workshop on ‘Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs’ at the World Summit on  ...

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ICT4Peace Foundation’s verification plugin for Ushahidi used in Egypt

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  ...

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