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ICT for crisis management and peacebuilding

14. November 2018

Impact of social media in elections: A policy brief

ICT4Peace is pleased that Special Advisor Sanjana Hattottuwa has published Policy Brief by Toda Peace Institute and the Alliance for Peacebuilding on social media and violence during elections, anchored to ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Policy Research, Publications, Reports, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, ICTs, new media and Election Monitoring:Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia, ICT4Peace Matrix Plug-In, Big data

6. October 2018

Welcoming UN Secretary General’s strategy on new technologies

As noted on Twitter, the ICT4Peace Foundation welcomes the release of the report on new technologies by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The report outlines a bold new vision for the ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, AI, LAWS, Converging Technologies and Peace Time Threats, 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

26. September 2018

Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’: Recording of public lecture

On 21 September 2018, Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation, delivered a lecture on Artificial Intelligence and ‘Fake News’ to a packed room in Vischer AG in Zurich, Switzerland. ...

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Fake News, AI, Misinformation, Artificial Intelligence

25. September 2018

ICT4Peace at Facebook Integrity, Safety, and Conflict Roundtable

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to be part of the Integrity, Safety, and Conflict Roundtable held at Facebook’s HQ in Menlo Park, from 17-18 September 2018. ...

AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Policy Research CS, Advisory CS, AI, LAWS, Converging Technologies and Peace Time Threats, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace

14. September 2018

Public talk on AI and fake news: Peeking into the rabbit hole

Speaker: Sanjana Hattotuwa Event details 21 September 2018, 11:30 – 13:30 Vischer AG Schützengasse 1 8001 Zürich For further information or registration please contact: annahofmann@ict4peace.org The term fake news increasingly frames our ...

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30. August 2018

ICT4Peace at UN Conference on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) from 27 to 31 August in Geneva

It is the third year that the ICT4Peace Foundation is taking part at discussions on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the ...

Policy Research ICT, AI, LAWS, Converging Technologies and Peace Time Threats, Big data, Norms of Responsible Behaviour and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for the Cyberspace, Zurich Hub for ethics and technology