Policy Research ICT

ICT for crisis management and peacebuilding

17. April 2014

UAViators: Exploring the use of UAVs for non-lethal purposes

Photo credit: Pia Zaragoza, via UNICEF In March 2014, Patrick Meier invited the ICT4Peace Foundation to give input into what at the time was a draft note around creating a global ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, 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, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Strategic input into and participation in UAviators.net, Big data

16. April 2014

Don’t lose sight of the people behind big data: Article on Scidev.net

Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, writes to SciDev.net on the importance of maintaining a rights based perspective when dealing with and understanding ‘Big Data’. ### “These questions pose ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

16. April 2014

Innovation in UN peacekeeping: Discussing the state-of-the-art and the future

On April 7th a high-level panel with the two UN Under-Secretaries for Peace-Keeping, Ameerah Haq and Hervé Ladsous was organized at IPI in New York focusing on advances in technologies ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, AI, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, Advisory ICT, AI, Autonomous Systems, Converging Technologies, Peace and Human Security, 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, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

12. April 2014

Crisis Management: Understanding the Real Impact of ICTs, Social Media and Crisis Mapping

The idea of trying to better understand the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in promoting and building peace emerged, at a policy level, in the context of the ...

ICT4Peace in the Media, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Advisory CS, Publications, Reports, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Geneva Cyber Week, Geneva Peace Week, Geneva Digital Atlas, UN WSIS Processes,Global Digital Compact, Summit for the Future, ICT4Peace Paragraph 36, UN SDGs, International Geneva

14. January 2014

Video: What’s so Big about Big Data?

Recorded at the 5th Annual International Conference of Crisis Mappers, Nairobi, Kenya, 18-22 November 2013 Host: ICT4Peace Foundation Moderated by Sanjana Hattotuwa [ICT4Peace Foundation] Key presentation by Jon Gosier [D8A ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

22. November 2013

What’s so Big about Big Data? | Panel at ICCM 2013, Nairobi, Kenya

The ICT4Peace Foundation hosted and moderated a discussion on Big Data at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) 2013, held in Nairobi, Kenya from 20 – 22 November at ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data, Support to crisis mapping and ICCM