Policy Research ICT

ICT for crisis management and peacebuilding

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 / ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, Activities, 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

16. March 2013

Workshop on ICTs and Human Rights at United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The ICT4Peace Foundation on Tuesday, 12th March held a workshop with The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)’s Peace Mission Support and Rapid Response Section. ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS), Crisis Information Management Capacity Building, ICTs and Human Rights Protection, New media for crisis management and peacebuilding, Big data

9. March 2013

Training in Nairobi on Social Media as a Means of Crisis Information Management – A Kenyan Case Study

by Christopher Radler After having been rather illiterate in the field of Social Media and the huge potential it offers, and only being able to receive a first glimpse through ...

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

10. January 2013

Webinar: Digital activism, an Egyptian perspective

Member of the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Advisory Board, Egyptian digital activist, blogger, and WACC member Kamal Sedra will lead the webinar about how social media has influenced—and is influencing—the Egyptian political ...

Activities, Policy Research ICT, Advisory ICT, Capacity Building ICT, Advisory CS, Capacity Building CS, 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 Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy Capacity Building