ICT4Peace input to Christchurch Call for Action by PM Jacinda Ardern at UN GA New York

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23. September 2019

ICT4Peace is honored to have been in invited by the New Zealand Government to join The Christchurch Call Advisory Network. In addition to other input, the Foundation will help prepare the civil society input to the Christchurch Call Event hosted by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the UN General Assembly on 23 September 2019 in New York.

Since before the ‘Christchurch Call’ was formally announced by the New Zealand Prime Minister in concert with French President Emmanuel Macron, the ICT4Peace Foundation wrote on the tragedy from close to two decades of grounded experience and insights of Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa in using technology for peacebuilding and countering violent extremism.

List of op-eds

Sri Lankan social media expert: ‘We must confront what we fear’, 23 September 2019, Asia Media Centre
A historic opportunity, 16 April 2019, Otago Daily Times
Principles over promises: Responding to terrorism, 2 April 2019, Scoop
Pulse Points, 21 March 2019, Scoop
Terrorists know they have the upper hand on social media, 20 March 2019, Stuff.co.nz
NZ’s response can lead the way, 20 March 2019, Otago Daily Times

Download a PDF with all these op-eds here.

Presentations

Full video & slidedeck of lecture: From Christchurch to Sri Lanka – The curious case of social media
National Dialogue limits in the age of digital media: ‘New dialogic processes’

Input to ‘Christchurch Call’

ICT4Peace was invited by RT Hon Jacinda Ardern to discuss “Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online“
PDF of submission to the ‘Christchurch Call’
ICT4Peace input to Christchurch Call meeting in Paris

Podcast

Radio interview with President of ICT4Peace Foundation Daniel Stauffacher on the Christchurch Tragedy

ICT4Peace has since December 2015 supported the UN, companies and civil society in the field of preventing use of ICT for terrorist purposes, while respecting human rights. Pursuant to the United Nations Security Council resolution 2354 (2017) and the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Comprehensive International Framework to Counter Terrorist Narratives (S/2017/375) the Foundation helped co-launch with UNCTED the Tech Against Terrorism initiative and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (https://www.gifct.org/about/).

Photo courtesy Stuff