ICT4Peace cybersecurity activities in June
During the month of June ICT4Peace participated in a number of events related to its global project on ICT and international peace and security. These included UNIDIR’s Annual Cyber Stability ...
Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet
Study on countering violent extremism and terrorism online, freedom of expression and the right to privacy
The ICT4Peace Foundation was invited to participate in a validation meeting around a study, led by UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Geneva Academy ...
UN and ICT4Peace engage with private sector on responding to terrorist use of ICT
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce the formal launch of its joint project with the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) on tech. sector engagement in responding to terrorist use of ...
Countering Violent Extremism & Mobile Advocacy in Myanmar
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, was invited to take part in Tech Camp 2016, held at Phandeeyar, where he talked about and trained on mobile advocacy and ...
Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
An ICT4Peace Note to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by a Sanjana Hattotuwa
Note to the UN OHCHR: Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. By Sanjana Hattotuwa. The ICT4Peace Foundation thanks the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for ...
UN and ICT4Peace launch project to counter use of ICTs for terrorist purposes in cooperation with the private sector
Since the late 1990s, terrorist groups have become more sophisticated in their use of the internet and ICT. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, extremist groups came ...