The ICT4Peace Foundation is delighted to release the Fourth episode of Digital Distortions, a podcast series looking at the role, reach, and relevance of disinformation, and truth decay in contemporary ...
Gendering Cybersecurity through Women, Peace and Security: Gender and Human Rights in National-level Approaches to Cybersecurity A project by the ICT4Peace Foundation and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) ...
ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) were delighted to participate in two inaugural Conferences on Digital Democracy and Ethics in Technological Societies at ETH by the newly ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to release Episode 4 of Brown Bag, the ICT4Peace podcast series on social media, politics, democracy and society from a Global South perspective, hosted and produced by ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to release Episode 3 of Brown Bag, the ICT4Peace podcast series on social media, politics, democracy and society from a Global South perspective, hosted and produced by ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to launch the ICT4Peace Brown Bag Podcast Series on Social Media, Politics and Society from a Global South perspective, hosted by ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor, Dr Sanjana ...
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased to endorse, support and recognise the UN’s first International Day for Countering Hate Speech, falling on 18 June 2022. As the UN Secretary General’s message ...
The Digital Space and Peace Processes – A Thought Piece “This brief informs the Principles for Peace (P4P), a global participatory initiative to develop a new set of principles, standards ...
ICT4Peace Special Advisor Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa will speak on “THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TACKLING HATE SPEECH” at the forthcoming webinar on 23 May 2022 (1 to 2 pm EST or ...
The institutionalisation of fear: Global digital surveillance with dubious pandemic legitimacy Article by Regina Surber, Scientific Advisor of ICT4Peace in Open Access Government. Governments around the globe are justifying ever ...
ICT4Peace, in cooperation with the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET), is pleased to publish this compilation of policy briefs op-eds and recorded talks (2017 – 2022) by Regina ...
ICT4Peace Special Advisor Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa was invited to deliver a brown-bag session guest lecture by Prof. Karsten Donnay, Assistant Professor, Political Behavior and Digital Media at the University of ...
ICT4Peace Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa’s on-going research on misinformation and disinformation was extensively used in an investigative report looking at New Zealand’s information disorders in relation to protests that have ...
ICT4Peace is proud to congratulate its oldest colleague and friend Sanjana Hattotuwa for obtaining his PhD degree from Otago University’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). He was supervised ...
ICT4Peace is happy to announce the publication: “Is the Corona pandemic a gateway to global surveillance? by Regina Surber. The link to the publication by ResearchOutreach can be found here. The ...
ICT4Peace is delighted to have published this Compilation of a series of short papers, articles and op-eds by Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, ICT4Peace Special Advisor, in the aftermath of the horrendous March ...
For us the land is matrix and destroyer, Resentful, darkly known By sunset omens, low words heard in branches. — Poem in the Matukituki Valley, James K. Baxter “In the woods ...
Meaningful policymaking to fight the swelling seed, spread and supremacy of misinformation benefits from data and evidence alive to socio-political realities. A new report from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Classification Office ...
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ICT4Peace Foundation’s Special Advisor Sanjana Hattotuwa was invited by New Zealand’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to speak at He Whenua Taurikura, New Zealand’s first annual hui (meaning a ...
ICT4Peace welcomes the latest report by OCHA on new and emerging technologies in humanitarian action. The OCHA Report can be found here. Announcing the report OCHA writes: “The report – From ...
Please signup for the Conference: ‘New Ec(h)o systems: Democracy in the age of SocialMedia‘ here Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace has curated this Conference Please find the description of the Conference ...
Facebook, Twitter Struggling in Fight against Balkan Content Violations Report by Ivana Jeremic and Milica Stojanovic BIRN February 16, 202109:56 Interesting investigation reveals serious holes in content policing by Facebook and ...
In January 2021 the Swiss NGO Alliance F launched the STOP HATE SPEECH Project. Sophie Achermann, CEO of Alliance F and Co-Director of Stop Hate Speech wrote this blog post for ICT4Peace. ...
ICT4Peace is honored to have been associated with the Zurich Human Rights Film Festival since the beginning. This year ICT4Peace will be supporting the screening of the documentary Film “iHuman”. ...
As a global custodian of technology in the pursuit of peace, the ICT4Peace Foundation congratulates the United Nations on its 75th anniversary. ICT4Peace was launched with the support of the ...
Is Social Media Driving Instability? By Sanjana Hattotuwa. Posted on 12 October 2020 on the New Zealand Classification Office official website. What could I do to destabilise New Zealand? Quite ...
This article first appeared on Techonomy. ### Facebook is a company that responds to pressure, and to lawsuits, but we in the Global South, at least as much affected by ...
Beyond Covid-19: Connectivity and digitisation empowers people in developing countries Op-ed by Amb. Martin Dahinden in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). The original text in German can be found here. ...
Framing In 2002, as an integral part of an official ceasefire negotiations processes in Sri Lanka after decades of war, commercial off-the-shelf-software (COTS) was adopted and adapted to support the ...
Cross-posted from the TechPops website, curated by Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Berlin, where Sanjana Hattotuwa – Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation – was one of just 100 ...
In this interview Anne-Marie Buzatu discusses the importance and potential risks of increased personal surveillance (i.e. through tracking apps) related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This interview was been conducted by ...
Post-Coronavirus: Towards pandemic panopticons or something radically new? was a presentation delivered by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the Foundation, on the invitation of Christina Goodness, Chief Information Management Officer ...
On 24 April 2020 ICT4Peace wrote an open letter to the Swiss Federal Councillor and Minister of Health Alain Berset regarding the possible deployment of a “Decentralised Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing ...
Contact-tracing apps are important but less effective in a social welfare vacuum: Governments and businesses must help us to help each other A blog post by Beatriz Botero Alcira1) ...
On the invitation of Christina Goodness, Chief Information Management Officer at the Departments of Peacebuilding, Political and Peace Operations DPPA-DPO, the ICT4Peace Foundation’s Sanjana Hattotuwa gave a presentation titled ‘Beyond ...
ICT4Peace is pleased to publish a paper by Beatriz Botero Arcila on A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications Digital technologies, data-gathering and analytics are ...
On 14 April 2020, Sanjana Hattotuwa, an Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation had a conversation with Helena Puig Larauri, Co-founder and Director at Build Up over Skype, on issues anchored ...
When going viral can be lethal: The need for reliable information in the wake of Covid-19 By Anne-Marie Buzatu[1] In these uncertain Covid-19 times, most of us have been scrambling to ...
CORONA PAN(DEM)IC: THE GATEWAY TO GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE? Our solidarity must be grounded on facts – not on fear. As a follow-up to the key note speech by Regina Surber ...
Regina Surber, Senior Advisor at ICT4Peace and the Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET) delivered the keynote speech at the #SwissCognitive and @AICapitalCO virtual conference entitled “Corona, Technology and Human Rights”. Regina provided ...
ICT4Peace is very pleased to announce that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor ICT4Peace Foundation and PhD candidate at Otago University’s National Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (NCPACS) has co-launched and will lead ...
Addressing Externality Costs of Misinformation in the Digital Age
In this new report and submission to the United Nations, ICT4Peace considers the ad-revenue models of social media platforms that amplify misinformation and generate externality costs and proposes innovative solutions ...