Risk and opportunities of ICTs and social media in a pandemic world

Is Social Media Driving Instability?

A blogpost by Sanjana Hattotuwa

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  ...

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Facebook Reform Must Be Seen as a Global Matter

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  ...

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Amb. Martin Dahinden: Beyond Covid – Connectivity and digitization empowers people in developing countries

Op-ed by Amb. Martin Dahinden in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).

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.  ...

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Peace processes after the pandemic: What role for technology?

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  ...

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Post-pandemic peace operations

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  ...

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Anne-Marie Buzatu discusses potential risks of increased surveillance related to SARS-CoV-2

An interview by Claudia Solanes from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Switzerland.

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  ...

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