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

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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Video of presentation by Sanjana Hattotuwa: Towards pandemic panopticons or something radically new?

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  ...

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Open Letter to the Swiss Minister of Health and Reply regarding Proximity Tracing (Swiss PT App)

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  ...

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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 Alcira

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)    ...

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Post-Coronavirus: Towards pandemic panopticons or something radically new?

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  ...

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A Human Centric Framework to Evaluate the Risks Raised by Contact-Tracing Applications

By Beatriz Botero Arcila, Harvard Law School

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  ...

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