Humanitarian IT with Open Source: A Case Study on Disaster Management
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Strategic Input into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and humanitarian operations
Launch of the Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report
The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report – the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at ...
Open Source, interoperable web identity systems through Microsoft
Ars Technica has an article on Microsoft’s recent moves to secure and strengthen interoperability in web identity management frameworks. As the article avers: The concept of web identity involves three ...
Daring to Dream: Computer Supported Cooperative Frameworks (CSCW) for Peacebuilding
ICT4Peace, ODR and ICT for crisis management Thoughts on the use of technology for peacebuilding, conflict transformation and reconciliation. Download this paper, and others on ICT4Peace by Sanjana Hattotuwa, here.
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Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics
Social informatics is the body of research that examines the design, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies in ways that take into account their interaction with in- stitutional ...