UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS)

Welcoming the timely release of UN’s Performance Peacekeeping Report

The ICT4Peace Foundation welcomes the release of the UN’s ‘Performance Peacekeeping’ Report, looking at the how technology in general and ICTs in particular can strengthen the mandate of the UN’s  ...

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UN General Assembly and UN Secretary General take important steps to improve Crisis Information Management

The UN General Assembly in December 2014 approved the UN Secretary-General’s Strategy, to better exploit the enormous potential of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for decision-making and delivery capacity of  ...

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Annual consultations in Geneva around CiM, innovation and human rights

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, met with Chad Hendrix, Patrick Gordon, members of the UN Information Management Working Group (IMWG), the ICRC’s Tarun Sarwal and Gulheim Ravier and  ...

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Call for deeper engagement by all for the peaceful use of ICTs in 2015

Dear Friends and Colleagues, 2014 has again been a busy year for all those working on ICTs to safe lives and protect human dignity as well as to maintain international  ...

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Better Information Management in Peacekeeping Operations through ICTs – Training at UN RSCE Entebbe

More photos from the training programme here. The ICT4Peace Foundation in cooperation with its partners, the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Berlin and the Folke Bernadotte Accademy, (FBA), Stockholm carried  ...

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UAV Experts Meeting at the United Nations

Co-sponsored by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the UAViators.org Experts Meeting on Humanitarian UAVs was held at the UN Secretariat in New York on Thursday, 6th November 2014. A full report by  ...

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