UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS)

20. July 2014

Report of Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) 2014 Retreat

Led by the UN’s Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation, the 2014 Crisis Information Management Advisory Group (CiMAG) meeting was held on 23rd  ...

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17. July 2014

Launch of OCHA’s new humanitarian data platform: Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)

The Foundation is pleased to note the launch of OCHA’s new humanitarian data platform, HDX. Shown a preview of it some weeks ago, the Foundation believes HDX – well beyond  ...

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26. June 2014

n=all: Training on big data for United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)

Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, gave a presentation on big data and data science at the invitation of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) in  ...

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23. June 2014

High Level Meeting of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) reaffirms the potential of ICT4Peace

In preparation of the Review of the outcome of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003 in Geneva and 2005 in Tunis by the UN General Assembly  ...

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7. June 2014

Innovations in peacebuilding: How technology is changing the way we see the world and respond to violent conflict

UNICEF recently featured Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation, in a podcast that looked at how technology was helping strengthen peacebuilding. Talking about how technology has changed the  ...

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2. June 2014

The future of ICTs in peacebuilding: Presentation at Build Peace conference 2014

ICT4Peace was an early advisor to and sponsor of this first of its kind conference ‘Peace Through Technology‘ at MIT, Cambridge in April 2014. The Conference explored how information and  ...

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