UN Crisis Information Management Strategy (CIMS)

MONUSCO: Workshop on ICTs and new media for UN peacekeeping and peace-building

Improving Situational Awareness Workshop and Training at MONUSCO, Goma DRC, 13 – 16 May Improved situational awareness is critical to effective operations and informed decision-making to protect civilians, save lives  ...

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Humanitarian Logistics and Management course in Lugano

Since the first cohort of students over four years ago, the ICT4Peace Foundation has lectured at the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management at the University of Lugano. The Foundation’s  ...

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Humanitarian Drones: New magazine on FlipBoard

To complement the launch of the UAViators platform and network, the ICT4Peace Foundation started to curate a FlipBoard magazine on the use of UAVs and drones for non-lethal purposes, with  ...

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UAViators: Exploring the use of UAVs for non-lethal purposes

Photo credit: Pia Zaragoza, via UNICEF In March 2014, Patrick Meier invited the ICT4Peace Foundation to give input into what at the time was a draft note around creating a global  ...

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Innovation in UN peacekeeping: Discussing the state-of-the-art and the future

On April 7th a high-level panel with the two UN Under-Secretaries for Peace-Keeping, Ameerah Haq and Hervé Ladsous was organized at IPI in New York focusing on advances in technologies  ...

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Crisis Management: Understanding the Real Impact of ICTs, Social Media and Crisis Mapping

The idea of trying to better understand the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in promoting and building peace emerged, at a policy level, in the context of the  ...

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