The Role of Communications Technology During Natural Disasters and Conflicts
As natural disasters and civil conflicts increase worldwide, so too does access to new and lower cost technologies. The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership’s...
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ICT4Peace calls for better disaster preparedness and crisis management at the Copenhagen Climate Summit 14 December 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark: The ICT4Peace Foundation actively engages at the...
View ArticleICT4Peace Foundation featured in IRIN podcast on use of technology in January...
UN OCHA’s IRIN news service has a podcast up that features key observations by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor at the ICT4Peace Foundation on the use of technology / ICTs in Haiti’s January 2010...
View ArticleICT4State-Building: African Experiences and Opportunities
View full report here by Crisis Management Initiative. ### The use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is becoming more and more commonplace around the world and the spread of mobile...
View ArticleWhat is ICT4Peace?: Article written for Strategic Foresight Group
“ICT4Peace is the belief, supported by a growing body of practitioners globally, that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) including mobile phones help in all aspects of peacekeeping and...
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9th Forum on New Technologies of Information & Communication Applied to Conflict
Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, will participate in the 9th Forum on New Technologies of Information & Communication applied to Conflict, from 2 − 3 June 2010 in...
View ArticleRecording of Live seminar on “ICT and Protection: Can Information and...
Click here to access an MP3 recording of Sanjana Hattotuwa’s submission to the web seminar ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?, organised by...
View ArticleRecording of ICTs for Disaster Management High Level Panel discussion at WSIS...
Click here to access the recording of ICTs for Disaster Management, a high level panel discussion at WSIS 2010 on 12 May 2010. The Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Daniel Stauffacher, was a member...
View ArticleRecording of Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on...
Click here to access the recording of Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs, a panel discussion held on 13 May 2010, organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation held at the...
View ArticleICT4Peace Foundation enters into new agreement with Ushahidi to develop...
25 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: During the high-level debate on ‘ICTs for Disaster Management’ and the workshop on ‘Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs’ at the World...
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ICT4Peace Foundation endorses 2010 Global Peace Index
The Global Peace Index, which has just released its 2010 rankings. See them at http://www.visionofhumanity.org. As noted on the website, 149 nations of the world have been ranked by their...
View ArticleInterview on crisis information management at IDRC Global Risk Forum
Click here to watch the video. Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, was part of a panel looking at ICTs and risk management at the IDRC Global Risk Forum held recently in...
View ArticleFinding space for crowd-sourcing in humanitarian response
Originally published here. 05 Jul 2010 13:23:22 GMT Source: IRIN Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the...
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Ushahidi launches Crowdmap
The ICT4Peace Foundation congratulated Ushahidi via email today on the launch of Crowdmap. The Foundation expressed its confidence that the launch of this new platform, based on Ushahidi’s proven...
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Report of the UN Secretary General underscores crisis information management...
Status of implementation of the information and communications technology strategy for the United Nations Secretariat, Report of the Secretary-General (A/65/491) prominently underscores the Crisis...
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United Nations core ICT strategy incorporates crisis information management
As noted in the Foreword by Dr. Choi Soon-hong, Assistant Secretary-General & Chief Information Technology Officer, The goal of the ICT strategy, described in this publication, is to maximize the...
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MoU with Zentrum für Internationalen Friedensdienst (ZIF)
ICT4Peace is pleased to announce, that the Zentrum für Internationalen Friedensdienst (ZIF) in Berlin and the ICT4 have signed an MoU, that will provide a framework for cooperation in the fields of...
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Welcoming UN’s report on the use of ICTs to secure the right to life
A new report released by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, titled the ‘Use of information and communications technologies to secure the right to...
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Guidance for incorporating big data into humanitarian operations
The ICT4Peace Foundation congratulates OCHA on the launch of ‘Guidance for incorporating big data into humanitarian operations‘ by Katie Whipkey and Andrej Verity. The new report is in substance and...
View ArticleLaunch of Peace IT! September 2009
The September 2009 issue of Peace IT!, produced by the ICT4Peace Foundation, Switzerland in cooperation with Crisis Management Initiative, Finland, is available for immediate download here. In this...
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