Paper on Strategic use of ICTs in Disaster Management by Lieutenant General (Retired) Deepak Summanwar, presented at Responsibility to the Future - Business, Peace, Sustainability organised by the Strategic Foresight Group in Mumbai, June 2008. 

The ICT4Peace Foundation was a knowledge partner at this event. 

Download the paper here. 

On behalf of the Crisis Management Initiative, IASCI is conducting a research project related to information management and sharing in crisis response situations. IASCI is contacting fellow practitioners from key institutions and agencies to canvas their expert views and experiences regarding information systems and features of utility, and to learn about primary information gaps and constraints. If you are professionally familiar with crisis response, either from the field or management pers... continue reading

The ICT4Peace Foundation's ICT4Peace Wiki is now featured in the Communication Initiative's website . 

Cairo, Wednesday 18 June 2008 – Today, the Cairo Regional Centre for Conflict Resolution and Peace-keeping in Africa (CCCPA) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will launch a project, funded by the Government of Japan, to strengthen the capacity of CCCPA as a regional and international centre of excellence in the vital area of peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Africa.H.E. Assistant Foreign Minister and Director of... continue reading

Crisis Management Initiative has published the first issue 2008 of "Peace IT! Using ICTs to prevent, manage and resolve crises". The journal aims to further the debate on how to advance the professionalism in preventing, managing and resolving crisis through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). You will find it attached in this mail, but you are also able to find the journal online at the CMI website (www.cmi.fi). In this issue, there is an update on the recent develo... continue reading

The ICT4Peace Foundation will conduct a Roundtable on ICT Technologies for Peace-building and Crisis Management on Friday, June 27, 2008, 11:30-13:00, Nehru Centre, Mumbai as part of the Responsibility to the Future: Business, Peace and Sustainability conference organised by the Strategic Foresight Group.

Responsibility to the Future: Business, Peace and Sustainability is organised in partnership with the ICT4Peace Foundation.

Roundtable on ICT Technologies for Peace-building an... continue reading

Special Advisor of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Sanjana Hattotuwa, chaired a panel on Online Dispute Resolution and Peacebuilding at the 2008 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution held in Victoria, Canada from 18 - 19 June 2008. 

The Forum has as its purpose the bringing together of the world's leading practitioners, academics, theorists, and online negotiation application developers, to share information, and to create a vehicle for ODR education.

The Forum in Victoria... continue reading

An adaptation of the essay by Daniel Stauffacher and Sanjana Hattotuwa, ICT for disaster management in least developed countries and small islands in the Asia Pacific Region, that is published in the official Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book on behalf of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

The Book is the Secretariat’s primary communications tool to promote opportunity and potential within the 53 Commonwealth countries and is distributed to all Key Commonwealth Ministers, from Trade to... continue reading

Authors: Daniel Stauffacher and Sanjana Hattotuwa

Originally written for UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)

Disaster management is an imperfect science. It is impossible to accurately predict when and where a disaster will occur. Yet efforts towards drawing up national and regional disaster risk management strategies have encountered significant challenges. Studies show that the problem lies not with the use and adoption of technology per se, but with the more e... continue reading

The United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation’s Access to Communications Publication Series produces studies that give governments, NGOs and the private sector research and recommendations on how to use techno... continue reading