Switzerland hopes to help prevent conflicts and promote humanitarian efforts through a new project involving information and communication technologies.

The initial aim of the "ICT4Peace" initiative is to create an online platform for the international community to encourage the sharing of ideas and knowledge.

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The ICT4Peace inventory wiki is one of three key foci of the ICT4Peace Foundation. It will be updated regularly and highlight emerging best practices from the field, significant research initiatives and well-grounded examples of ICT4Peace as defined in the Foundation’s mandate. This will include catalo...

ICT4Peace aims to enhance the performance of the international community in crisis management through the application of information Communications Technology (ICT) – technologies that can facilitate effective and sustained communication between peoples, communities and stakeholders involved in crisis management, humanitarian aid and peacebuilding. Cr...

ICT4Peace: “Strategic use of ICT for Crisis Management” - High-Level Working Lunch, 15th November 2007

The Permanent Representative of Switzerland hosted a High-Level working Lunch, on 15 November 2007. The event was sponsored by the ICT4Peace Foundation with the support of  UN DESA Global Alliance for ICT and Development.

The question of how best to move forward on pre-existing commitments was at the forefront of discussion at the High-Level Working Lunch o...

The following paper - the sixth in a series of studies into issues related to conflict prevention and peacebuilding - therefore sets out how a civil society organization working in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding should deal and interact with the media.

As civil society organizations working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding we have a lot to tell the media, but we...