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| Information and Communication Technology for Peace: The role of ICT in preventing, responding to and recovering from conflict (Stauffacher, Drake, Currion, Steinberger 2005) (pdf) |
| Friday May 11 2007 at 22:00 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
| ICT4Peace reported on Swiss Info (pdf) |
| Monday May 14 2007 at 20:21 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
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. |
| The ICT4Peace Foundation Programme of Work 2007-2008 (msword) |
| Monday May 14 2007 at 20:46 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
The Swiss-government supported ICT4Peace project, after its ground-breaking research and advocacy successes in 2005, has established itself as a Swiss Foundation in Geneva in early 2006. This Foundation will serve as a hub for research, advocacy and networking on the topic of ICT use to prevent, respond to and recover from conflict. |
| Untying the Gordian Knot: ICT for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (msword) |
| Monday Jun 11 2007 at 20:01 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
| Information Communications Technology (ICT) in South Asia, as well as in the rest of the world, is an experiment in progress. Reading the wealth of literature on ICT, it is easy to forget that it is not a panacea for problems facing developing nations. Normative assumptions about ICT tend in most cases to outstrip knowledge of how technology is actually used . ICTs cannot magically liberate people, alleviate poverty, erase the ‘digital divide’ , and ensure prosperity. Much of the literature wr... |
| Daring to Dream: CSCW for Peacebuilding (PPT presentation) (pdf) |
| Monday Jun 11 2007 at 20:07 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
This study will examine research around the areas of Computer Supported Cooperative Frameworks (CSCW) and in particular, the Locale Framework, to examine the possible use and design of ICT systems that can strengthen efforts at conflict transformation. In doing so, the study will examine in particular Groove Virtual Office® (used by Info Share) using the locale framework as an example of a CSCW system in a peace process. PeaceIT! - Second Edition (pdf) |
| Friday Jul 6 2007 at 01:38 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
Published by the Crisis Management Initiative, PeaceIT! aims to further the debate on how to advance the professionalism in preventing, managing and resolving crisis through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). It also advocates the importance of the safety and security issues and information sharing in the field. For more info... |
| ICT4Peace - E-Book (pdf) |
| Sunday Aug 5 2007 at 21:01 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
| A report on ICT4Peace, with a Preface by Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations. |
| Press Release on launch of ICT4Peace inventory wiki (pdf) |
| Tuesday Aug 28 2007 at 18:56 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
For full Press Release, please see here. 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 - A Concept Note and Roadmap (pdf) |
| Monday Jul 23 2007 at 06:27 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
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 - A Concept Note and Roadmap (French) (pdf) |
| Tuesday Sep 25 2007 at 21:04 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
ICT4Peace (Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour la paix) a pour objectif de relever le niveau de performance de la communauté internationale dans la gestion de crise en s’appuyant sur l’utilisation des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Celles-ci peuvent, en effet, contribuer à rendre plus effic... |
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