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| How can Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Support the Peace Movement? An Investigation into the Resurgence of the Peace Movement in Australia (pdf) |
| Monday May 14 2007 at 20:53 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
By Trewhella, D International Conflict Resolution Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Australia This paper primarily investigates the function and effectiveness, present and prospective, of information and communication technologies in the peace movement in Australia. It also considers the nature and objectives of the peace movement itself. The research primarily draws on available literature and interviews with activists and academics orientated toward peac... |
| Online Technology for Social Change: Front Struggle to Strategy (pdf) |
| Monday May 14 2007 at 20:55 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
Online Technology for Social Change: Front Struggle to Strategy In late 2005, the dotOrganize team1 embarked on an unprecedented effort to map the current state of online technology in the social change sector. Over nine months, dotOrganize gathered input from more than 400 social change groups, technology providers, and nonprofit technology capacity builders. dotOrganize designed its surveys and interviews to identify what organizers need to support their work, what to... |
| We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information (pdf) |
| Monday May 14 2007 at 21:03 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information
By Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis |
| Improving NATO-NGO Relations in Crisis Response Operations (pdf) |
| Monday May 14 2007 at 20:44 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
Author(s): Laure Borgomano-Loup |
| Daring to Dream: CSCW for Peacebuilding (pdf) |
| Thursday May 17 2007 at 04:55 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. |
| Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics (pdf) |
| Thursday May 17 2007 at 04:59 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
| Social Informatics is the body of research that examines the design, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies in ways that take into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. This article serves as a brief introduction to social informatics. Examples such as computer networks, scientific communication via electronic journals, and public access to the Internet are used to illus... |
| Appropriating the Internet for Social Change (pdf) |
| Thursday May 17 2007 at 05:02 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
| As civil society, we are confronted with an opportunity – to use the Internet and other emerging network technologies to support our quest for global peace and social justice. Consider that we currently live in a world where almost anyone located in an urban centre can share their message globally with a free blog and a few dollars spent at an Internet café. Access is not– or will not for much longer be – a major communi... |
| The New Terrorism (pdf) |
| Thursday May 17 2007 at 05:50 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
Today, fighting against terrorism has become the facetious couture of a seemingly bi-polar world which is either “with terrorists or against them”. Rhetoric and actions that claim to wipe and root out terrorism often disguise a vacuity in some of anti-terrorism’s greatest exponents, who, like weathervanes in a storm, like to self-importantly spin and rattle largely in a world of their own imagination. Root causes of terrorism are often i... |
| Humanitarian IT with Open Source: A Case Study on Disaster Management (pdf) |
| Wednesday May 30 2007 at 01:29 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
Authors: Chamindra de Silva, Sanjiva Weerawarna, Jivaka Weeratunga The Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka on December 26th resulted in a massive outpouring of support for the relief of the nearly one million people that have been affected by it. When literally thousands of people from every conceivable multilateral organization and from many other places arrived here to help, it became clear immediately that without information technology it would be impossible to coordinate their efforts to ma... |
| The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report (pdf) |
| Wednesday May 30 2007 at 01:46 by ICT4Peace Foundation |
The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries. Studies of the ICT policy situation in twenty-two countries from four regions are featured: Africa (Democratic Repu... |
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