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| «Le SMS, un vecteur important d'information en temps de crise»
(jpg) 24 March 2008 |
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Foundation Content, French |
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Le Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information (SMSI), dont la première phase s'est déroulée en 2003 à Genève, a été une sorte de révélation pour Daniel Stauffacher, alors ambassadeur pour la Suisse. Prenant conscience du rôle que les technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) ont à jouer pour la prévention des conflits et le maintien de la paix, l'homme se lance, avec l'ancien président finlandais Martti Ahtisaari et quelques autres, dans la création d'une organisation dédiée au sujet. |
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| Why and When to Use the Media for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
(pdf) 3 April 2008 |
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Announcements |
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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 are not necessarily always effective in getting our message across. |
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| Web 2.0 Framework
(pdf) 24 June 2007 |
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New Resources |
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Alongside our corporate strategy consulting and research work in the media and technology space, Future Exploration Network has created a Web 2. 0 Framework to share openly. |
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| We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information
(pdf) 14 May 2007 |
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New Resources |
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We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information By Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis Edited by J. D. |
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| Video of presentation at UN OCHA +5 Symposium
(mov) 26 October 2007 |
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Foundation Content, New Resources |
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Presentation by Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation. . |
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| Use and Abuse of Media in Vulnerable Societies
(pdf) 11 May 2007 |
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New Resources, News and Information |
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In the wake of the deadly and destructive civil conflicts so prominent in the 1990s, aca-demics and practitioners have increasingly focused on predicting and preventing civil con-flict, rather than responding to and recovering from it. Accordingly, there have been variousmethodologies developed to identify societies in which violent conflict is likely to occur,and significant research has been conducted into the root causes of civil conflict. |
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| Untying the Gordian Knot: ICT for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
(msword) 11 June 2007 |
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Foundation Content, Partner Content |
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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. |
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| UN ICT Task Force Series 8: The World Summit on the Information Society: Moving from the Past into the Future
(pdf) 1 October 2007 |
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Foundation Content, Partner Content |
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Edited by Daniel Stauffacher and Wolfgang Kleinwächter, with and opening statement by Kofi Annan and preface by Yoshio Utsumi Any world summit is challenging to design and to organize: the World Summit on the Information Society exceptionally so. This book describes, through the voices of some of its major actors, essential parts of the complex undertaking of the WSIS, from conception to realization. |
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| Training for Peace
(pdf) 29 June 2008 |
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Foundation Content, Partner Content |
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The CCCPA currently trains French, English, Arabic and Portuguese-speaking African nationals in a variety of areas including military dimensions of peacekeeping operations, preventive diplomacy, and legal aspects of peacekeeping operations. Its training programmes target African diplomats, military officers, security personnel and civilians involved in peacekeeping operations. |
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| Towards a new cartography: Mapping a peace process using Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
(pdf) 16 September 2007 |
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New Resources, Partner Content |
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Author: Sanjana Hattotuwa In exploring the possibilities of constructing a mapping process for peace in Sri Lanka, this monograph engages with the theoretical aspects of process mapping and then explores possible ways in which such mapping exercises can be conducted. The author’s research into the creation of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) systems to support negotiations and peacebuilding has fed into this paper, along with his earlier work on systems design for early warning, conflict prevention and the mitigation of communal violence using technology. |
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