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Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation, was part of a panel looking at ICTs and risk management at the IDRC Global Risk Forum held recently in Davos, Switzerland. The so-called Red Chair interview was an opportunity for panelists and speakers to briefly share their thoughts on video. Sanjana’s submission was recorded just after the conclusion of a panel on ICTs in disaster and crisis management, anchored to the following... continue reading

The ICT4Peace Foundation's latest crisis information wiki focuses on the emergency in Kyrgyzstan. This unique curated wiki already includes vital information from the UN system in Kyrgyzstan, NGOs, the World Bank, comprehensive briefings on the situation, situation reports, mapping information and data, photos, video, who/what/where information and links to domestic and international media coverage on the turbulent situation.

Other Crisis Information Wikis and research by ICT4Peace Fou... continue reading

The ICT4Peace Foundation organised a panel discussion at the WSIS 2010 event in Geneva on 13 May anchored to the topic Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs.

The ICT4Peace Foundation organised a panel discussion at the WSIS 2010 event in Geneva on 13 May anchored to the topic Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs.

Haiti is seen as a turning point in the use of ICTs in Crisis Management but many lessons remain unheeded f... continue reading

  The Global Peace Index, which has just released its 2010 rankings. See them at http://www.visionofhumanity.org. As noted on the website, 149 nations of the world have been ranked by their peacefulness and the results have stimulated some very interesting analysis.  Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador of Switzerland & Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation and Maria Cattaui, former Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, former Managing Director, World Economic Forum have endorse... continue reading

25 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: During the high-level debate on 'ICTs for Disaster Management' and the workshop on 'Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs' at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) FORUM 2010 held in May, the ICT4Peace Foundation was pleased to announce a new phase of support for the Ushahidi crisis information management platform.Ushahidi is a prime example of a new generation of crowd-sourced crisis information management tools th... continue reading

27 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland: The ICT4Peace Foundation is very pleased to announce that Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation has been selected as a 2010 TEDGlobal Fellow for his outstanding achievements.The TED Fellows programme recognises and brings together those who have shown significant accomplishment and exceptional courage in their lives and work. It helps world-changing innovators from around the globe amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activit... continue reading

Click here to access the recording of Getting it Right in Crisis Management: Going beyond the hype on ICTs, a panel discussion held on 13 May 2010, organised by the ICT4Peace Foundation held at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) 2010. 

All the recordings from WSIS 2010 are available here. You will need RealPlayer to view these files. Panel descriptionHaiti is seen as a turning point in the use of ICTs in Crisis Management but many lessons remain unheeded from previous disast... continue reading

Click here to access the recording of ICTs for Disaster Management, a high level panel discussion at WSIS 2010 on 12 May 2010. The Chairman of the ICT4Peace Foundation, Daniel Stauffacher, was a member of this panel. His presentation begins at 1 hour 8 minutes into the panel discussion. All the recordings from WSIS 2010 are available here.

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ICTs play a critical role in disaster predication, monitoring, and dete... continue reading

Click here to access an MP3 recording of Sanjana Hattotuwa's submission to the web seminar ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?, organised by the Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum at Harvard University and held on 12 May 2010. Sanjana is a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation.

This Live Seminar examined questions and challenges pertaining to the development, use and effects of Information and Communications Technolo... continue reading

The ICT4Peace Foundation organised and facilitated a closed door roundtable meeting in Geneva, on 13 May 2010, to discuss the Crisis Information Management (CiM) strategy in general and how the response to the Haitian earthquake earlier this year informs progress on issues such as the creation and availability of core datasets and interoperability.

Participants included experts, academics and leading practitioners from Ushahidi, Microsoft, UN OCHA, UNHCR, WHO, Crisis Management Initiati... continue reading