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Updates on using tech for peacebuilding & peacekeeping
UN Crisis Information Management Advisory Group(CiMAG) retreat looks at Ebola response
ICT4Peace was again invited by ASG UN Chief Information Technology Officer Ms. Atefeh Riazito organise again the UN Crisis Information Management Retreat (CIMAG) 2015. The themes ofthis year’s retreat were as follows:
1. An introspection of the UNMEER / UN Ebola response, interrogating in particular theadoption of Crisis Information Management (CiMS) principles to strengthen collaborationand coordination in the response efforts
2. A retrospection of CiM efforts of the UN since Haiti 5 years ago, ending with UNMEER, tounderstand what’s changed and what remain key challenges.
3. Moving forward, develop concrete recommendations for the UN top Management on howdata and technology can be better leveraged within the UN system and beyond tomanage humanitarian crisis such as Ebola.
Approximately 30 Information Management Specialists from the UN Secretariat, UNOrganisations responsible for Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Operationsparticipated on 8 and 9 June in Manhattan New York Meeting (UN OICT, OCHA, WHO,DPKO/DFS, UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank,UNOSAT, UNMEER, UNHCR, UN OCC, UN DPA, UN DPI, UNGlobal Pulse).
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ICT4Peace on StrategicCommunications in UNPeace OperationsICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher wasinvited by the US Institute for Peace andFolke Bernadotte Academy to participatein a Challenges Forum workshop onStrategic Communications in UN PeaceOperations on 23 June 2015 inWashington DC.
The Agenda of the workshop can befound here, and Daniel Stauffacher’spresentation here.
The main points of the Foundation’sinput, the concept and content of whichwas fleshed out by Sanjana Hattotuwa,Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation,can be summarised here.
ICT4Peace at UNIDIR
Welcoming UN's reporton the use of ICTs tosecure the right to lifeA new report released by the SpecialRapporteur on extrajudicial, summary orarbitrary executions, Christof Heyns,titled the ‘Use of information andcommunications technologies to securethe right to life‘ strongly resonates withthe ICT4Peace Foundation’s work,training and output over the years tomainstream the use of technology inpeacebuilding and human rights.
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WSIS + 10 ICT4Peace atUN General Assemblyinteractive hearing onWSISThe ICT4Peace Foundation is honoured
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Cyber StabilityConference in GenevaICT4Peace was invited by The UnitedNations Institute for DisarmamentResearch to participate in its 2015 CyberStability Conference entitled “RegimeCoherence” on 9 July 2015, Palais desNations, in Geneva, Switzerland. TheAgenda you find here.
This year’s conference aimed to supportdiscussions on how current and futurenorm-setting cyber initiatives can becoordinated to further the developmentof a pragmatic global approach to cyberstability and avoid being in unintentionalconflict with one another. Theconference brought togetherstakeholders from the Geneva diplomaticcommunity, cyber industry, and capital-based policymakers to discuss andexplore ways in which the cybercommunity can better align strategicgoals, and promote a stable and securecyber environment.
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Report of CrisisInformation ManagementAdvisory Group (CiMAG)2015 Retreat
to have been invited to speak at the UNGeneral Assembly on the importance ofthe emerging ICT tools, includingtraditional and new media for supportingactors working in peace operations,peace building, humanitarian responseand the protection of fundamentalrights.
ICT4Peace’s President, DanielStauffacher participated at the WorldSummit on the Information Society(WSIS) – UN General Assembly interactivehearing on 2 July 2015 at the UN in NewYork, and delivered the followingstatement.
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ICT4Peace supports thesafe, coordinated andeffective use ofhumanitarian drones(UAVs)
ICT4Peace participated in TheHumanitarian UAV Network (UAViators)recent 3-day Policy Forum onHumanitarian UAVs at the RockefellerFoundation in Bellagio Italy. The purposeof the Forum was to draft guidelines forthe safe, coordinated and effective useof UAVs in humanitarian settings.Sanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor,ICT4peace, is a founding Board memberof UAViators.
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Led by the UN’s Office of Informationand Communications Technology (OICT)and organised by the ICT4PeaceFoundation, the 2015 Crisis InformationManagement Advisory Group (CiMAG)meeting was held on 8th and 9th June inNew York.
Representatives from OICT, OCHA,UNOCC, ICTD/DFS, UN Global Pulse,UNHCR, DPKO-DFS, UNDP, UNHCHR,UNOSAT, UNICEF, WFP, EOSG, UNDP andDPA participated along with, on thesecond day, representatives from theDataPop Alliance, Nethope, the DigitalHumanitarian Network, World Bank,MapAction, Centre for Disease Control(CDC) and What3Words. Ambassador PerThöresson, Sweden, ASG UN CITO Ms.Atefeh Riazi, Dr. David Nabarro, formerUN Special Envoy on Ebola and UNMEERSRSG Peter Graaff also participated byvideo-conference in the workshop.
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ICT4Peace Presentationat OSCE in Vienna onCapacity Building forInternational CyberSecurity Negotiations
In Bellagio, UAViators brought together across-section of experts from the UNOffice for the Coordination ofHumanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UNRefugee Agency (UNHCR), UNDepartment for Peacekeeping Operations(DPKO), World Food Program (WFP),International Committee of the RedCross (ICRC), American Red Cross,European Commission’s Humanitarian AidOrganization (ECHO), Medair,Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, ICT forPeace Foundation (ICT4Peace), DJI,BuildPeace, Peace Research Institute,Oslo (PRIO), Trilateral Research, HarvardUniversity, Texas A&M, University ofCentral Lancashire, École PolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),Pepperdine University School of Law andother independent experts.
Five key sets of guidelines were drafted,each focusing on priority areas wherepolicy has been notably absent: 1) Codeof Conduct; 2) Data Ethics; 3)Community Engagement; 4) PrincipledPartnerships; and 5) Conflict Sensitivity.
These five policy areas were identifiedas priorities during the firstHumanitarian UAV Experts Meeting, co-organized at the UN Secretariat in NewYork by UAViators and OCHA and co-sponsored by ICT4Peace.
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Daniel Stauffacher, President ofICT4Peace Foundation, was invited on 20July 2015 by US Ambassador to the OSCEDaniel Baer, Chair of the OSCE InformalWorking Group (IWG) on ConfidenceBuilding Measures in Vienna, to addressparticipating States on the work ofICT4Peace on cyber/ICT security, and inparticular on its training course forDiplomats on Cybersecurity Policy andDiplomacy. The Program of the informalworkshop can be found here.
Daniel Stauffacher’s presentation can befound here.
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Another Year, AnotherGGE? The slow processof norm building forcyberspaceThe latest report of the UN Group ofGovernmental Experts (GGE) concernedwith “Developments in the field ofInformation and Telecommunications inthe context of International Security”)was published in July 2015 (see UNGeneral Assembly A/70/174)
Peacekeepers in the Sky:The Use of UnmannedUnarmed Aerial Vehiclesfor Peacekeeping
The ICT4Peace Foundation is pleased torelease ‘Peacekeepers in the Sky: TheUse of Unmanned Unarmed AerialVehicles for Peacekeeping‘, authored byHelena Puig Larrauri and Patrick Meier.
The use of surveillance technologies bythe UN may at times be politicallyunpopular among those UN MemberStates that fear technologies like UUAVswill inevitably compromise theirterritorial and political sovereignty. Infact, arguments against the use of UUAVssometimes resemble arguments againstthe “Responsibility to Protect” normadopted by the UN General Assembly in2005 as a framework for justifyingmilitary intervention as a last resort toprotect civilians from mass atrocities.This admittedly narrow set of concerns is
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The group was comprised of expertsfrom some twenty states and chaired byBrazil. Its work, conducted over thecourse of 2014 and 2015, built on theoutcome of earlier GGEs, notably the2013 one, in which experts agreed onthe applicability of existing internationallaw and norms of state behaviour tocyberspace and state uses of ICT and arange of voluntary capacity, confidenceand cooperative measures movingforward. The 2014-2015 was tasked withstudying the issues further, particularlyhow international law and other normsof behaviour apply in practice.
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ICT4Peace contributes toExpert-Workshop on theGerman Government’s"White Paper 2016 onCyber Security On 17 September 2015, ICT4Peace wasinvited to participate in an Expert-Workshop “White Paper 2016 on CyberSecurity“ in Berlin, Germany, hosted bythe Federal Ministry of Defence, theUniversity of the Federal Armed ForcesMunich and the Federal Association forInformation Technology,Telecommunications and New Media(BITKOM). In preparation of the drafting
not always an issue; they can varygreatly based on the context of a givenpeacekeeping operation.
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ICT4Peace at New YorkCyber SecurityRoundtable of MunichSecurity Conference(MSC) How can basic cyber norms be developedthat democracies, authoritarian statesand various non-state actors alike deemuseful and necessary? Is an arms controlframework for cyberspace plausible atall and, if so, what could it look like?How can global cyber governance beimproved, and what role can and shouldprivate actors play in this effort? Seniorexperts, business leaders and politiciansfrom EU and NATO member statesdebated these and other questions at anMSC Cyber Security Roundtable in NewYork on September 8. The roundtableunder “Chatham House Rule” was co-hosted with Microsoft and took place incooperation with the East-West Institute(EWI).
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of its White Paper 2016, the GermanGovernment organised this inclusive andcomprehensive consultation process,involving multiple actors from theGerman Bundestag, different Germanministries, academia and think tanks,international partners and institutions aswell as the general public. A summary ofthe proceedings can be found here.
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Guidance forincorporating big datainto humanitarianoperationsThe ICT4Peace Foundation congratulatesOCHA on the launch of ‘Guidance forincorporating big data into humanitarianoperations‘ by Katie Whipkey and AndrejVerity. The new report is in substanceand form, a wonderful achievement anda timely one around a topic what wasonce, not too long ago, peripheral at
ICT4Peace participatesin UN Summit onSustainableDevelopment in NewYork ICT4Peace is honoured to have beeninvited by the President of the UNGeneral Assembly, Mr. Mogens Lykketoftto participate in an interactive panel on“Building effective, accountable andinclusive institutions to achievesustainable development” during theUnited Nations Summit Summit for theadoption of the Post-2015 DevelopmentAgenda.
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ICT4Peace: Smart Use ofICT, the Internet andUniversal AccessImperative for SuccessfulImplementation of theSDGs On 27 September 2015 ICT4Peaceparticipated in the UN Summit on theadoption of Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for
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best and a dark science to most. Openand big data is now centre and forwardin humanitarian and aid operations.OCHA has much to be credited for thisevolution.
In 2012, the ICT4Peace Foundationreleased The potential and challenges
of open data for crisis information
management and aid efficiency: A
preliminary assessment thatprefigured, already many years ago, thesame opportunities and challengesoutlined in the recent OCHA report, fromthe perspective of open data in theservice of humanitarian aid.
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Sustainable Development, andcontributed to the Interactive DialogueSession on building effective,accountable and inclusive institutions toachieve sustainable development, co-chaired by H.E. President MichelleBachelet (Chile) and H.E. President ParkGeun-hye (Korea). ICT4Peace’s DanielStauffacher’s full statement can befound here.
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ICT4Peace CybersecurityPolicy and DiplomacyWorkshop for ASEANcountries in SingaporeHosted by the Government of Singapore,ICT4Peace, in cooperation with RSIS, isorganising a cybersecurity policy anddiplomacy course in Singapore (19 – 20October 2015) for the ASEAN Countries.Invited to participate are Diplomats,Government Officials and a limitednumber of academics andrepresentatives of Think Tanks from theASEAN Countries. The participants willbe familiarised with the ongoing global(e.g. UN GGE), regional (e.g. OSCE, ARF,AU, OAS) and bilateral cybersecuritynegotiation processes. They will acquirea deeper understanding of the mostimportant areas of diplomatic
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negotiations for a secure and opencyberspace, such as the application ofinternational law for Cyberspace, normsof responsible state behaviour as well asconfidence building measures in thecyberspace. An exercise will be carriedout to test and deepen theunderstanding of the topics presented.
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ICT4Peace took root with pioneering
research on the role of ICTs in
preventing, responding to and
recovering from conflict in 2003 and
lead to the adoption of Paragraph 36
by the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in
2005 which recognises “...the
potential of ICTs to promote peace
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Download a report on the use of Information and Communications
Technologies for peacebuilding (ICT4Peace), with a Preface by Kofi
A. Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations here. An
updated version of this report, with critical analysis on current
policies and practices of ICTs in peacebuilding and crises was
published in early 2011. Published in collaboration with the Berkman
Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and
GeorgiaTech, Peacebuilding in the Information Age: Sifting Hype
from Reality can be read here.
and to prevent conflict which, inter
alia, negatively affects achieving
development goals. ICTs can be used
for identifying conflict situations
through early-warning systems
preventing conflicts, promoting their
peaceful resolution, supporting
humanitarian action, including
protection of civilians in armed
conflicts, facilitating peacekeeping
missions, and assisting post conflict
peace-building and reconstruction".
The ICT4Peace Foundation works to
promote the practical realisation of
Paragraph 36 and looks at the role of
ICT in crisis management, covering
aspects of early warning and conflict
prevention, peace mediation,
peacekeeping, peace-building as well
as natural disaster management and
humanitarian operations.
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