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REGISTER TODAY: 3rd International Conference of Crisis Mappers

The ICT4Peace Foundation, the Swiss Confederation and the European Commission’s Joint Research Center are pleased to announce and invite you to participate at the 3rd International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) in Geneva from 14-15 November 2011. Sponsors include the World Bank. More details regarding registration for ICCM 2011 will be available soon.

The purpose of ICCM 2011 Geneva is to bring together the most engaged practitioners, scholars, software developers and policymakers at the cutting edge of crisis mapping to address and assess the role of crisis mapping and humanitarian technology in crisis response. Following the myriad of responses to the Haiti 2010 earthquake, the crisis mapper community is fanning out into new domains. A number of reports highlight a great deal of excitement over the potential of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), new and social media as well as crowd-sourcing to strengthen planning and delivery of aid.

There are, however, outstanding and pressing questions over reliability, replicability, sustainability as well as assumptions over the design and application of these new tools and platforms. Some of these concerns have led to the establishment of the stand-by volunteer force by the crisis mapping community and integration of new platforms into existing institutional infrastructure and workflows. At the same time, crisis mapping solutions are being picked up by the mainstream media as an integral part of reporting, for example, during flooding in Sri Lanka and Australia, the crisis in Libya and the earthquake in Japan. Furthermore, we are seeing the growth of local community led efforts, e.g. in the Kibera slums of Nairobi and on-going work in Haiti to use these new tools for long-term development.

Issues on the limitations of crisis-mapping, for example in the Sudan referendum, the recent North-African uprisings and related socio-political, cultural and economic sensitivities are being actively discussed. The Geneva Region is the host of a large number of UN Agencies and other Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs and business companies engaged in humanitarian operations, which are helping to determine or shape the operational needs for which the crisis-mapping community will be able to develop and deliver cutting-edge products and services in the future.

We hope you will be able to join us in Geneva for what promises to be a most stimulating and action-oriented conference! 

Click here to read more on our website. 

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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. 

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 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. 

You are getting this update from the ICT4Peace Foundation because you share our belief that ICTs can and do help in conflict prevention, early warning, recovery and mitigation. Please visit www.ict4peace.org for further information.

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