ICT4Peace: An International Process for Crisis Management
ICT4Peace aims to enhance the performance of the international
community in crisis management through the application of information
Communications Technology (ICT) – technologies that can facilitate
effective and sustained communication between peoples, communities and
stakeholders involved in crisis management, humanitarian aid and
peace building. Crisis management is defined, for the purposes of this
process, as civilian and/or military intervention in a crisis that may
be a violent or non-violent with the intention of preventing a further
escalation of the crisis and facilitating its resolution. This
definition covers peace mediation, peace-keeping and peace-building
activities of the international community. In bridging the
fragmentation between various organizations and activities during
different crisis phases, ICT4Peace aims to facilitate a holistic,
cohesive and collaborative mechanisms directly in line with Paragraph
36 of the WSIS Tunis Commitment:
“36.
We value 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.”
ICT4Peace
aims to raise the awareness of and mainstream the Tunis Commitment in
all stages of planning and executing crisis management and peace
operations. Victims of man-made and natural disasters as well as
violent and protracted ethno-political conflict are often severely
disadvantaged on account of existing ICT mechanisms that fail to
adequately facilitate knowledge and information transfers, augment
collaboration and complement multi-stakeholder initiatives.
Wounded Warrior Project
The mission of the Wounded Warrior Project is to honor and empower wounded warriors. “Honoring and Empowering wounded warriors. The Wounded Warrior Project's purpose is 1) to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women, 2) to help severely injured service members aid and assist each other and 3) to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our
society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and
consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense.
EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the
Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront
cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and
consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the
public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
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