ICT4Peace Inventorisation Wiki

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Welcome to the ICT4Peace inventorisation wiki

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 peacebuilding. 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 organisations 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. For more information on ICT4Peace, please read this page.

The ICT4Peace Foundation will over the next year catalogue at least 100 existing ICT tools and mechanisms – operational, legal and conceptual – geared towards conflict mitigation. The inventorisation will include initiatives identified by the report on ICT4peace by the ICT4Peace Foundation, published in 2005, along with more recent examples from around the world in the use of ICT for conflict mitigation using PC’s, mobile phones, the web and the Internet. This wiki will be constantly updated with new information and will is maintained by the ICT4Peace Foundation.

Click on the links below to find out more on ICT4Peace in practice

The Impact of the Internet

Information Dissemination

Networking and Learning

Online Libraries

Early Warning and Conflict Prevention

Web and internet based resources

Operations and Support

Field-based Projects

Operational support

Technical Development

Technical and organisational standards