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Women, Technology & Partnerships – Countering Terroristuse of the InternetICT4Peace in cooperation with UN CTED and the Secdev Foundation co-hosted a conferenceon “Women, Technology & Partnerships – Countering Terrorist use of the Internet” in Ottawa,Canada. This event was supported by the Government of Canada and CIC National CapitalBranch, and is part of the UNCTED/ICT4Peace current global engagement project working withindustry, and key stakeholders to develop community standards around the prevention of violentextremism online consistent with UN principles, including the Universal declaration of humanrights. The program can be found here.

In the evening a panel discussion on “Women, Violent extremism and the Internet: EmpoweringPrevention” was organised with the following prominent speakers Dr. Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini,Dr. Sheema Khan, Ms. Naureen Chowdhury Fink. The discussion included inter alia the followingpoints: “Women can help prevent violent extremism. Women also commit violent extremist acts.Women can be cheerleaders, and women are often victims. These truths are made morecomplex as more and more women across the globe leapfrog onto the internet. Now more thanever, there is great potential for women to amplify their outreach and impact in preventing violentextremism. But with this empowerment comes increased risk.”

The CVs of the panelists and moderator can be found here.

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ICT4Peace briefing theUN Security Council CTC

On 23 February 2017, Daniel Stauffacherof ICT4Peace, along with Steve Crown ofMicrosoft, Peter Stern of Facebook,Miguel Sanchez of Telefonica and TaraHairston of Kaspersky, provided anupdate to the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in New York on themain findings and recommendations ofjoint UN CTED-ICT4Peace report:“Private Sector Engagement inResponding to the Use of the Internetand ICT for Terrorist PurposesStrengthening Dialogue and BuildingTrust”.

Read more here.

Digital security trainingand social mediaadvocacy in Afghanistan

Sanjana Hattotuwa, a Special Advisor atthe ICT4Peace Foundation, has visitedand trained activists and leading

ICT4Peace Workshop forthe UN GGE Experts:Existing and FutureNorms on InternationalICT Infrastructure andData Integrity

On 20 February 2017 ICT4Peaceorganised a workshop at the Palais desNations in Geneva in support of the UNGroup of Governmental Experts (UNGGE) on Developments in the field ofInformation and Telecommunications inthe context of International Security.

The workshop covered the followingpoints:

In addition to the national CriticalInfrastructure (CI), which has been wellacknowledged as an area and priority ofnational cyber security efforts,international cyber security concernscomprise international infrastructure(such as the Internet infrastructure orshared (trans-national and global)networks). As these issues have notreceived wide-spread attention in theinternational cyber policy discourse, thepanel seeks to bring this topic in moredetail to the attention of the GGEexperts and the internationalcommunity.

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journalists in Afghanistan since 2015.Having visited the country over sixtimes, Sanjana has worked with media todevelop their capacity to report in atimely, accurate and impartial mannerespecially over social media. Sanjana hasworked with Pajhwok, the NAI network,CSOs and NGOs from across the countryas well as academics, journalists andactivists from many Provinces.

Read more about the topics covered andthe training here.

Violent ExtremismOnline: ICT4Peacecontinues work with UNCounter-TerrorismExecutive Directorate

On 31st January 2017, ICT4Peace wasinvited by the United Nations in Genevaand DCAF to discuss our continuing workwith the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (UNCTED) regarding supporting effectivepublic-private capacity building withrespect to countering the use of theInternet and technology for terroristpurposes.

The UNOG seminar focussed on “ViolentExtremism Online – a Challenge to Peaceand Security.” Adam Hadley from

The value of ICT infrastructure, as wellas the risks to it, relate to data that isresident on and transmitted throughnetworks. Many States haveacknowledged and emphasized theimportance of national levelinformation, data and network securityin achieving international cyber security.Recently, authors have pointed out therelevance of data integrity for thefunctioning of the State and society andrelated risks to national andinternational security. The panel willelaborate on data integrity guaranteesand imperatives at international andnational level and discuss what could beadditionally proposed as responsiblesteps to protect the community value ofdata.

The panel discussed also how to bringexisting and new norms and guidelines tothe awareness of States, networkoperators and other stakeholders.

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2016: End of yearreview

The ICT4Peace Foundation, whichcelebrated in March 2016 its 10 YearAnniversary, continued this year its coremission – in cooperation with its many

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ICT4Peace, presented interimrecommendations from Phase 1 of thejoint ICT4Peace-UNCTED project. Toview a copy of the presentation,click here. Other speakers at theseminar included Mark Stephens,Independent Chair of the Global NetworkInitiative, Ambassador Kok Jwee Foo,Permanent Mission of Singapore toGeneva, and Ms Wedad al Hassen, SeniorProgram Associate, Hedayah.

During the seminar in Geneva weemphasised the importance of buildingupon existing efforts that have alreadybeen made regarding developingeffective public-private partnerships incountering the terrorist use oftechnology. We also outlined theeffectiveness of the emerging public-private voluntary framework anddiscussed a number of challenges to beconsidered.

Read more here.

ICT4Peace lecture at theUniversity of St. Gallenon Building anInternationalGovernance for Peaceand Security in

partners – to promote peace andsecurity in cyberspace, through inter aliaefforts to promote norms of responsiblebehaviour and confidence buildingmeasures as well as capacity building, to respond to the use of the internet forterrorist purposes, to prevent violentextremism online, to verify social mediacontent, and to promote better use ofICTs in the domains of refugees andprotection of civilians as well aspeacekeeping and peace buildingoperation.

Read the message in full here.

Workshop onInternational CyberSecurity Policy andDiplomacy for OSCE FieldStaff

ICT4Peace was invited by theOrganisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna toconduct a workshop on 14 and 15December 2016 for OSCE field staff onInformation and CommunicationTechnologies (ICTs) in the context ofregional and international security.

The objective of the training was forOSCE cyber focal points to have a betterunderstanding about: (1)international/regional discussions,efforts and tools to counter the misuseof ICTs as part of promoting internationalpeace and security; (2) the application

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Cyberspace

ICT4Peace’s Dr. Daniel Stauffacher wasinvited to give a lecture atthe University of St. Gallen’s ContextualStudies Master’s Level Course.

As part of the programme ‘Geopoliticslive: Ambassadors tell it all’ DanielStauffacher on 9 December 2016lectured on “ Building an InternationalGovernance for Peace and Security inCyberspace.” In particular he highlightedthe emerging governance frameworks inthe two interlinked areas:

1. Peace and Security in theCyberspace (Maintaining an open,free and peaceful cyberspace;

2. Supporting peace andhumanitarian operations by theinternational community throughthe use of ICTs and new media.

His presentation can be found here.

In his lecture he also reported on thework of ICT4Peace in the area of Peaceand Security in the Cyberspace.

Royal Thai GovernmentRegional Workshop onCybersecurity: Norms inCyberspace

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, theNational Security Council and Ministry ofDigital Economy of the Kingdom of

of international law, norms ofresponsible state behavior as well asconfidence building measures related tocyberspace; (3) potential activities thatcould support efforts to enhance cyber-stability between States and/or reducethe risks of conflict stemming from theuse of ICTs as well as national cyber/lCTsecurity resilience in line with key OSCEcommitments.

Read the full post here.

NEW REPORT: PRIVATESECTOR ENGAGEMENT INRESPONDING TO THE USEOF THE INTERNET ANDICT FOR TERRORISTPURPOSES:STRENGTHENINGDIALOGUE & BUILDINGTRUST

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Thailand had invited ICT4Peace tocontribute to the Regional Workshop onCybersecurity: Norms in Cyberspace forASEAN Countries on 19 and 20 December2016 in Bangkok.

The objective of the two day workshopwas to bring brought discussions aboutnorms in cyberspace and both editions ofthe Tallinn Manual on the InternationalLaw Applicable to Cyber Warfare to theregional context, and to explore possibleimplications on the region and howASEAN Member States can contribute tothe efforts to develop internationallyaccepted norms in Cyberspace.

Read the blog post in full here.

On the occasion of the Special Meetingof the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee held in New Yorkon 1-2 December 2016, ICT4Peace andthe UN Counter Terrorism ExecutiveDirectorate (UNCTED) presented aninitial report on the findings of a jointproject on ‘Private Sector Engagement inResponding to the Use of the Internetand ICT for Terrorist Purposes:Strengthening Dialogue and BuildingTrust’.

The report can be accessed here.

For more details and access tobackground materials, click here.

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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.

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.

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