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ICT4Peace and UN CTED are hosting US Launch of GlobalInternet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) in SanFranciscoThe ICT4Peace Foundation and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate(UN CTED) through their TechagainstTerrorism.org Initiative hosted the U.S. launch of theGlobal Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) in San Francisco, CA.

ICT4Peace and UN CTED are collaborating with Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube tosupport the recently-announced industry-led Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism. Tech Against Terrorism is a joint initiative between ICT4Peace and UN CTED, pursuant to UNSecurity Council resolution 2354 (2017) and the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee.

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Cybersecurity andhumanitarianism:Opportunities andchallengesSanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor atthe ICT4Peace Foundation was invited toattend Crisis Code: HumanitarianProtection in the Digital Age, a two-dayconference exploring how crisis-affectedpopulations can be safeguarded fromemerging threats in cyberspace. Theconference was organised by SwissnexSan Francisco.

Sanjana was invited to speak on a panelon Humanitarian Threats in the Age ofCyberwar and to kickoff a workshop onTaking Stock and Making Plans with PeterMaurer, President of ICRC. The panel wasbroadcast live over Facebook, and arecorded video stream can be seen here.In this first panel, humanitarian thinkersand cybersecurity leaders sat together tosynthesize and reframe the day’slearnings, and to explore emergingthreats to civilian populations. The panelwas moderated by Joseph Guay, ThePolicy Lab and also featured EvaGalperin, Electronic FrontierFoundation, Jeff Moss, DEF CON, PaulNicholas, Microsoft and Nathaniel A.Raymond, Harvard University.

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Strengthening media andcivil society capacity inAfghanistanSanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor atthe Foundation, has travelled to Kabul atleast once a year since 2015 at theinvitation of Internews to conductworkshops on strategic communications,social media and digital security with arange of leading mainstream mediaorganizations, journalists and civilsociety activists from around thecountry. The underlying rationale forthese visits is to develop local capacitiesto use new and social media to bearwitness to Afghanistan's contemporarypolitics, society and governance. Thework also strengthens resilience of keyactors within the country to keep doingwhat they do even in the most austere ofcontexts, and is anchored to developingbusiness continuity in the media sector,so that critical operations can continueeven in the face of debilitating violence.

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Digital InvestigativeJournalism in NepalSanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor atthe ICT4Peace Foundation, was invitedby the Centre for InvestigativeJournalism Nepal to support a workshopfor leading journalists from around thecountry in the use of online, social anddigital media in investigative journalism.Sanjana taught two days of a four dayworkshop, and focussed on social mediastrategies for bearing witness to, andcommunicating inconvenient truths, theuse of film, audio and photography inmedia campaigns including in cross-platform investigative stories, and theimportance of social media engagementin a country that now has eight millionmonthly Facebook users alone, leaveaside those on Twitter, Instagram andusing instant messaging apps.

Sanjana's lectures dealt with theory,regional and international examples ofbest practices as well as a lot of hands

ICT4Peace invited byThai Foreign Ministry tochair panel on Fintechand ensuring secure andpeaceful cyberspaceICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher wasinvited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairsof the Royal Thai Government to chair apanel discussion of the “ISU Lecture onCybersecurity: ‘Disruptive Technology –FinTech and its implications on security’on 28 August 2017.

With advances in digital technology, thelandscape of financial services is rapidlytransforming and opens up a window ofopportunities for both service providersand consumers. Today, FinancialTechnology or FinTech is one of thefastest growing industries withinvestment over USD 17 billion in 2016. Anumber of online payment companies,stock investment platforms, and onlineforeign currency such as Bitcoin have

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on, practical exercises around key apps,platforms, services and tools.

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Social Media Fellowship:Review of CVE &strategiccommunications inMyanmarIn April 2017, Sanjana Hattotuwa,Special Advisor at the ICT4PeaceFoundation, was tasked with the designand leading the delivery of a bootcampworkshop for seventeen individuals,comprising of six different teams, fromacross Myanmar, as part of a socialmedia fellowship programmesupportedby Phandeeyar, an awardwinning innovation lab that isspearheading the development ofMyanmar’s tech ecosystem. Readdetails here.

In August, Sanjana was invited back toYangon to work with Phandeeyar toassess the progress of the team at theend of their projects. The two daylessons learnt workshop went throughthe different stages the projects hadgone through, various iterations, thereasons for iterating, the general socio-political context within which theprojects were located in and thechallenges faced by the team inoperationalizing work plans.

flourished and become more prominentthan ever.

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ICT4Peace at JCIInternational Summit onPeace 2017 in Kuching,MalaysiaSanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor atthe ICT4Peace Foundation, was invitedby Junior Chamber International (JCI) fortheir inaugural International Summit onPeace, held in Kuching, Sarawak,Malaysia from 6-8 September 2017.Participants at the conference camefrom over one hundred countries.

Sanjana was asked to facilitate aworkshop titled "Lead by Example: GoodGovernance for Peaceful Societies",which ended up having over one hundredparticipants. Advance planning forfeedback from this number ofparticipants in a very short span of timepaid off - the session was the only one inthe conference to be anchored toaudience feedback via custom GoogleForms, anchored to key issues.

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ICT4Peace addressingGlobal PublicProsecutors Meeting onPeace and Security inCyberspaceICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher wasinvited on 12 September 2107 bythe International Association of PublicProsecutors 22nd Annual Meeting inBeijing to address senior most publicprosecutors of over 170 countries onPeace and Security in Cyberspace.

In his presentation Daniel Stauffacherfirst highlighted the positive effects thatthe internet and information andcommunication technologies includingsocial media have brought to humanityincluding economic and humandevelopment. In particular he describedthe role that Information andCommunication Technologies (ICTs) canplay for peaceful purposes andhighlighted the work that the ICT4Peacehas done in this field since 2004.

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ICT4Peace teaching atETH Zurich Swiss Schoolof Public GovernanceICT4Peace’s Sanjana Hattotuwa andDaniel Stauffacher were invited inSeptember 2017 to lecture at the ETHCertificate of Advanced Studies in PublicGovernance and Administration Course,of the Swiss School of Public Governanceat ETH. Daniel Stauffacher was a guestspeaker and gave an introduction to theemerging Governance of Peace andSecurity in Cyberspace (his presentationcan be found here).

Sanjana Hattotuwa gave a full daylecture on the following topics:

Social media: What is the digitalmedia landscape today and whydoes it matter for governanceBig Data, Open Data & OpenSource Intelligence (OS-INT): Howcan it all aid policymaking?New and neo-cartography: Theworld of web based mapping &implications for citizenparticipation in Early Warning,Disaster Risk Reduction,Humanitarian and ComplexPolitical EmergenciesNavigating a post-factual world:‘Fake news’ phenomenon andvectors, and introduction to socialmedia verification

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ICT4Peace on jury ofResonant VoiceshackathonSanjana Hattotuwa, Special Advisor atthe ICT4Peace Foundation, was invitedto be of the panel of jurists at theResonant Voices Hackathon, held inDurrës, Albania from 14-17 September2017.

The Resonant Voices initiative aims tochallenge extremist narratives in publicdiscourse throughout the WesternBalkans – in particular thosedisseminated online – and to equipcritical voices in the target countrieswith the skills, know-how and resourcesto counter radicalisation, therecruitment of foreign terrorist fightersand violent extremists and otherdangerous trends. It will also empower adiverse group of civil society actors –activists, journalists, bloggers, educatorsand other online (and offline)influencers – to become resonant voices,able to counter violent extremism, topush back against extremist propagandaand to increase and amplify alternative,positive messages.

A detailed note of Sanjana's interactionwith the initial phase of the ResonantVoices initiative, which includedworkshops in five countries in theBalkans, can be read here.

A full list of the ideas and projects the

ICT4Peace and techcompanies working withUN during GeneralAssembly High LevelWeek in New YorkTech Against Terrorism (a joint projectbetween ICT4Peace and UN CTED andthe Global Internet Forum on CounterTerrorism (GIFCT) organised on 18September 2017 an outreach workshopwith and for small and medium size techcompanies at the Facebook offices inManhattan, New York to discussexperiences and best practises on how toprevent the use of ICTs and social mediaplatform for terrorist purposes.

The US launch of GIFCT, created byFacebook, Microsoft, Twitter Youtubeand Google to counter the threat ofterrorist content online, was hosted bytechagainstterrorism.org of ICT4Peaceand UN CTED on 1 August 2017at Swissnex in San Francisco. UK HomeSecretary Amber Rudd and US HomeLand Secretary Duke, Switzerland, Spain,Australia, Republic of Korea, the EU aswell as small and medium size TechCompanies, Think Tanks and academiaparticipated in the US launch in SanFrancisco.

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