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The document discusses ICT4peace work during and post-war in Sri Lanka. It notes some ongoing issues like violence against independent media and lack of reconciliation. It outlines key challenges for ICT in peacebuilding like ensuring technology empowers local communities. Examples are given of the author's work in Sri Lanka like platforms for peace negotiations and monitoring elections, disasters, and human rights. Future opportunities and challenges are discussed around technologies like mobile, broadband, and ensuring focus remains on process over platforms.
Presentation to SMU class
- 1. ict4peace: facets of work during and post-war Sanjana Hattotuwa TED Fellow 2010 Founding Editor, Groundviews, www.groundviews.org
- 2. sri lanka
- 3. systemic problems • Post-war violence and repression still present • Violence against independent media and limited space for critical dissent • Legacy of 30 years of war: Communal distrust, no reconciliation, no political settlement, continued militarisation, national security mindset, repressive government, on-going self-censorship, poor rule of law, unconstitutional governance
- 4. ict4peace | key challenges
- 5. The appropriate use of ICTs, in line with culture and context, aids adoption, adaptation, buy-in and sustainability.
- 6. ICT in peacebuilding needs to be self-effacing. ICT must build social capital, and invest in societal frameworks that empower local communities to grapple with conflict in non-violent ways. Technology itself should not be the cynosure, but what is achieved through it.
- 7. As ICT4Peace develops, there is a need to develop more effective cultures of collaboration based on mutually accepted and independently verifiable virtual markers of trust. The ability to conduct critical discussions in virtual spaces whilst being assured of the confidentiality of shared content.
- 8. Inadequate vernacular content / UI design Lack of Internet connectivity / infrastructure / bandwidth / latency Lack of or transient human resources A pervasive and incipient culture of secrecy, with the abysmal levels of mutual trust Intricacies of ethno-political conflict
- 9. my work from sri lanka
- 10. one text peace negotiations platform http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/one-text-negotiations-and-collaboration-platform-in-sri-lanka
- 13. monitoring human rights violations http://www.slideshare.net/yajitha/infoshare-sri-lanka-technology-for-social-transformation
- 15. helping CSOs and NGOs use social media http://www.vimeo.com/cpa
- 16. helping CSOs and NGOs use social media http://www.twitter.com/cpasl
- 17. helping CSOs and NGOs use blogging platforms http://www.llrcarchive.org
- 18. helping rural communities leverage new media http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/from-community-radio-to-internet-radio-mobiles-and-narrow- casting-new-models-for-enduring-needs
- 19. archiving sri lanka’s history http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com/about
- 20. new ways of story-telling http://www.movingimages.asia
- 21. groundviews: civic media that bears witness http://www.groundviews.org
- 22. groundviews: civic media innovation, 1st iBook http://groundviews.org/2012/02/07/the-end-of-war-in-sri-lanka-reflections-and-challenges-released-as- ibook
- 23. groundviews: civic media innovation, 1st iPhone app http://groundviews.org/iphone-app/
- 24. groundviews: civic media innovation, Long Reads http://groundviews.org/category/issues/long-reads
- 25. groundviews: civic media innovation, Archiving http://groundviews.org/category/issues/long-reads
- 26. groundviews: civility guidelines online http://groundviews.org/submission-guidelines
- 27. the future is anchored to and underpinned by • Geo-location, geo-fencing and geo-referencing • New media and Web 2.0 technologies, including social networking • Mobiles, and especially smart(er) phones • Broadband, especially wireless • Interoperable ODR systems / data-portability initiatives
- 28. the enduring challenges will be • New media savvy repressive governments • Privacy controls, in the age of Facebook • Contest between culture and context, actors and process, physical vs. virtual • Engendering the political will to transform complex conflict • The emphasis on the process, as opposed to the technology - people as opposed to the platform • Bearing witness during violence
- 29. thank you