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Live Seminar: ICT and Protection: Can Information and Communication Technology Enhance Humanitarian Action?

Started by Nayana Dhavan on 04 May 2010

Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum:A Global Community for Humanitarian Professionals:

Harvard Program on on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research

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Description: This Live Seminar will examine questions and challenges pertaining to the development, use and effects of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in humanitarian activities. Increasingly used by humanitarian professionals in situations of emergency, armed conflicts and disasters, ICT has emerged as a component of effective and sustainable delivery of humanitarian relief. Yet ICT remains relatively under-theorized and utilized differently across contexts. Against the background of the increased use of ICT in humanitarian activities, this Live Seminar will address the following questions:

· How have technological innovations shaped the roles and responsibilities of humanitarian professionals?

· In what ways has ICT affected the selection, collection, and dissemination of conflict-related information?

· What metrics are available to discern the scope and significance of ICT?s effects on coordinating humanitarian aid delivery?

· How has ICT transformed institutions providing humanitarian relief?

These questions will be examined through critical inquiry into recent innovations in ICT, their application, and their (potential) consequences for humanitarian professionals.


The Live Seminar will take place at the following time:

- 9:30 a.m. in Boston (UTC - 4 hours)
- 3:30 p.m. in Geneva (UTC + 2 hours)
- 4:30 p.m. in Amman (UTC + 3 hours)
- 8:30 p.m. in Jakarta (UTC + 7 hours)
- 9:30 p.m. in Beijing (UTC + 8 hours)

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