operationalizing peace operations reform

New technologies and New MediaA few (provocative) thoughts

Sanjana HattotuwaTED Fellow alum | Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation

perceptions, politics, ethics, empowerment

media & temporal diffusion, exponentially

Initial witnessing

+ 1000’s

conversations across geography, timezones, languages, actors, media

discursive terrains

how can you ever respond?

if you don’t even know

IoT & 5G (by 2025)

social witnessingnew eyeballs on violence?

radical inclusioncacophony or concert?

intelligence vs. informationmanaging exclusion, framing inclusion

private and privatisationrevisions of privacy, monetisation of data

new vulnerabilitiesproducers are not owners

new discriminationdata in aggregate can do harm

unpacking empowermentdisruptive can be harmful, new dependencies

informed consent & sunsetsmindful harvesting, careful investing, selectively using

‘birds of a feather, flock together’

digital echo chambers

homiphily

cognitive neuroscientists, social markerters, telcos

not in the room

thank yousanjanahattotuwa@ict4peace.org

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