This is an excerpt from Interim Report: Stocktaking of UN Crisis Information Management Capabilities that can be downloaded in full from here. The authors strongly feel it is timely for the UN System as a whole to address, at a strategic level, issues of crisis information management and technology best practice and interoperability – to [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Interim Report: Stocktaking of UN Crisis Information Management Capabilities
Sanjana Hattotuwa and Daniel Stauffacher From October 2007 to February 2008, representatives from the ICT4Peace Foundation met informally with a number of high-level representatives at key agencies based at the United Nations in New York in preparation for a stocktaking exercise on crisis information management capacities and best practices. These meetings with heads of agencies, [...]
Mobile GPS for location tagged micro-blogging?
I’ve been using Google Latitude in the US to plot my movements, wondering how powerful this technology is and can be in the future – for example, the potential for the system to auto-generate way-points on Google Maps, with links to Facebook / Picasa photos and YouTube videos all uploaded from the mobile. The accuracy [...]
Internet and Web based Citizen Journalism in Sri Lanka
Background paper to a workshop on Citizen Journalism I’m organising in the near future. Full paper with references as a PDF from here. Many less radical institutions – governments, NGOs, think tanks – are struggling to address the same challenge, unable to respond to the rapidly shifting balance of power between the individual and the [...]
Citizen journalist satire through Banyan News Reporters
In a recent post here I noted that, In light of a Government unable and unwilling to investigate violence against journalists and independent media, satire is one way in which violent events, processes and individuals can be held up for public scrutiny more frequently. Banyan News Reporters on Groundviews has taken off quite well and [...]
Blackberry reporting in real time
For a couple of hours last Friday night and into the wee hours of Saturday morning, my Blackberry enabled me to communicate to the world what I saw happening around me in Sri Lanka almost in real time. An email sent to friends concerned for my safety was sent to Sree Srinivasan at the South [...]
Tamil politics, “human rights extremists” and humanitarian crises: Web discussions trump MSM?
Groundviews has over the past month alone exclusively published thought provoking content that has explored facets of violence and a cataclysmic humanitarian disaster. Featuring a wide range of critical voices from NGOs, Government and the diaspora Groundviews is priviledged to host some of the most compelling content and discussions on the current situation in Sri [...]
BitTorrent traffic on Mobitel HSPA flows unhindered
As with SLT ADSL, BitTorrent traffic on Mobitel’s HSPA connection flows through unhindered. Read the Glasnost test report here. I tested this on a Zoom 890 HSPA package.
BitTorrent traffic on Dialog Wimax partly hindered?
Dialog Wimax strangely seems to limit BitTorrent uploads on some ports. Test results through Glasnost available here. I ran this on Dialog’s OfficeNet+ package. Earlier test with SLT ADSL posted here, which incidentally does not limit uploads or downloads.
