OCHA +5 Symposium

Global Symposium +5 ‘Information for Humanitarian Action’ took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 22 – 26 October 2007 at the Palais des Nations. Its purpose was to bring together a community of practice on humanitarian information and shared knowledge.

I attended as a Special Advisor of the ICT4Peace Foundation, but the following posts are a collection of thoughts in my individual capacity.

Presentation to the plenary on in my capacity as Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation

• Presentation at UN OCHA +5 Symposium

Thoughts on the Innovation Working Group at +5 Symposium

• UN OCHA +5 Symposium – Where was the innovation?
  
• Innovation in humanitarian aid – Herein lies the future

Ethics and information protection

• Humanitarian information systems: Ethics, information protection and “information DNA”

Peacebuilding, Complex Political Emergencies (CPEs) and humanitarian aid systems design

• Complex Political Emergencies and humanitarian aid systems design

New media and its impact on humanitarian aid

• New media mantras

Other key articles related to +5 Symposium themes

• Technology for humanitarian aid – 6 mantras
  ICT as a tool for Peacebuilding, Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management: Some pertinent questions
• After the deluge : InfoShare’s Response to the Tsunami