[WSIS CS-Plenary] Tunis Parallel Event: ICT for Peace Book Release, Thursday 17th

[William Drake]

A parallel event to be held during the World Summit on the Information Society at Tunis

Presented by the ICT4Peace Project (www.ict4peace.org)

ICT for Peace:

Book Release Event

Thursday November 17 2005, 13:00-15:00, Saint Augustin room, the Kram Exhibition Centre

Please join us for the launch of ICT4Peace report "Information and
Communications Technology for Peace: The role of ICT in preventing,
responding to and recovering from conflict" by Daniel Stauffacher, William
Drake, Paul Currion and Julia Steinberger.  

The book, which includes a Preface by Kofi Annan, is being published in the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force's book series.  It is available now at http://www.ict4peace.org/fs-search/download/ict4peace_ebook.pdf?version_id=9470 


The launch will be followed by a panel discussion.   


Moderator: 

Hilary Bowker, former CNN anchor


Chair: 

Ambassador Daniel Stauffacher


Presentation of report: 

William Drake and Paul Currion

Panelists:


Martti Ahtisaari, Former President of Finland 
José Antonio Ocampo, UN Under-Secretary-General
Raymond Johansen, State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Linton Wells, US Assistant Secretary of Defense 
Dag Nielsen, Director - Ericsson Response 
Chamindra de Silva, Director - Lanka Software Foundation


Topics: 

Early warning - Conflict prevention - Conflict resolution -
Humanitarian action - Protection of civilians - Peacekeeping missions -
Post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction

Questions: julia.steinberger at seco.admin.ch

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