Lecture to SMU | ICTs in peacebuilding

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Sanjana Hattotuwa!!TED Fellow 2011 Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation

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colombo vigil, 12 april

7pm3.30pmiMessage

Twitter

WhatsApp

SMS

7.30pm Groundviews (blog)

Bundlr

SoundCloud

11pmYouTube

updates via iMessage

iMessage to Twitter (real time)

real time twitter conversations

colombo vigil, 12 april

colombo vigil, 12 april

colombo vigil, 12 april

colombo vigil, 12 april

readers across media, under 48 hours

• Facebook : 12% of 82*342 = ~3,365

• Twitter : 44*126 = 5,544

• Blog post : 4,620

• SoundCloud : 599

• Bundlr : 4,100

• Conservative minimum reach of blog post: 18,200 (excluding email, RSS)

network diffusion

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conversations across geography, time, disciplines, actors, media

my work from sri lanka mediation, conversation, reconciliation, transformation

one text peace negotiations platform, ~2003

one text peace negotiations platform, ~2003

bearing witness to injustice new media for social justice

helping rural communities leverage new media addressing justice and grievances at village level

maps

monitoring election violence http://cmev.wordpress.com/maps

monitoring disasters http://groundviews.org/2011/02/05/google-map-on-flood-affected-areas-in-sri-lanka-february-2011

bearing witness to alleged war crimes http://groundviews.org/2012/09/12/the-end-of-war-in-sri-lanka-captured-for-posterity-by-google-earth

bearing witness to alleged war crimes http://groundviews.org/2012/09/18/sri-lankas-forgotten-mass-graves-google-earth-and-remembering-the-dead-in-nandikadal/

facebook & social media

Facebook Groundviews fan page https://www.facebook.com/groundviews

Facebook Groundviews fan page https://www.facebook.com/groundviews

Facebook polls http://groundviews.org/2011/03/31/world-cup-cricket-aiding-reconciliation-in-sri-lanka-fact-or-fiction/

Groundviews on Twitter @groundviews

Groundviews on Flipboard @groundviews

arts, tech & culture

moving images http://www.movingimages.asia

mediated http://groundviews.org/2012/08/24/mediated-portraying-hard-data-on-sri-lanka-through-art/

30 years ago http://www.30yearsago.asia

archiving (the inconvenient)

llrc media and submission archive http://groundviews.org/llrc-media-coverage-and-submissions/

archiving sri lanka’s history http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com/about

#hrc22 http://groundviews.org/2012/11/02/uprlka-complete-tweet-archive-and-related-visualisation-around-sri-lankas-upr-review/

Flip flop http://groundviews.org/2009/08/25/bearing-witness-submit-content-on-idps-and-police-brutality-to-win-a-flip-ultra-video-camera/

failure

Flip flop http://groundviews.org/2009/08/25/bearing-witness-submit-content-on-idps-and-police-brutality-to-win-a-flip-ultra-video-camera/

technology will influence outcomes whether by design or ignorance

the future is anchored to and underpinned by

• Geo-location, geo-fencing and geo-referencing / location awareness

• Drones & UAVs for peacebuilding, human rights protection and humanitarianism

• The Internet of things

• Life-logging

• The next billion on smartphones

Thank you

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