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UK Peace Technology Forum
The UKPTF is an initiative taken in response to the tragedies and refugee crises arising from war confict and post conflict zones around the world. We provide a forum to develop, promote, implement and share peace technologies along with the know-how to apply them different conflicts.
We're a recently established forum that aims to deliver reliable solutions to people and communities in conflict zones. Our services provide people with unique peace
technology solutions to facilitate and enable peaceful coexistance of communities.
UK Peace Technology Forum provides cost-efficient solutions that simply make good sense.
Through peace technology initiatives professionals in information technology, computer science, and engineering, as well as telecommunications, geo- informatics and design come together with activists, NGOs and other social actors, to develop tools that address political and social issues.
This field of work is constantly evolving but current tools and trends in peace tech include:
- Information and Communication Technologies - ICTs can be mobile phones used for surveys, crowdsourcing platforms used to gather real-time data from witnesses, or social media tools used to announce, organize, and report on protests, elections, and movements.
- New Media - digital, text, photo, and video content that individuals generate through social media applications and platforms, and submit through the Internet or mobile devices. New media is used to monitor developments as they unfold, hear a range of voices, and share attitudes and mobilize people to act on important issues and events.
- Big Data – data available online used to create early warning and early-response systems, conflict and crisis mapping networks, and real-time feedback for monitoring and evaluation efforts.
- Crowd Sourcing – outsourcing of specific tasks to an undefined public - used to monitor elections, protests, movements, conflicts, natural disasters, and peace processes, turning everyday civilians into voluntary information gatherers and providing organizations with eyes and ears in the field.
- Online Mapping - Online mapping allows one to collect and analyse data linked to a specific geographic area and track movement. Online maps are used by peacebuilding professionals to track the spread of conflict, monitor elections, and coordinate responses to natural disasters across different locations over time.
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