Lecture to Southern Methodist University on ICTs in peacebuilding, delivered in March 2014.

1. ICTs today
Sanjana Hattotuwa
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TED Fellow 2011
Special Advisor, ICT4Peace Foundation

2. find | know | share | show

3. colombo vigil, 12 april
7pm3.30pm
iMessage
Twitter
WhatsApp
SMS
7.30pm Groundviews (blog)
Bundlr
SoundCloud
11pm
YouTube

4. updates via iMessage

5. iMessage toTwitter (real time)

6. real time twitter conversations

7. colombo vigil, 12 april

8. colombo vigil, 12 april

9. colombo vigil, 12 april

10. colombo vigil, 12 april

11. 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)

12. network diffusion
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conversations across geography, time, disciplines, actors, media

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

14. one text peace negotiations platform, ~2003

15. one text peace negotiations platform, ~2003

16. bearing witness to injustice
new media for social justice

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

18. maps

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

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

21. 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

22. 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/

23. facebook & social media

24. Facebook Groundviews fan pagehttps://www.facebook.com/groundviews

25. Facebook Groundviews fan pagehttps://www.facebook.com/groundviews

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

27. Groundviews on Twitter@groundviews

28. Groundviews on Flipboard@groundviews

29. arts, tech & culture

30. moving imageshttp://www.movingimages.asia

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

32. 30 years agohttp://www.30yearsago.asia

33. archiving (the inconvenient)

34. llrc media and submission archivehttp://groundviews.org/llrc-media-coverage-and-submissions/

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

36. #hrc22http://groundviews.org/2012/11/02/uprlka-complete-tweet-archive-and-related-visualisation-around-sri-lankas-upr-review/

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

41. failure

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

43. technology will influence outcomes
whether by design or ignorance

44. 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

45. Thank you
www.ict4peace.org