New Media Part 1/9

New media
Part 1/9

Focus session at the Global Humanitarian´s annual forum 2009

2-3:30pm, 23 June, 2009

The humanitarian benefits of latest developments in internet technology and telecommunications are only beginning to be recognized. Hurricane Katrina and other emergencies have demonstrated how the user-defined online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, can act as an unparalleled source of up-to-date information on such disasters. While portable phones with imagery devices offer the ability to discretely document atrocities and emergency situations. How will the role of such technologies expand over time? And how can the humanitarian system take better advantage of their benefits?
With interactive presentation by

Don Tapscott, Author, Wikinomics; Chairman, nGenera Insight

Nitin Desai, Member, Prime Ministers Council on Climate Change, India; Special Adviser to the UN for the World Summit on an Information Society

Wijayananda Jayaweera, Director, Communication Development Division, UNESCO

Bill McKibben, Co-Founder and Director, 350.org

Florence Nibart-Devouard, Member, Advisory Board, Wikimedia Foundation; Chair, Wikimedia (2006-2008)

Daniel Stauffacher, Chairman, ICT4Peace Foundation; Ambassador of Switzerland to the UN (1999-2005)

Moderated by Cyba Audi, Al Arabiya/MBC

In kind partnership with nGenera

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Don Tapscott
• Nitin Desai
• Wijayananda Jayaweera
• Bill McKibben
• Florence Nibart-Devouard
• Daniel Stauffacher
• Cyba Audi
• global
• humanitarian
• forum
• new media
• geneva
• kofi annan