Tag archive for : #HackingConflict
The Ultimate Revolution: Nonviolent Information Technologies
By Afra Jalabi We live in a world that is increasingly interconnected– populations around the world are gaining access to education, information technologies and global media. Along with this interconnected … Continue reading
Making Innovation Transformative: Where are the Grassroots Women?
By Diana Sarosi Our task: finding an innovative, disruptive solution that addresses one problem within the realm of UN Security Council Resolution 1325—also known as the Women, Peace and Security … Continue reading
Breaking the Supply Chain of Barrel Bombing
By LtCol AF van Daalen People are responsible for starting and ending (violent) conflicts. This means that influencing actors involved in conflicts is the only way to come to a cessation … Continue reading
Multidisciplinary Teams: Why They Are Needed
By Renée Filiatrault Almost a decade ago I had the chance to witness one of the greatest Canadian partnerships watching my then boss, Minister of Defence Bill Graham and General Rick … Continue reading
Cutting Through The Digital Noise in Ukraine
By Keith McManamen The #HackingConflict #Diplohack brought together six interdisciplinary teams to address the challenge: how can new technologies be leveraged to empower nonstate actors and civil society groups in … Continue reading
Finding Funding for #HackingConflict Ideas
While most hackathon ideas die after the event, we’d like to see #HackingConflict projects succeed. Below is a list of possible funding sources for teams to consider. If we missed … Continue reading
Challenging Teams to Take Ideas Further
By Sarah Saska Throughout my time as a fellow at MaRS Discovery District, Canada’s leading entrepreneurship and innovation hub, I was reminded often that in order to do meaningful work in … Continue reading
Mobilizing Tech in a Time of War
By Kyle Matthews and Nicolai Pogadl Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher of communication theory, wrote in his 1964 book Understanding Media that “all wars have been fought by the latest technology available … Continue reading
#HackingConflict Award Winners
More than 100 participants envisioned ways to use new technologies to help youth caught in conflict at #HackingConflict, a #DiploHack challenge in Ottawa. Six cross-disciplinary teams, bringing students, diplomats, “techies,” … Continue reading
Hacking Away at Conflict
By Philip Bury The big room is filled with about a hundred assorted folk, obviously working hard at something, and most of them clustered in groups of about a dozen … Continue reading