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<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua"><EM>A parallel event to be held during the World
Summit on the Information Society at Tunis<BR></EM><BR>Presented by the
ICT4Peace Project (<A
href="http://www.ict4peace.org">www.ict4peace.org</A>)<BR><BR><STRONG><FONT
size=4>ICT for Peace:</FONT></STRONG><BR><BR><STRONG>Book Release
Event</STRONG><BR><BR>Thursday November 17 2005, 13:00-15:00, Saint Augustin
room, the Kram Exhibition Centre</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Please join us for the launch of ICT4Peace report
"Information and<BR>Communications Technology for Peace: The role of ICT in
preventing,<BR>responding to and recovering from conflict" by Daniel
Stauffacher, William<BR>Drake, Paul Currion and Julia Steinberger.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua">The book, which includes a Preface by Kofi Annan,
is being published in the United Nations Information and Communications
Technologies Task Force's book series. It is available now at </FONT><A
href="http://www.ict4peace.org/fs-search/download/ict4peace_ebook.pdf?version_id=9470"
target=_blank><FONT
face="Book Antiqua">http://www.ict4peace.org/fs-search/download/ict4peace_ebook.pdf?version_id=9470</FONT></A><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"> </FONT><BR><FONT face="Book Antiqua"></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua">The launch will be followed by a panel
discussion. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua"></FONT><BR><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"><EM>Moderator:</EM> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Hilary Bowker, former CNN anchor<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua"><EM>Chair:</EM> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua">Ambassador Daniel Stauffacher<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua"><EM>Presentation of report:</EM> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua">William Drake and Paul
Currion<BR><BR><EM>Panelists:</EM></FONT></P><EM><FONT
face="Book Antiqua"></FONT></EM><FONT face="Book Antiqua">
<P><BR>Martti Ahtisaari, Former President of Finland <BR>José Antonio
Ocampo, UN Under-Secretary-General<BR>Raymond Johansen, State Secretary of
Foreign Affairs of Norway<BR>Linton Wells, US Assistant Secretary of
Defense <BR>Dag Nielsen, Director - Ericsson Response <BR>Chamindra de
Silva, Director - Lanka Software Foundation<BR><BR><BR><EM>Topics:</EM> </P>
<P>Early warning - Conflict prevention - Conflict resolution -<BR>Humanitarian
action - Protection of civilians - Peacekeeping missions -<BR>Post-conflict
reconciliation and reconstruction<BR><BR>Questions:
julia.steinberger@seco.admin.ch<BR></P></FONT></BODY></HTML>