Insight into the PeaceTech Summit 2018

Digi.City

With its headquarters located within direct line of sight of the Lincoln Memorial and across the street from the Department of State, The United States Institute for Peace (USIP) is an independent institution devoted to the nonviolent prevention and mitigation of deadly conflicts abroad. Nestled within this organization is a small but mighty team of future-facing individuals which comprise the PeaceTech Lab. Led by Sheldon Himelfarb, the Lab "works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peace building efforts." On May 8 and 9th, this team convened technologists, creatives, celebrities, and industry leaders at the PeaceTech Summit 2018 to discuss how technology can be leveraged for the planet's greater good.

Twila LaMarMay 10, 2018PeaceTech Summit, groundTruthComment

PeaceTech is Good for Business

VantagePoints

Disruptions and regional unrest in today’s world have far-reaching implications. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that peace is not just a social ideal, but a necessary condition for international commerce. Dr. Rohini Srihari is Chief Data Scientist at PeaceTech Lab, housed at the United States Institute of Peace. Her work has spanned the areas of artificial intelligence, multimedia information retrieval, computational linguistics and text mining. Dr. Srihari spoke with us regarding a multi-purpose technological solution she has developed that delivers critical data for international business and peacebuilding. This technology is called groundTruth, and it provides not only real-time monitoring of disruptive risks across the world, but also historical trends and predictive forecasting across a multitude of factors.

Twila LaMarApril 13, 2018groundTruth, dataComment

5 Q’s for Rohini Srihari, Chief Data Scientist at PeaceTech Lab

Center for Data Innovation

The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Rohini Srihari, chief data scientist at PeaceTech Lab, a peacebuilding nonprofit based in Washington, DC. Srihari discussed the importance of data in peacebuilding and how nonprofit startups are adopting strategies from the private sector.

Twila LaMarMay 8, 2017OSRx, groundTruth, dataComment

Profits of Peace

Worth Magazine

When the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, rolled into Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, in June 2014, the Iraqi soldiers garrisoned there dropped their guns, discarded their uniforms and fled. ISIS warriors seized abandoned weapons, including reportedly six American-supplied Black Hawk Helicopters, and piles of cash stored in banks.

Twila LaMarApril 19, 2016PeaceTech Summit, Sheldon Himelfarb, ISIS, Channels TV, PTX, groundTruth, OSRx, Iraq, data, peacetech, Terrorist Attacks StorymapComment