A Big Night in Ottawa: Launching a Magazine and a Working Group
It was a big night for us yesterday in Ottawa. In cooperation with the Canadian International Council (CIC) National Capital Branch, we hosted a special Intelligence...Read More
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Al Araby Features SalamaTech’s Launch of “Be Heard” Online Portal
This article contains edited excerpts of the original article. For the original Arabic article click here. SalamaTech’s own Basel Mattar was featured on Al...Read More
Whither the Internet? A Digital.Report Interview with Rafal Rohozinski
Digital.Report recently sat down with our own Rafal Rohozinski to discuss a broad range of issues affecting the internet, such as government control, privacy and the...Read More
How a 25-Year-Old Brought Free Wi-fi to his Georgian Village
In Georgia, it isn’t just the telecommunications giants building the internet. Sometimes creative solutions are needed in this small mountainous country in the Caucasus. The...Read More
Why We Must Count the Human Cost of War
By Robert Muggah for the World Economic Forum The economist Paul Collier famously argued that wars are development in reverse. The human costs are certainly devastating, resulting...Read More
Brazil’s Cybercrime Problem
By Robert Muggah and Nathan Thompson for Foreign Affairs Featured Photography By Paulo Whitaker / Reuter Brazil is at the epicenter of a global cybercrime wave. The country ranks...Read More
From Syria to Sudan: how do you count the dead?
Estimating the human toll of war or humanitarian crisis is a vital job, but no one can quite agree on how to do it By...Read More
Announcing the Chong Hack Facebook” Campaign
The SecDev Foundation launched an important online safety campaign in Vietnam. The “Chong Hack Facebook” campaign promotes the use of two-factor authentication to protect against...Read More
Vietnamese high school publishes ‘Facebook rules’
A secondary school in Vietnam’s Thai Binh province has published a list of six guidelines on Facebook behaviour for its students. Thanh Nien Online reports the...Read More
The Rising Threat of Organised Crime on Social Media
Originally published by The World Economic Forum Even as the digital revolution kicks into gear, there are signs everywhere of governments using new technologies to...Read More
SalamaTech featured in prominent Syrian e-magazine: Zaman al-Wasl
Zaman Al-Wasl, a Syrian independent news website, interviewed a member of the SalamaTech team and published an article (in Arabic) that highlights SalamaTech’s role in assisting Syrians...Read More
Antoine Nouvet Speaks to The Washington Post About an ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Twitter account
Our research associate Antoine Nouvet recently spoke to the Washington Post about a mysterious Twitter account that claims to be ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. The Twitter account...Read More
What Happens at a #DiploHack…Is Posted on Twitter
Article by Jessica Pichard • Header Image by Throne Photography Ottawa was abuzz last week as over one hundred participants undertook Canada’s first-ever #HackingConflict Challenge. On...Read More
Fixing Fragile Cities
Solutions for Urban Violence and Poverty Originally published in Foreign Affairs By Robert Muggah In the decades to come, the city, not the state, will...Read More
Put Justice at the Heart of Global Development: Inclusive development depends on both freedom from want and freedom from fear
Originally Published in OpenCanada The future of global development policy is being hotly debated in New York over the coming months. Governments from 193 countries are...Read More
The Syrian Opposition Is Disappearing From Facebook
Originally Published in The Atlantic Social media was one of the first refuges for Syria’s non-violent activists. Now they’re getting kicked off. Hunched over a coffee...Read More
A Responsibility to Reform
By Robert Muggah for OpenCanada The paralysis over Syria is yet another sign of the dysfunction within the United Nation’s Security Council. The Council is supposed to prevent large-scale violence...Read More
The drug war debate must change. Canada can help.
By Robert Muggah for The Globe And Mail Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week visited Colombia and Peru, two of the most productive economies in Latin...Read More
A Massive Drug Trade, and No Violence
Originally Published in The Atlantic Peru is the single largest producer of cocaine in the world. It’s also an incredibly safe country. Peru is the single...Read More
Taking Security Seriously: Considerations for the High-Level Panel
Originally Published in openCanada The post-2015 development agenda will shape the direction of aid policy and practice for decades. And for the selected goals to...Read More