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
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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
A fine balance: Mapping cyber (in)security in Latin America
Latin American governments are worried about criminality in cyberspace. Like all regions around the world, Latin America is experiencing an information revolution. Internet usage is...Read More