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In addition to providing a sustainable means of communication, internet exposed peacebuilders from both communities to global information. The fact, for example, that within a few minutes, one could access first-hand information on most recent issues (e.g. EU-Cyprus relations, Palestinean-Israel disputes etc.) or read about the mission and activities of all types of organizations (e.g. Peace Centers, funding organizations, government agencies etc. world-wide). | In addition to providing a sustainable means of communication, internet exposed peacebuilders from both communities to global information. The fact, for example, that within a few minutes, one could access first-hand information on most recent issues (e.g. EU-Cyprus relations, Palestinean-Israel disputes etc.) or read about the mission and activities of all types of organizations (e.g. Peace Centers, funding organizations, government agencies etc. world-wide). | ||
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===Training=== | ===Training=== | ||
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# [[Technology for Peace: Phase 3]] | # [[Technology for Peace: Phase 3]] | ||
=== | ===Infrastructural Activities=== | ||
In a | ====Electronic Archives (web pages) and Strategies==== | ||
In a series of workshops, the various bicommunal groups created their web pages giving a profile of their work and activities and creating a virtual meeting and promotion place. This entailed: | |||
* Designing the electronic base for their home page with a great range of sub-pages reflecting the entire spectrum of their bicommunal activities and | * Designing the electronic base for their home page with a great range of sub-pages reflecting the entire spectrum of their bicommunal activities and | ||
* Adding the relevant textual-literary content for their pages. | * Adding the relevant textual-literary content for their pages. | ||
This process involved a combination of computer experts designing the electronic base of the | This process involved a combination of computer experts designing the electronic base of the Tech4Peace internet page(s) working together with active representatives of the various bicommunal groups who provided and prepared all the relevant information for the content. The objectives were: | ||
The | |||
# Design all the essential pages to be prepared, and their electronic-thematic interrelationships, involving all the relevant persons representing the corresponding areas i.e. Archives of past conflict-resolution workshop results, a magazine section hosting articles on peace, policy scenarios for peace, a record of past bicommunal and peace events, announcements of upcoming events, a "library" of book lists on peace related issues, a page presenting official political documents of the two sides side-by-side including UN documents, a section on imaginative post-solution, news bulletins, etc., a creative ideas section, etc., etc. | |||
# Designing the electronic base for the server that would host the page(s), and their interactive relationships, mostly by people versed in technical matters, graphic designers etc. | |||
# Compilation of the content materials, classifications, and uploads. There existed a mass of material, ideas and projects which were scattered and essentially unknown and inaccessible to the public and interested parties. | |||
# Developing an on-line web-based system, which would permit the members of the various bicommunal groups to re-vote, thus changing their votes on certain questions based on changes in the real political arenas and the changing broader political environment of the Cyprus problem. The Interactive Management methodology introduced by Professor [[Ben Broom]] in Cyprus had been used to develop the first bicommunal vision maps, obstacle maps and options map. With this tool, Tech4Peace wanted to not only have a stationary picture of the three maps, but also a dynamic one that would reflect the changing phases that the Cyprus problem was going through. That would in essence provide a picture of how bicommunal consensus changes in time due to external factors (i.e. political environment, economic changes, crisis events, development of the peace movement etc.). Furthermore, the system would allow any Cypriot citizens from anywhere in the world to participate in a collective map, thus contributing to a Cypriot Bicommunal Peoples' Vision Map. This objective has not been achieved to the present day. | |||
===Workshops=== | |||
====Training practically all Bicommunal Groups to use internet==== | |||
Two-day workshops to train key representative members of all bicommunal groups in using Internet and Technology For Peace Facilities, such as group e-mail, the TFP Virtual Negotiation Program etc. to facilitate their peace promoting work and coordinate their activities using Cyberspace. | Two-day workshops were organized to train key representative members of all bicommunal groups in using Internet and Technology For Peace Facilities, such as group e-mail, the TFP Virtual Negotiation Program etc. to facilitate their peace promoting work and coordinate their activities using Cyberspace. | ||
====Cultivating a cyberspace culture and publicizing of activities==== | |||
In a series of small workshops, | In a series of small workshops, Tech4Peace identified, designed and developed the electronic base for Web Pages for each bicommunal group. Each group was encouraged and trained to assume responsibility in designing, developing using and promoting their own cyber office. | ||
====Publishing information==== | |||
Tech4Peace contributed in the collecting of content information on activities and work of all the bicommunal groups and up-loaded it on its Web Pages. It also provided continuing technical support and technical advise to all groups. | |||
==Interns== | ==Attracting Interns from across the globe== | ||
Many international students have been attracted to work as interns for the Technology for Peace project. Among them, most notable were: | Many international students have been attracted to work as interns for the Technology for Peace project. Among them, most notable were: | ||
* [[Akihiro Sando]] | * [[Akihiro Sando]] |