INTRODUCTION
The Secretary-General emphasized in his Strategy on New Technologies (2018) the opportunities presented by using digital technologies to accelerate the implementation of SDG 16 and improve the paintings of the peace and protection pillar. With the High-degree Panel appointment on Digital Cooperation, the Secretary-General stressed that the UN has to enhance its inner capacities and deepen publicity of new technologies while growing information, advocacy, and communication around the generation.
Opportunities
As digital generation changes societies, economies, and governance, it may also have a function to play in war resolution. Big data, device studying, crowdsourcing, virtual opinion mining, and different e-analytics tools can decorate the UN’s operational war prevention and peacemaking technique. Data is to be had at an exceptional scale and in actual time. Open facts, social media, and massive statistics offer new entry points for peace and safety tests. Improvements in system learning algorithms and computational energy yield new opportunities.
A major advantage of generation-driven processes is the capability to expand situational consciousness, particularly in settings without the political presence or restrained right of entry. They also offer possibilities to triangulate facts based on empirical statistics. New technological frontiers and artificial intelligence can assist in coming across styles and political traits, screen incidents, and tune community perceptions more successfully and quickly, enhancing the enterprise’s capacity to forecast tendencies.
Challenges
Using facts and techniques for prevention and disaster management keeps standing in technical and operational demanding situations. Limited internet gets the right of entry, and restrictions in warfare zones continue impeding digital sentiment evaluation or opinion mining elements. Data privacy and records sensitivities want to be cautiously considered, while inadequate or manipulated facts can distort analytical conclusions.
There are also limits on the volume to which digital equipment can leverage warfare prevention forecasts and diplomatic efforts. Humans remain key to the new virtual technology.
Finally, because the Secretary-General’s Strategy on New Technologies emphasizes, it’s crucial to maintain a tradition of innovation. Both successes and failures, from publicity to new technologies, are a supply of studying. New technologies and e-analytics strategies will take time to become critical components of labor flows and institutional mechanisms.
About this manual
This guide gives a top-level view of e-analytics in the context of peacemaking and preventive diplomacy. It is rooted in the e-analytics route that the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs has conducted jointly with Global Pulse and various other companions since 2017.
The manual summarizes e-analytics gear and examples from the peace and protection field. It includes a data task planning matrix that aims to help facilitate and motivate information-pushed evaluation. The guide consists of a list of simple terminology related to new technologies.
