Business and International Crimes
NSP ICT Tools
NSP ICT Tools
NSP is expanding its use of information and communication technology (ICT) in support of its work in policy formulation and as a facilitator of learning for organisational change. As part of this effort, we have supported the development of innovative tools to enable effective on-line collaboration. The specific objective is to provide a supportive environment that promotes the networking of knowledge and experience among participants in NSP initiatives.
Pax Warrior
A test version of Pax Warrior is now availible on www.paxwarrior.com. There you can check out the pilot programs and be involved in further testing.
Pax Warrior is a simu-doc - a multi-media documentary and political simulation - of a UN Force Commander in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Users make choices, navigating through the extreme situation using a decision web. Presented with possibilities and consequences perhaps not available in the real world, users access a real time research tool to inform their options and explore and exchange true stories of the genocide survivors.
Pax Warrior is the first in a series of "Simu-Docs" to be made available to groups or individuals directly over existing web channels. This interactive model for collaborative conflict resolution will be useful for teachers and students as well as Human Rights and Peacekeeping agencies. Flexible and robust, the core architecture of the program allows for users to collaborate and research in virtual time.
Pax Warrior was built to tell the story of the Rwandan Genocide. And also to act as a networked or web-based program that can be used by a group or a classroom that is concerned about preventing the next genocide and in helping to ensure that the process of justice prevails in Rwanda.
Pax Warrior was created and developed by Andreas Ua'Siaghail, Sean Hopen
+ Jane Somerville, as part of an internship at the Canadian Film Centre's
Bell Habitat New Media Design programme.
The development of Pax Warrior is supported by NSP.
freeText
The first such tool is freeText. freeText allows invited participants to review, comment on and edit a document on the web. The objective of freeText is to permit the review of a moderate sized report or paper without resorting to long descriptive e-mails or annotated fax messages. It is a web-based facility accessible via the Internet using a web browser (such a Netscape or Internet Explorer) which allows people from different countries and organisations, working in different time zones, to collaborate in a secure and private online workspace.