I participated in some great discussions - one on one and in groups - on the issue of trust in humanitarian aid. Trust was seen not just as a artefact of the information ecosystem, but also as a perception amongst those the systems is introduced to. Trust was seen in many different ways - as a protocol and point to point security measure by system designers, as a mutable construct by practitioners and as a complex, dynamic set of social rules coded into humanitarian systems by others. I've explored some of the issues that came out of these discussions in two blog posts. Is technology neutral?

Back in Sri Lanka after Strong Angel III and thought of writing some observations I had on the exercise. See Strong Angel III - Final observations for the full post. Sanjana Hattotuwa

One of the most powerful visual memories of SA III I have is seeing the Second Life sim designed for SA III demonstrated live on site. I've blogged about this and the serious uses of the Second Life platform here.

There's a number of podcasts I've done with several leading participants at SA III here - http://ict4peace.wordpress.com. Also check out http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/strong-angel-iii for other posts on SA III.

Didn't know quite where else to post this, but here's an interview that I did with Internews who are part of SA III -

More SA III posts here - http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Wrote this post - - based on some observations on the http://strongangel.nga-earth.org/ site launched in the afternoon today.

Sanjana Hattotuwa