Sanjana Hattotuwa

Speaker profile

Sanjana Hattotuwa
Special Advisor

An Ashoka, Rotary World Peace and TED Fellow alumn, Sanjana has for over twelve years explored and advocated the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to strengthen a just peace, reconciliation, human rights and democratic governance. He set up and curates the award winning Groundviews, Sri Lanka's first citizen journalism website. Teaching new media literacy, web activism, digital security and online advocacy in Sri Lanka and internationally. Since 2006, Sanjana is also a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. Through the Foundation, Sanjana works to further the use of ICTs in crisis information management and peacekeeping initiatives at the United Nations.