The Foundation promotes cybersecurity and a peaceful cyberspace through international negotiations with governments, companies and non-state actors.
[4] The way early warning systems help reduce the human cost of earthquakes, ICT-based platform can help save lives during natural or man-made disasters, said ICT4peace founder, Daniel Stauffacher, former Ambassador and Special Representative of the Swiss Government for the first phase of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS 1), which took place in Geneva in 2003.
Subsequently WSIS 2 in The Tunis Commitment for the Information Society adopted para 36 and valued "the potential of ICTs to promote peace and to prevent conflict which, inter alia, negatively affects achieving development goals.
[8] In October 2006, under the Communities of Expertise (CoE) established within the framework of the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (also known as Global Alliance for ICT and Development or GAID), the ICT4peace Foundation was invited to a partnership with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and GAID.
[11] The CiMS aims at helping all actors, including the UN’s member states and agencies, in dealing with all stages of a crisis lifecycle more efficiently and effectively.