For as long as I’ve been building web apps, it’s been apparent that most successful websites are communities – not just interactive pages, but places where groups of like-minded people can congregate and do things together. – Aaron Swartz, in A unified Theory of Magazines (September 2006) Aaron Swartz was committed to make the world […]
We are happy to announce that we have received six months of support from the Prototype Fund, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, to improve the way human rights organisations analyse document collections by combining human expert knowledge with machine intelligence. Currently, we are able […]
Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay! – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Like Sherlock Holmes, human rights defenders rely on data to draw conclusions for their advocacy work. In this spirit, ShareLab and Tactical Tech organised the Data Investigation Camp to share skills, tools and methodologies, and build a community able to critically […]
