We will be picking up on some of the conversations started last year at RDF Manila, as well as tackling emerging questions related to the use of technology and data in human rights documentation.
The app was developed by Cocoalabs, an Indian software firm, and is supported by the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) in the Philippines, a HURIDOCS project partner.
The Responsible Data Forum is a collaborative effort to develop useful tools and strategies for dealing with the ethical, security and privacy challenges facing data-driven advocacy.
Announcing the final nominees of the 2014 Martin Ennals Award: Cao Shunli, Adilur Rahman Khan and Alejandra Ancheita.
A summary of what we learned at RightsCon 2014, and what we contributed to the largest conference on human rights and technology.
We join the Day We Fight Back to protest mass surveillance and to demand the protection of our human rights.
Why privacy matters, how it is compromised – introducing an initiative to protect it better in the digital age.
As state surveillance and web monitoring become more prevalent, human rights groups should take extra precaution while using the Internet. Many web tools exist that making hacking and monitoring more difficult, although tools alone will not make you safe. One that does help human rights groups quite a bit is called Tails, a live operating system you run from your USB.
A short reflection on participating in the Open Society Human Rights Workshop, Manushak also shares her presentation about what she as learned as an intern at HURIDOCS.
Handling information effectively, using its potential to maximize the impact of advocacy – this is a serious challenge, and one that Janet Haven of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) has been working on for almost a decade. In this interview she talks about why she is convinced this is important, how she is constantly looking for new ways to measure the impact of this work and the progress made so far by working together with organizations like HURIDOCS.