tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/3463/feed_itemsthomwithoutanh's bookmarks2017-06-05T10:49:57-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22301692017-06-05T10:49:57-04:002017-06-05T10:49:57-04:00"Using ICTs to Reduce Information Uncertainty in Human Rights Research" by Christoph Koettltag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21702302016-04-13T13:54:01-04:002016-04-13T13:54:01-04:00PILPG - Toolkit sampletag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21702212016-04-13T12:32:00-04:002019-08-20T18:56:58-04:00Carr Center Fellow launches Handbook on the Investigations of Gross Human Rights Violations | Carr Center for Human Rights PolicyThe Handbook on the Investigations of Gross Human Rights Violations for Civil Society is a collection of guidelines and best practices for untrained first-respondents confronted with the difficult choice of whether and how to act when encountering information about gross human rights violations and no professional investigative services are immediately available.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21659962016-03-29T12:51:42-04:002016-03-29T12:51:42-04:00The Digital Information Verification Field<p>There are continual developments in the digital information verificationspace, as new initiatives arise, institutions catch onto the opportunities embedded in verification, and the floodof information shows no sign of calming. This is a quickly growing space, and as such, we view this report as a snapshot; no doubt, within the coming years and even months, many more initiatives will arise, more approaches will be explored.Given the relative young age of the field, it is ripe for collaboration on a number of fronts. Diffe</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21637442016-03-24T09:15:11-04:002016-03-24T09:15:11-04:00WITNESS Media Lab | WITNESS Media Lab Verification Resources<h4>A selection of verification tools, guidelines and other resources aimed at those curating online video.</h4>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21611292016-03-18T12:40:29-04:002016-03-18T12:40:29-04:00Webcast: The Future of Human Rights Technology « Benetech<p>The program examined developments such as the use of satellite imagery, drones, and video forensics for monitoring and accountability for human rights violations; the expanding role of citizen witnesses in human rights reporting and advocacy, especially using camera phones and other widely available technologies; and the need to prevent abusive governments from obtaining data gathered by human rights organizations.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21610672016-03-17T06:26:13-04:002016-03-17T06:26:13-04:00Satellite Images: Case Studies - ICTs and Human Rightstag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21610662016-03-17T06:25:45-04:002016-03-17T06:25:45-04:00Chapter 8.pdf<p>So despite the collapsing price of satellite imagery—a non-emergency tasking, which usually gets an image within a week, costs him €350 for a 25 square km image—drones can complement satellite imagery because of their higher resolution, ability to fly below clouds, and greater flexibility in timing</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21610642016-03-17T06:06:29-04:002016-03-17T06:06:29-04:00Human Rights Documentation | AAAS - The World's Largest General Scientific Society<p>Since 2005, AAAS has used geospatial technologies to illuminate on-the-ground human rights concerns, including: mass violence; secret detention; extrajudicial executions; internal displacement; forced evictions; and displacement caused by development projects.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21610652016-03-17T06:06:52-04:002016-03-17T06:06:52-04:00While We Watched: Assessing the Impact of the Satellite Sentinel Project by Nathaniel A. Raymond et al. | Georgetown Journal of International Affairs<p>Assessment:</p>
<p>Through the use of a robust methodology and advanced technology, SSP hoped to change the balance of consequences for both armed actors in Sudan and policymakers around the world. So far, the evidence does not show that SSP met that objective.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21610632016-03-17T05:48:36-04:002016-03-17T05:48:36-04:00How do we select the right approach to documentation? | New Tactics in Human Rights<p>What are the tools available to human rights defenders and how do we know which one is right for our situation? This discussion thread will explore the process of selecting an approach that is the right fit for your documentation goals.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21610622016-03-17T05:43:50-04:002019-08-20T18:57:01-04:00Human Rights Event Detection from Heterogeneous Social Media GraphsSince manual extraction of events from the massive amount of online social network data is difficult and time-consuming, we propose an approach for automated, large-scale discovery and analysis of human rights–related events. We apply our redently developed Non-Parametric Heterogeneous Graph
Scan (NPHGS), which models social media data such as Twitter as a heterogeneous network (with multiple different node types, features, and relationships) and detects emerging patterns in the network, to identify and characterize human rights events.
We present an analysis of human rights events detected by NPHGS using two years of Twitter data from Mexico. NPHGS was able to accurately detect relevant clusters of human rights–related tweets prior to international news sources, and in some cases, prior to local news reports.