Technology is changing the nature of human rights The Sentinel Project is excited to offer the brand new course Introduction to Technology for Human Rights running for five weeks from 10 June to 14 July 2013. Participants will learn about the relationship between technological tools and human...
We are now ready to launch a visualization of the persecution against the Baha’i community in Iran, our longest standing situation of concern being monitored at The Sentinel Project. Since November we have been using ThreatWiki, a genocide risk tracking and visualization platform to help...
The Sentinel Project has a longstanding interest in the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) to serve humanitarian purposes, especially in defending human rights and preventing atrocities. We have publicized the topic, started to explore the technology, and recruited advisors...
We are pleased to announce that Professor Gregory Gordon of the University of North Dakota has joined the Sentinel Project’s Advisory Council, where he will share his expertise on hate speech and harmful language. For a detailed outline of Professor Gordon’s impressive career, see his...
[Published on behalf of Deborah Durbin] Having just turned 25, it’s time that I take responsibility for my role in global society. My parents give 5% of their income to charity so I am doing the same. There are obviously many worthwhile causes; I have decided to support genocide prevention...
Okay, “welcome” might be a bit presumptuous since we haven’t actually created the Sentinel Hub yet but we’ve got a plan and we’re going to make this happen. So what is the Sentinel Hub, you ask? In short, it will be Canada’s (and possibly the world’s)...
Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the extermination of entire...
At the end of February a small team from the Sentinel Project visited the Tana River District of eastern Kenya as part of our general election observation mission in the country. I had the privilege of serving on that team and want to outline here some of what we did, what we learned, and what...
Last week, on March 4, Kenyans turned out in record numbers to vote for a variety of candidates ranging from local council representatives to the president. Naturally, most attention – including that of the international community – was turned towards the vote for the country’s...
If you’ve been following the Sentinel Project’s social media updates recently, you’ll know that we just concluded our first-ever field work by sending a small team to Kenya, which was the second situation of concern (SOC) that we started monitoring. Abhishek and I returned home...
The Sentinel Project is excited to have former US ambassador Jack Chow, an advocate for humanitarian drones, join us as an advisor. He will be assisting our team as we develop new ideas about these devices and build prototypes in the near future. Many of our supporters know that we’ve had a...
We’re excited to offer our new Human Rights and Technology training course over five weeks (two hours of evening class per week) starting on 15 January 2013. Students will learn the relationship between technological tools and human rights through a combination of theory and real-world case...
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