These last weeks have found our team putting together the front and backend components of the Gin prototype. Our efforts have centred on establishing a single repository on Github, currently administered by Michelle, where Vincent and Leemor’s frontend code has been integrated. We now have a...
As we announced in a recent blog post, Mercyhurst College became our first international student chapter. Their chapter is unique since it will be entirely made up of graduate students from the Intelligence Studies program who will be working as interns for the Sentinel Project. Now Mercyhurst has...
A month ago, Abhishek and I had the great experience of representing the Sentinel Project at Telecom World 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. This annual conference and trade show is organized by the International Telecommunications Union, the United Nations specialized agency for telecom, which also...
We all love our cell phones and electronic devices and the selection of different models has never been greater. They connect us to our friends and family but they also connect us with the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the most dangerous places on earth. The production of our electronics...
Blog Post by Dennis Sithoo Earlier today I was watching a travel show on television where the hosts were visiting Cambodia. They visited an old school that was converted into a detention and torture centre for the Khmer Rouge. The stained floors, rusted relics and memorial photos of the victims...
Blog post written by Rebecca Anne Dixon Mount Allison’s Student Chapter of the Sentinel Project has had an active semester of fundraising and raising awareness about genocide in the Sackville community. Following a successful stint running the coat check at the campus pub, the group set up a table...
Only months after the development of our University Chapters program, we have gone international! Our first International Chapter is at Mercyhurst College, located in Erie, Pennsylvania. Under the direction of Diane Chido, Adjust Professor of Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst and one of SP’s very...
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention is now in its fourth year and it’s time to step up our organizational development efforts. We’ve spent our first three years focusing on technology and research, which drive our Early Warning System and help identify communities at risk of genocide. ...
We are getting near the end of the term and are making progress on Gin! A prototype should be finished by the end of the term! Leemor has been getting in contact with Sisi ni Amani to get specifications of their messages. Vincent has been working on combining django templates and coding up the...
We are 4 weeks into our project, and we are well on our way to putting it together. Vincent and Leemor have been working on different aspects of the frontend. Vincent has been mocking up a rough prototype and also researching the best and most efficient ways to implement the frontend with the...
The Sentinel Project’s second University Chapter (lead by Briana Miller, Rachel Gardner and Rebecca Dixon) is at Mount Allison University! Stay posted to learn more about their plans and events.
UCOSP (Undergraduate Canadian Open Source Project) is a group of Canadian University students who are working on an open source project from different universities. They have joined the Sentinel project to start on a project called GIN (Ground Information Network) which is a technology to improve...
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