Wearable Privacy Law
Stealth Wear by Adam Harvey is an art-project, prototype version of protective clothing, that stops the wearer from being surveilled — or targeted for drone strikes. It has…
Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
Stealth Wear by Adam Harvey is an art-project, prototype version of protective clothing, that stops the wearer from being surveilled — or targeted for drone strikes. It has…
This slideshow presents the project “Advancement through Interactive Radio”, which details ways for community members — especially women — to broadcast radio programs and talk back to them.…
This article details one youth-radio training effort by US activists, going into camps in Palestine to teach young people how to run their own radio programs. As the…
This report by the UN, entitled To Complain or Not to Complain?, highlights the inabilities and challenges for refugees (and other aid-beneficiaries) who hesitate to report sexual abuse…
UNHCR Innovation on Prezi, an August 2012 presentation by Chris Earney on how UNHCR and Refugees
UNHCR Innovation on Prezi, an August 2012 presentation by Chris Earney on how UNHCR and Refugees can use technology to promote social innovation for refugees’ agency & welfare.
My design team is exploring how refugees can be given agency + better access to information through radio technology. There are a few current programs that have been…
The M-Jirga from Colin Rule A presentation by Colin Rule, of Online Dispute Resolution fame, on a concept design for a mobile traditional justice platform. The m-Jirga…
A quick sketched brainstorm of ways that UNHCR and Refugees communication channels could be improved, for my Redesigning the Refugee Experience class.
http://popplet.com/app/#/535625 This is my law/design class’ brainstorm on problems refugees & the UNHCR face in communication. There are many challenges, especially in opening more reliable, trustworthy, & resonant…
Some observations on refugee redesign, with problems and insights about how tech and design could help their communication.
I am trying to compile some best practices of dispute resolution mechanisms inside refugee communities. I’ve found some good leads, including this write-up of design interventions in a…
Frank Smyth at the Committee to Protect Journalists writes about a chat tool, Cryptocat, developed with cryptography protections to give Ease of Use & Strong Protections to those…
One possible redesign of refugee camps from Odin Wright, built around the concept of ancient fortresses. The main motivation is protection from outside incursion, not necessarily welfare of…
an excerpt from an article by Jacqueline Novogratz, on the Huffington Post, highlighting some good redesign elements at a Pakistani refugee camp: We drive north along the old…
Nerd Diplomacy: Google’s Foreign Policy In early 2010, when Google had decided to pull out of the China market, there was a brief window of discourse in which…
There is a team putting together a new platform in which people who work on human trafficking can link up, join forces, and share resources. Interested? Go look…
A 2 page comic on Drones + Privacy.
Apps to Stop Human Trafficking — from NetHope & USAID challenge last summer (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
SlaveFree is an app that lets you scan any product in a store, to see if slave labor likely was used in its production. Slavery Footprint is an…
Out of USC, a September 2011 report “Human Trafficking Online” by Mark Latonero on the role of online social networks in human trafficking. It shows the darker side of…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication is convening actors who are working to use technology to address human trafficking. Some of the projects: From the Center on Communication…
Ethan Zuckerman writes that one way to better protect human rights’ activists content online is by making sure their content is on the same platform/site as the Cute…
What countries in the world are best at providing your online data from governments and from companies? I’m trying to find an excellent map showing where the best…
Mitchell Baker of Mozilla speaks at the Access conference, 10/26/2011 in SF, on Silicon Valley and Human Rights
As designers increasingly take on social problems abroad as thier own wicked problems to design solutions for, the same questions that have been troubling development specialists for the…
More ideas for using tech to improve human rights of political detainees… This is one of my ideas, to create an easy software platform to make ‘human rights…
Making Policy Public brings designers, advocates and policy makers together to produce clear visions of how government, law, and policy work. This PDF provides immigrants with clear…
One of my submissions for Amnesty Intl/OpenIdeo’s call for ideas on – How Can Technology help people working to uphold human rights of in the face of unlawful…
Swedish Development Agency: Internet & Democratic Change The conference will happen on October 26, 2011 — and will be broadcast over the Internet. The topic is net activism,…
