by Drew Boyd | Jan 14, 2021 | Conferences, General News, Situations of Concern
Open Letter of Concern to Governments on Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against Uyghurs in China January 14, 2021 We, the undersigned human rights and genocide prevention organizations, and individual practitioners, are deeply concerned over mounting evidence...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 31, 2020 | General News, Situations of Concern
The Chinese government is currently implementing a campaign of persecution against the Uyghur minority group in the Xinjiang region using a disturbing system of mass surveillance, concentration camps, forced labour, and ideological “re-education” alongside other...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 9, 2019 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology
The Sentinel Project currently operates Peaceful Truth (www.peacefultruth.org), which is an action-research initiative in Mandalay, Myanmar focused on misinformation management and funded by the International Development Research Centre. Peaceful Truth currently...
by Drew Boyd | May 12, 2017 | General News, Technology
Sentinel has launched a civilian protection pilot project in partnership with at-risk communities in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Called Kijiji Cha Amani (Swahili for ‘peace village’), the project focuses on...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 10, 2017 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology
Since 2015, the Sentinel Project has partnered with Burmese organizations to implement direct co-operation programs with at-risk communities. One such initiative is Peaceful Truth, an effort to combat extremism and prevent the outbreak of violence in the city of...
by Drew Boyd | Dec 14, 2016 | General News, Kenya, Technology, Una Hakika
Nominet Trust, the UK’s leading tech for good funder, has named the Sentinel Project’s Una Hakika? initiative in the 2016 NT100 – a global celebration of this year’s 100 most inspiring social innovations using digital technology to drive social change around the...
by Drew Boyd | Nov 17, 2016 | Burma, General News, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika
The Sentinel Project recently completed a study of information and misinformation in the Mandalay region of Myanmar as part of setting up our Peaceful Truth project. This project grew out of our successful Una Hakika initiative in Kenya, which has demonstrated the...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 24, 2016 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
The Buckminster Fuller Institute has named The Sentinel Project’s Una Hakika initiative as one of its finalists in the 2016 Fuller Challenge. Now in its 9th cycle, the Fuller Challenge remains the only prize program specifically working to identify, catalyze,...
by Drew Boyd | Jul 12, 2016 | General News, Kenya
The Sentinel Project’s Una Hakika initiative has been announced as a 2016 Semi-Finalist in the Fuller Challenge, a prestigious annual competition named “Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award”. Each year, The Buckminster Fuller Institute invites scientists,...
by Drew Boyd | Sep 18, 2015 | General News, Technology
The following article was contributed by Ines Zebdi What is Open Street Map and what is HOT ? Open Street Map (OSM) is a collaborative project aiming to create a free and open map of the world made by volunteers with GPS images, digitizing aerial imagery and...
by Drew Boyd | Aug 10, 2015 | General News, Technology
Article Contributed by Ines Zebdi What is Eurosha ? Eurosha is a European project launched to develop the techniques of Open Source Database and collaborative cartography for humanitarian purposes, using in particular the Open Street Map and Sahana tools. Sahana is a...
by Drew Boyd | Apr 28, 2015 | Conferences
In April 2015, residents of Kenya’s Tana Delta voted. The votes cast were not to elect a new official to political office. Instead, the Una Hakika program wanted to ensure that the direct recipients of its humanitarian programming also had the most direct...
