by John Green Otunga | Feb 28, 2022 | Early Warning, Kenya, Misinformation, Technology, Una Hakika
The Sentinel Project is building a network of like-minded stakeholders to collaborate on preventing and mitigating violence related to Kenya’s 2022 general election. Often seen as a beacon of stability in its region, political upheaval in Kenya can have ramifications...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 6, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Technology
How do we know that something we hear or read is accurate? What conventions or practices help us to establish whether a new piece of information is true or false? What is the harm in repeatedly receiving incorrect information? It seems as though it is becoming harder...
by Nishadi Gunatilake | Apr 24, 2022 | Early Warning, General News, Misinformation, Sri Lanka, Technology
The Sentinel Project ran a pilot misinformation management project in Sri Lanka from July 2021 to December 2021. This article examines the trends and patterns of misinformation observed in 2021 as a result of the project’s monitoring work, summarises some of the...
by Raashi Saxena | Mar 31, 2022 | General News, Misinformation, Women
Gender equity has always been a crucial aspect of the Sentinel Project’s work. This is demonstrated well by misinformation management projects, in which engaging both men and women is essential due to their complementarity in conflict information ecosystems. In...
by Raashi Saxena | Jan 31, 2022 | Conferences, Early Warning, Technology
The Sentinel Project recently organised a workshop at the 16th annual UN Internet Governance Forum held in Katowice, Poland. Our session titled “The Challenges of Online Harms : Can AI moderate Hate Speech?” brought together human rights experts with...
by The Sentinel Project | Sep 30, 2021 | General News, Misinformation
This infographic outlines the general misinformation management process that we use across our projects. Blog #1: How are misinformation, hate speech, and violence linked and what are their consequences? The Sentinel Project has spent a lot of time thinking about...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 31, 2021 | Early Warning, General News, Technology
Building on the extensive work of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Xinjiang Data Project, the Sentinel Project is working to analyze satellite imagery of locations of alleged detention and re-education facilities within the Xinjiang region. These...
by The Sentinel Project | Aug 30, 2021 | Early Warning, General News
In early 2021, three graduate students – Alessandra Mooney, Allie Phillips, and Maddie Warman – from Georgetown’s Conflict Resolution MA program worked with the Sentinel Project to produce a framework for identifying what subnational factors make specific...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 30, 2021 | General News, Situations of Concern, Yemen
This photo of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen by Rod Waddington was available via Wikimedia Commons Although the Sentinel Project does not currently have an active presence in Yemen, the country’s brutal, ongoing conflict is a situation of concern that our team has been...
by The Sentinel Project | Jun 29, 2021 | General News, Kenya
This landscape photo of Kakuma Refugee Camp by Matija Kovac was available via Wikimedia Commons. In March 2021, the Kenyan government issued a 14-day ultimatum to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop a plan to close the Kakuma and...