by Christopher Tuckwood | Jun 21, 2018 | Conferences
Earlier this year, Una Hakika project coordinator John Otunga was selected as the co-winner of the Commonwealth Digital Challenge operated by the Thomson Foundation with funding from the Elizabeth R Media Fund. The competition aimed to provide young and aspiring media...
by Timothy Quinn | May 23, 2018 | General News, Technology
Sometimes we ask for donations. Today we just need your time. Five years ago, we helped launch Hatebase, a tool which NGOs like the Sentinel Project use to monitor incidents of hate speech. Hate speech is a quantifiable, well recognized step that can lead to mass...
by Adrian Gregorich | Feb 18, 2018 | General News, Technology
Humanitarian aerospace is one of the cutting-edge fields in which the Sentinel Project operates, through its subsidiary initiative Sarus Humanitarian Aerospace. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and commonly called drones,...
by Adrian Gregorich | Feb 2, 2018 | General News, Open Positions
As a small organization with limited resources, volunteers have always been critical to the Sentinel Project’s growth. Talented people donating their time, skills, and energy are helping us reach a brighter future. – Christopher Tuckwood, Executive...
by John Green Otunga | Oct 25, 2017 | General News, Kenya, Technology, Una Hakika
Amani FM was established in Tana River County, Eastern Kenya, in the weeks prior to the 2017 August general elections. The key objective of this initiative was promoting peace and tolerance throughout the elections in a region historically known to have deeply divided...
by Adrian Gregorich | Oct 23, 2017 | General News, Technology
Sexual harassment exists everywhere in the world, but so does the determination to end it. HarassMap is an award-winning initiative in Egypt based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 9, 2017 | Conferences, General News, Kenya, Technology
Call for participation: The Sentinel Project has launched a new research project focused on the use of drones for development and humanitarianism in the Global South. We’re looking for people and organizations working with this technology around the world to...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 4, 2017 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
The Una Hakika rumour management system has long been a core part of the Sentinel Project’s work in Kenya. Seeing the negative effects of false information led us to create this mobile phone-based information service but also highlighted the need for other types of...
by John Green Otunga | Aug 9, 2017 | Conferences, Kenya, Technology, Una Hakika
(Continued from Part 1) With all of this in our basket and realising the project’s limitations as a team, we started discussing ways to enhance the existing technology used in our work. This led us to realise the great potential in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles...
by John Green Otunga | Aug 4, 2017 | Conferences, Kenya, Una Hakika
As the twilight begins in a Tana Delta village, someone awakes and steps outside to answer the call of nature. She stops, then turns to run back to her hut, panting and trembling. “I have seen them. Three armed men are crossing our village.” Those few words ignite...
