by Adrian Gregorich | Apr 3, 2017 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika
Between August 2012 and January 2013, the Tana Delta area of eastern Kenya experienced a series of massacres between the Orma and Pokomo ethnic groups. The killings took the lives of an estimated 166 people and displaced tens of thousands from their homes. The...
by Adrian Gregorich | Dec 21, 2016 | Kenya, Una Hakika
An interview with Kode Wario, Una Hakika Community Ambassador In terms of the recent expansion of Una Hakika into Lamu, how will the program be beneficial to the community? In its expansion to the Lamu community Una Hakika shall will be a great benefit....
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 | 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 Christopher Tuckwood | Dec 21, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
After two years of operating the Una Hakika information service, we are ready share our research findings is the “Una Hakika: Mapping and Countering the Flow of Misinformation in Kenya’s Tana Delta” released today. When our team first visited this part of Kenya that...
by Christine Mutisya | Dec 1, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika
Numerous explanations have been proposed for the spread of misinformation in the world. The most common of these rumours are inaccurate or incomplete information or for vested interest. Kenya’s Tana Delta is a region rife with rumours and in the past two years Una...
by Adrian Gregorich | Sep 30, 2015 | Conferences, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika
An interview with Drew Boyd, Director of Operations at the Sentinel Project How has Una Hakika worked with authorities to prevent the spread of rumours that may lead to violence? Drew: Una Hakika set out from the very beginning to plug into as many different and...
by John Green Otunga | Aug 17, 2015 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika
The question of the role of rumours in conflict begs an understanding into their construction, channels of distribution, their velocity, and their believability in the minds of local communities. True to any multi-ethnic community in Kenya, rumours are key in...
by John Green Otunga | Jun 1, 2015 | Conferences, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika
An interview with Una Hakika community ambassador Kode Komora What are the lasting effects of violence in the Tana Delta? I think that ethnic hatred has led to unfair job distribution, based on which tribe is in power. Unstable political development agendas...
by Christine Mutisya | Apr 28, 2015 | Conferences, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
The Una Hakika forum was held on 14th April at iHub in Nairobi. The forum’s intent was to inform stakeholders of Una Hakika’s one year journey from its birth and implementation to challenges faced and future plans. One year down the road we have covered 16 villages,...
by Adrian Gregorich | Apr 17, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika
An interview with the Sentinel Project’s Director of Operations Drew Boyd. We’re used to hearing about drones as agents of death, that since their inception they have often been used for the purpose of violence. Why should people be convinced otherwise? Technology has...
