by The Sentinel Project | May 23, 2024 | General News, Team Announcements
Volunteer with the Sentinel Project and start impacting lives today! Your contribution can help us achieve our mission and make a meaningful difference. We believe that everyone has something unique to offer, and we are excited about the diverse range of talents and...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Sep 30, 2020 | Conferences, General News, South Sudan, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
We recently expanded our Una Hakika misinformation management project to Kakuma Refugee Camp and nearby areas of northwestern Kenya. Our goal is to support refugees and host communities in stopping the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation that contribute to...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 8, 2019 | General News, Hagiga Wahid, Situations of Concern, South Sudan, Team Announcements, Technology, Uganda, Una Hakika
“A refugee heard that someone back in South Sudan had come with soldiers to kill his family so he prepared his community to go and fight the people in another camp and take revenge on the perpetrator’s community.” Reported to the Sentinel Project team in...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Oct 26, 2018 | Conferences, General News, Team Announcements, Technology
Do you speak multiple languages and want to help build a more hate-resistant world? If you answered “yes” then we need your help with improving our ability to monitor hate speech around the world. We need native speakers of various languages (see below) 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 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 Adrian Gregorich | Jul 22, 2016 | Conferences, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
On Wednesday morning the Sentinel Project, represented by Director of Operations Drew Boyd, provided expert testimony to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on how Canada can assist vulnerable minorities threatened by mass atrocities. Last month,...
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 Adrian Gregorich | Jun 4, 2015 | General News, Team Announcements
On the evening of Monday June 1st, I had the opportunity to attend a mass Blanket Exercise on Parliament Hill, organized by the Assembly of Seven Generations as part of the closing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The event opened with an...
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 Christopher Tuckwood | Mar 31, 2015 | Conferences, General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
Is there a relationship between peace, conflict, technology, and misinformation? If so, how does this relationship work and what can we do to create healthier, more stable societies by responsively making accurate information readily available to citizens?...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Feb 18, 2015 | General News, Team Announcements, Una Hakika
In the course of our atrocity prevention work here at the Sentinel Project, we’ve built up a body of knowledge that applies to many different fields. This includes crisis mapping, security, and unmanned aerial vehicles but our greatest area of expertise is in...