by Drew Boyd | Aug 8, 2014 | General News, Team Announcements
August 8th marks the Sentinel Project’s sixth year working to prevent atrocities and assisting threatened communities around the world through the use of technology. We thank all of our supporters and partners without whom we could not have reached where we are...
by Adrian Gregorich | Jun 10, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Una Hakika
In this interview Una Hakika community ambassador Kode Komora discusses his involvement with the project and his hopes for his community: How did you first hear about Una Hakika? I first heard about Una Hakika when I met John Green. Our youth group (Delta VCEZ Youth...
by Adrian Gregorich | Jun 2, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Una Hakika
During our Una Hakika community ambassador training sessions we hold a discussion entitled “Why Peace?” in which participants explain what the peace building process means to them. These are some their responses:
by Timothy Quinn | May 28, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Technology
TANA DELTA, KENYA — Information security is an issue which has been raised several times in the communities currently being visited by The Sentinel Project in Kenya’s Tana Delta. As discovered during our recent survey of Tana residents, 82% of residents polled...
by Adrian Gregorich | May 26, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements, Una Hakika
Over the last few days the Una Hakika team has conducted volunteer ambassador trainings in communities around the Tana Delta. We have completed four such sessions so far in Pokomo, Orma, and ethnically mixed villages, some of which were directly affected by violent...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 7, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
Earlier this week, we released the first version of our downloadable, open source rumour management software, WikiRumours. An instance of this software, called Una Hakika? (“Are your sure?”), is currently being configured to support our efforts in...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Feb 17, 2014 | Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements, Una Hakika
We’ve been talking and writing a lot lately about Una Hakika but haven’t really taken the time yet to fully describe what it is. After all, what does it mean in practice to prevent atrocities in a remote part of eastern Kenya by using mobile phones to counter...
by Timothy Quinn | Feb 14, 2014 | General News, Team Announcements, Technology
Timothy Quinn recently became The Sentinel Project’s Director of Technology. Tim is a hands-on technology leader with 15 years experience deploying software for web, mobile and social media. He’s taught at both New York University and the City University...
by Adrian Gregorich | Feb 14, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
In this interview Drew Boyd, the Sentinel Project’s Kenya Situation of Concern Team Lead, weighs in on rumour-spreading in the Tana Delta, emerging trends in our field research and aspirations for the future of Una Hakika. What were your expectations for the Una...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Feb 13, 2014 | General News, Team Announcements
Setting goals is one of the keys to success in any venture, which is one of the main reasons that 2013 was such a great year for the Sentinel Project. In fact, I’m writing this blog post from the road as our team drives through the Tana Delta in the midst of our first...
by John Green Otunga | Feb 7, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements
by John Green and Christine Mutisya After a long, eventful journey we finally reached the Tana Delta – Garsen town to be specific. As we are both from Nairobi, we experienced a drastic change in the climate, Garsen being very hot and dusty. The level of development,...
by Adrian Gregorich | Feb 3, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements
Yesterday Sentinel Project team members working on the Una Hakika project here in Kenya traveled to the village of Kipao to conduct a baseline survey to gain insight into the community members’ sources of information and assess their response to harmful...
