by Timothy Quinn | Apr 3, 2019 | Technology
I’m often asked whether the world is a more hateful place today than it was yesterday. Are current levels of intolerance and xenophobia statistically meaningful – waypoints on the road to some grim Mad Max world of hypertribalism? It’s a difficult question...
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 Timothy Quinn | Jan 31, 2019 | Technology
pilotfish n. A small fish which swims alongside a shark in a symbiotic relationship, devouring parasites in return for protection Wikipedia When we relaunched Hatebase at the end of last year, we deployed not only a wealth of new data attributes (e.g. targeted groups,...
by Timothy Quinn | Dec 11, 2018 | Technology
If you’ve connected with the Hatebase API in the past, you’ll notice a number of changes with v4; we’ve updated our authentication and added several new data attributes, including specific targeted groups, so any code you’ve written to...
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 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 John Green | 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 | 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...
