by Drew Boyd | Jul 16, 2021
The 2022 Kenyan Election Support our efforts to prevent election violence in Kenya Donate Now Fundraising Goal $10,000 raised of $10,000 100% Kenya is set to hold a general election on 9 August 2022. Kenyan elections are often violent so we are preparing as soon as...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 16, 2019
Sentinel has launched a civilian protection pilot project in partnership with at-risk communities in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Called Kijiji Cha Amani (Swahili for ‘peace village’), the project focuses on establishing safe...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 16, 2019
Hagiga Wahid aims to provide information verification and misinformation management services to South Sudanese refugees and host communities in northern Uganda as well as in other areas where the project can be expanded. Since misinformation and propaganda act as...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 16, 2019
Misinformation, propaganda, and the instability that these factors contribute to has been largely unaddressed in the development, governance, and civil society fields. Those limited attempts which have taken place emphasize censorship or direct targeting of offenders...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 16, 2019
Sarus Humanitarian Aerospace is an initiative of the Sentinel Project, a Canadian non-profit using new technologies to address the most pressing humanitarian challenges of our time. It utilizes unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite imagery to assist humanitarian...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 27, 2018
Una Hakika is an information service which provides subscribers with neutral, accurate information in response to rumours that arise in the Tana Delta. Most of the communication for Una Hakika takes place through SMS (short messaging service, or text messaging, as it...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 27, 2018
WikiRumours is a web- and mobile-based platform for moderating misinformation and disinformation. The software is free and open source under an MIT license, which means that it can be used for open, commercial or proprietary use, without mandatory attribution. As...
by Drew Boyd | Mar 27, 2018
Launched on 25 March 2013, Hatebase is the world’s largest online repository of structured multilingual, usage-based hate speech. It is an attempt to create a repository of words and phrases that researchers can use to detect the early stages of genocide and remains...
