by The Sentinel Project | Mar 8, 2024 | Conferences, General News, Kenya, Misinformation, Technology, Una Hakika, Women
New Zealand government funds joint project to launch digital literacy pilot program in Kenya’s Tana Delta; aims to provide youth with skills which will allow them to counter incendiary misinformation which contributes to unrest and violence Tana River...
by Adrian Gregorich | Oct 31, 2018 | General News, Kenya, Una Hakika
This year we celebrated the Sentinel Project’s tenth anniversary and this has inspired lots of both looking back and looking ahead. In this first instalment of a two-part interview, executive director Christopher Tuckwood reflects on the early days of Una Hakika...
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...
by Adrian Gregorich | Apr 8, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Una Hakika
An interview with Una Hakika Project Coordinator John Green How has Una Hakika grown in the last year? Looking back at the progression of Una Hakika from a simple idea of reporting incendiary rumours in Tana Delta to a full-fledged violence prevention project is a...
by Christopher Tuckwood | Apr 1, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika
One of my goals during our latest visit to the Tana Delta was to take a break from our usual routine of meetings, village visits, training sessions, and long hours on the road in order to simply observe Una Hakika in action. It seemed like a great opportunity to watch...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 10, 2015 | Burma, Conferences, General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Technology, Una Hakika
The Sentinel Project is pleased to announce the expansion of our advisory board. Patrick Meier is the Director of Social Innovation at Qatar Computing Research Institute and a luminary and leader in the application of new technologies for crisis-mapping, early...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 30, 2015 | General News, Kenya, Technology, Una Hakika
This Sentinel Focus feature highlights John Otunga, Project Co-ordinator for The Sentinel Project’s (https://thesentinelproject.org/) Una Hakika initiative. Una Hakika (Swahili for ‘Are you sure?’) is a program launched in 2013 to use...
