RightsCon Tunis 2019

This panel will bring together those working in various capacities in the human rights field including advocates, lawyers, technologists, usability experts, archivists, and others interested in creating tools and standards and increasing their adoption in the wider community towards the common goal of holding abusers accountable through the ethical collection and preservation of evidentiary media. Our panel will be highly participatory where we will share our experiences, perspectives, and use cases of how community & larger organizations, such as Human Rights Watch, are integral in the evolution of emergent tools like OpenArchive and ProofMode to standardize workflows, create and securely share, and preserve documentation they collect from the field. We will discuss the research and development process, threat models, state of technology, and learn more about the challenges attendees face around media collection/preservation/access. We will focus on knowledge sharing, interaction, engagement, and feedback that will help inform the evolution of OpenArchive, SecureDrop, Guardian Project, Meedan, WITNESS’ projects, and others. It will be a group-based discussion, where we will share our different areas of expertise within the human rights open source technological landscape and learn about the participants’ backgrounds and needs, followed by a discussion of opportunities and challenges.