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Helping Journalists open suspicious documents safely
Helping journalists and activists stay safe from potentially infected files with a simple, straight-forward and understandable OCR based tool that ‘scans’ your suspicious document and makes a ‘clean’ copy.
Sending files without a trace. Using the magic wormhole protocol for peer-to-peer file transfer
Helping NGO’s, Journalists and Activists stay safe when sending essential files over the internet by making sure they understand and can operate peer to peer file sharing tools.
Making sense of global data about Malware and Spyware searchable, viewable and understandable
Making sense of global data about Malware and Spyware searchable, viewable and understandable to journalists, activists and academics.
Designing safe, private and care-focused mutual aid experiences in times of crisis
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a team of technologists explored and prototyped what a safe, secure, connected and crisis-relevant mutual aid technology network would need to look like.
Providing essential coaching during prototype funding rounds for open source software
Making the most of limited coaching time with open source software projects that are in prototyping funding rounds is an exercise in getting to the root of a design and usability problem and quickly and efectively as possible.
Strengthening the Design community and the Open Source Ecosystem by faciltating collaboration together and bridging the design gaps in OSS
A community interest, multi-stakeholder project focussed on bringing designers into the OSS ecosystem and solving the puzzle of sustainable and maintainable open source design contributions via ‘OSS for good’.
Communication during crisis. Building technology the connects you in the most extreme crisis
After team members were trapped during a terrorist attack, we never wanted to not be able to check on our team during high risk crisis again. Making crisis communications usable and well designed for stress scenarios.
Comprehensible data matching across humanitarian data sets using HXL and the Humanitarian Data Exchange
Ensuring that import, export and tagging of data on the Ushahidi data collection platform was usable and accessible to users as they imported and exported datasets across systems. Universal data language comprehension as critical usability for data analysis.
How can technology and design help people striving for peace after genocide
How can technology help people striving for peace after genocide and how to focus on a co-creation, liberty and equity focus strengthen bridges between communities under traumtic stress.
Data Collection, Mapping and Crisis Response technology for open source and social good globally
Building Data Collection, Mapping and Crisis Response technology for global NGO and Activists in the heart of Kenya.