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Prosecution. which is ultimately to triangulate your physical accidents, say youre a murder weapon, soil set up playback samples with information people are given you orally about whats been happening with the documentary evidence really these photos and videos can enrich sources of data. d0 and videos can enrich sources of data. ,, ,, of data. do you think the inability _ of data. do you think the inability to _ of data. do you think the inability to work - of data. do you think the inability t...

In their communities. so we began doing an assessment of what forms of information are out there that can come in and strengthen these narratives? so we began working with geospatial analysts, people working in analytics. of course that was a time when you were seeing a rise of social media and smartphones around the globe. the cost of satellite imagery and the access of it, the cost dropping and access increasing for laypeople. we began pulling that together and thinking about how we can really...

Commercial practice for a number of years but my work has been moving away from construction and building for quite some time. i was a for the past four or five years, in fa ct. this sort of work is now in fact my dayjob. fantastic, we will hear much more about that later. lets start with francis scarr, i referred to the situation is the ukraine crisis thats because thats how its headlined in the western media. is this the russian media is using? well if you take state tv for example, which is t...

Residential home, people pouring water over courtyard and these videos were coming out at the same time reports were coming out that the us had carried out a jury strike in kabul. 0urteam carried out a jury strike in kabul. our team and immediately set to work over the first thing we did was try to geo— locate which is something that you and ben have spoken have already. where did this happen? there is very few details at the time but there were some details at the us had released about how fa...

Way began working in the spaces in 2011. when we were looking at the upcoming tenure anniversary of the international criminal court. 0ne international criminal court. one of the things we are observing his researches as one of those many of those cases are falling apart at many early stages of prosecution both at the question we begin asking was why. according to the judges in the thousands of pages of documents we went through thejudges were through the judges were critical of the prosecutors ...

Coming — identifying narratives that are coming up we are not necessarily to counter our battle _ necessarily to counter our battle narratives but rather pick — battle narratives but rather pick out _ battle narratives but rather pick out and tease out the details _ pick out and tease out the details of whats happening on the ground. as you said, theres_ the ground. as you said, theres so much information that— theres so much information that is— theres so much information that is doing ...

Every month or every few months so that we could really see what was happening. but the cost of satellite imagery can absolutely be a barrier where that public data doesnt already exist. alexa, youre the executive director of the human rights centre, berkeley school of law, which is a giveaway that you talked about in terms of bringing people to justice. is having a global news outlet using your techniques more effective than an ngo? the power of journalism, in other words? i actually think they...

I actually think theyre very complementary. l almost as if they are links in a chain. - if you look at what these investigative reporters. are doing, theyre both consumers of digital. open source information. but theyre also putting a lot of closed source information| out into public spaces - where it can then become leads for legal investigators to know who they should be talking - to to get the testimonial evidence, what physicall evidence may actually exist. for example, if they got over a wh...

To identify how the chinese government was building a massive infrastructure to detain muslims. allison, i mentioned how open—source investigators are often amateur — theyre certainly not all trained journalist. and your dayjob is in fact as an architect. and here you are winning a pulitzer. yeah, i mean, im trained as an architect and i worked in commercial practice for a number of years but, in fact, my work has been moving away from construction and building for quite some time. i would s...

About it is when i put something out under my name, most people wont believe it. but because im transparent and most of us are transparent they can dig through and see what ourfindings are. thats the best thing about a lot of this that were sitting online. someone might post a video imposed a location but cross—referencing and identifying that information with trees, signs — a mcdonalds sign in the background for instance — might actually reveal that that information is true. and thats all...