UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge: please vote
NetSquared in partnership with the UC Berkely Human Rights Center has put out an open challenge, called the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge.
The projects under consideration are all listed here and they need your vote! To submit your vote, you need to vote for a minimum of 3 projects, maximum of 5.
The list of projects is truly amazing and choosing 5 is not easy - I do though, want to mention the IJCentral project specifically because I know the team behind it and they are amazing folks completely committed to combating the entrenched culture of impunity for crimes against humanity. Their film documentary (which is in tandem to their IJCentral new media project) is titled "The Reckoning" and currently in the festival circuit, to be broadcast nationally on PBS POV on July 14th).
About the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge:
"Recent innovations in science and technology, especially mobile technologies, have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and disseminate this information in real time throughout the world. Cell phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises. Handheld data collection devices, such as PDAs, provide researchers with new ways of documenting mass violence and attitudes toward peace, justice, and social reconstruction in conflict zones."