News, Research

Digital ID: What we’ve been up to and where we’re headed

Sara Baker

Last September, we started working on a research project looking at the effects of digital identification on local communities. We’ve been in touch with many people, organisations and institutions who are thinking about digital identification systems in different ways, and we’ve developed some exciting research methods. We’re excited to share a bit of what we’ve […]

Research

How we approached consent and security in our digital ID research

Paola Verhaert

العربية | Español | Français At the outset of our research project on digital ID, we aimed to design consent and data management processes that uphold the dignity and rights of the communities in our study. As we’ve noted, it is often unclear whether communities purportedly being offered “informed consent” actually have the space to […]

Learnings & Reflections

Takeaways from the Digital Verification Corps Summit

Alix Dunn

Last week, I had the privilege of spending three days on the Berkeley campus with the Digital Verification Corps, (DVC) the student cohort that has been driving video verification, processing, and high velocity support to process video for Amnesty International investigations and other human rights investigations.