A growing list of resources to supplement DatNav
If you’d like your guide or resource to be mentioned below, get in touch with us on hrdocs@theengineroom.org.
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Practical techniques
Social media data
- Citizen Evidence Lab
- First Draft News
- Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights Practitioners
- WITNESS
- Ethical guidelines for using eyewitness footage
Budget data for human rights
- Center for Economic and Social Rights (2015), Defending Dignity: a manual for national human rights institutions on monitoring economic, social and cultural rights
- International Budget Partnership (2010), A Guide to Tax Work for NGOs
- Christian Aid (2011), Tax Justice Advocacy: A Toolkit for Civil Society
- Fundar and International Budget Partnership (2004), Dignity Counts: a guide to budget analysis to advance human rights
- International Budget Partnership (2014), Article 2 and Governments’ Budgets
- OHCHR (2010), Human Rights in Budget Monitoring, Analysis and Advocacy: Training Guide
- International Budget Partnership (2008), Our Money, Our Responsibility: A Citizens’ Guide to Monitoring Government Expenditures
- Hakikazi Catalyst (2006), Follow the Money: A Resource Book for Trainers on Public Expenditure Tracking in Tanzania International Budget Partnership
- Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Spending Handbook
Here today, gone tomorrow: Preserving online videos and photos
- To scrape or no not to scrape
- Best practices in scraping: from ethics to techniques
- Chilling Effects – database that collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials including videos
- The Google Transparency Report openly cooperates with this documentation
- Takedown Project – partner of Chilling Effects project with an effort to mobilize the research community to explore how notice and takedown procedures operate in the U.S., Europe, and other countries, and how these procedures resolve conflicts between copyright and freedom of expression
- Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide and diagrams on YouTube’s takedown policies and how to challenge them
- Learn more about how satellites are used to expose human rights abuses
- Introductory guide to satellites and satellite image analysis
- Create a before/after slider: select satellite images and host them online, for example on flickr. Then copy and past the two links from flickr (link must end in .jpg) into the juxtapose tool
- Seeing From Above issue of the Exposing the Invisible program at Tactical Technology Collective: highlights cases of aerial imagery in different contexts through interviews, commentary, and how-tos
- Advanced guides on using satellite imagery in human rights work
- Digital security checklist to determine who should have access to your content
As seen from above: Satellites and drones
- Human rights relevant drone footage
- New Technologies for Property Rights, Human Rights, and Global Development
- iRevolutions
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Humanitarian Response
Responsible data considerations
Join the Responsible Data mailing list or check out the resources on the Responsible Data website. If you’re a Twitter user, you can also tweet using #ResponsibleData to tap into the thriving community of Responsible Data practitioners.
Real life safety risks
- New Tactics for Human Rights Activism has compiled a helpful list of considerations and tools for the protection and self-preservation of human rights professionals
- Privacy, Responsibility, and Human Rights Activism
- Towards Holistic Security for Rights Activists
- UNESCO’s Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age contains many tips that also apply to human rights researchers who want to protect their contacts
Are your digital tools safe?
Security in-a-Box, jointly developed by Front Line Defenders and Tactical Technology Collective, along with a global network of thousands of activists, trainers and digital security experts
- Backing up your software
- Secure file storage
- Destroying information
- Secure app scorecard
- The Responsible Data Forum’s Handbook of the Modern Development Specialist
- Setting Up Data Infrastructure
- An Introduction to Threat Modeling
- Threat Modeling for Campaigners and Activists
- EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
- Holistic Security Manual
Where to go from here
How to frame your research
- Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG): Core Concepts
- Responsible Data Forum: Recognising uncertainty in statistics (Brian Root, HRW)
- Kelly Greenhill: Nigeria’s Countless Casualties (Foreign Affairs, Tufts University)
- Selected HRDAG publications on selection bias
Reports that document the underlying research methodology as one or several sections in a report
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Gohdes_Convenience-Samples.pdf
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/results-paper.pdf
- https://targetedthreats.net/
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/HRDAG-SY-UpdatedReportAug2014.pdf
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/uv-estimates-paper_2012-11.pdf
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Benetech-TRC-descriptives-final.pdf
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Benetech-Report-to-CAVR.pdf
- https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/State-Violence-in-Chad.pdf
Experts working in this field
- Video
- Statistical methods
- Integrating + understanding data and technology strategically
- Secure data collection + software needs // Digital security
- Document management
- Eyewitness media:
- Open Source Intelligence and citizen investigative journalists
- Tactical Technology Collective
- Networks/communities