 The KoBo project of the Human Rights Center, University of California aims to assist researchers collect secure and accurate data in challenging environment, and analyze the results applying the most appropriate technology and new media. What does KoBo mean? KoBo means ‘transfer’ in Acholi. Acholi is the language spoken in several districts of northern Uganda where we first piloted the use of personal digital assistants to collect information on attitudes about peace, justice and social reconstruction. For over 20 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army waged war in northern Uganda, abducting, mutilating and killing countless of civilians. We published a report based on the findings: “When the War Ends”. What is KoBo's mission? KoBo is designed to collect and transfer data, from those who experienced violence to policy and decision- makers, and back to the community, to create a effect channel for dialogue. KoBo aim to makes it easy to develop a mobile data collection system: designing data collection forms for PDAs, uploading the forms on multiple PDAs, and transferring collected data to a centralized database. All through a secured and protected system. Although the mobile data collection can be used for a range of applications, Kobo’s primary goal is to facilitate human rights investigations and to give a voice to survivors of mass violence. For that reason, KoBo integrates advanced cryptography and secured access.  |
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Conference Human Rights Center Kobo is a project of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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