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The Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley is an independent research center that applies scientific methods and innovative technologies to promote human rights and international humanitarian law worldwide. Five years ago, Drs. Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck, with technical advise from William E. Bertrand of the Payson Center for International Development, joined an effort to develop a more effective and efficient way of collecting real-time data. They worked with several programmers to design and develop a PDA collection process that would permit the collection of geo-coded data. The first successfully piloted product was programmed by Neil Hendrick. Upon successfully implementing the project, our team received a three year grant from the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to further develop the technology. Thanks to the new support, the KoBo Project was officially launched in January 2009. It includes three program components: 1) a package of tools to facilitate electronic data collection and analyze the results, 2) discussion forum for both researchers and technical developers, 3) bi-annual conference on human rights, technology, and new media. |
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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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