UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge

25 February 2009, 12:08pm

UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge

The Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce the 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.
How it Works

The Human Rights Center is sponsoring a challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy. Through a NetSquared Community vote, 10 finalists will be chosen. All 10 finalists will be invited to present their ideas at an international conference, “The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media,” at UC Berkeley, May 4 and 5, 2009. A panel of judges, selected by the Human Rights Center, will choose three winners, to be announced at the conference. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place) to implement their ideas.

To learn more about speakers and program topics for "The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media" visit the conference Web page at: http://hrc.berkeley.edu/events/newmachineconference/

To register for the conference visit the registration page at:

http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=176606

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