In April, UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center hosted "Advancing the New
Machine: Human Rights and Technology", a conference for human rights
practitioners and technologists to discuss the progress, successes,
and challenges that have emerged with the growth of information
technologies. Read more at
http://fora.tv/2011/04/26/Advancing_the_New_Machine_Mobile_Technology.
At the conference, the Mobile Technology panel focused on mobile
technology as a data collection tool, highlighting the challenges in
implementing such projects and ensuring the security of those using
it.
The video of the entire panel is at
http://fora.tv/2011/04/26/Advancing_the_New_Machine_Mobile_Technology
and features short talks from the panelists below and a great question
and answer section. For ODK users, there is also a sneak peek at some
of the advanced functionality we are working on in Gaetano's talk.
Tapan Parikh (Information School, UC Berkeley)
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh
Neil Hendrick (Kobo, Human Rights Center)
http://www.koboproject.org
Katrin Verclas (MobileActive)
http://www.mobileactive.org
Gaetano Borriello (Open Data Kit, University of Washington)