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This week, I’m participating in a one week online dialog regarding the development of new tools and tactics for the purpose of documenting human rights violations. The New Tactics in Human Rights Project, led by a diverse group of partner international organizations, advisors and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. While there is an amazing list of researchers and practitioners who have been invited to seed the thread, all are welcome to join in the discussion, as well.
Here’s a brief summary of what we’ll be covering:
Join us for this important on-line dialogue featuring Documenting Violations: Choosing the Right Approach from January 27 to February 2, 2010. This dialogue will feature practitioners that have developed database systems to document human rights violations, organizations on the ground documenting violations, and those that are training practitioners on how to choose the right approach and system for their documentation. We will look at options for ways to collect, store and share your human rights data safely and effectively. If you are trying to figure out the best documenting system for your work – or if you have found something that works well, please join us for this conversation to share your questions, ideas, resources and stories!
Featured Resource Practitioners
Featured resource practitioners for this dialogue include (click here for more biographical info):
Vijaya Tripathi and Megan Price work with the Martus database developed by Benetech
Agnethe Olesen, Daniel D’Esposito and Bert Verstappen work on the OpenEvSys database developed by HURIDOCS
Jorge Villagran and Sofia Espinosa of the Guatemalan National Police Archive Team
Patrick J. Pierce, head of the International Center for Translational Justice – Burma Program
Oleg Burlaca, utilizes HURIDOCS methodology and working on websites for World Organisation Against Torture and SOVA Center for Information and Analysis
Patrick Stawski, Human Rights Archivist at Duke University and Seth Shaw, Duke’s Libraries’ Electronic Records Archivist
Jana Asher, M.S., is the Executive Director of StatAid
Agnieszka Raczynska of Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos, Mexico
Daniel Rothenberg is the Managing Director of International Projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) at DePaul University College of Law
This is a documentation for the Ushahidi Application Programming Interface(API). It serves as a reference for developers building tools to interact with the Ushahidi engine.
The Ushahidi API try to conform to Representational State Transfer (REST) design principles. As it is now, it supports XML and the JSON data exchange formats. In a few cases, it supports KML. We are working hard to support the other formats too.
John Gruber has found a javascript library for iPhone webApps, from nobody other than Apple itself. This interesting library, called PastryKit, seems to have been pretty much undiscovered since google does not have much on it. In likes of others, Apple’s javascript library provides support for that app native-feel. (That is the main objective anyway; some look & feel emulators are pretty “good”, while others get stuck in the past).
Public AMIs to use as base:
( Images with strike through them are no longer recommended. Their are fine for experimenting and testing, but should not be used for permanent “live” servers )
I have recently had reason to convert an Access MDB file to CSV for use in a mysql database. I don't like the idea of an Access database on a production server and Microsoft has been agreeing since 1999.
As it turns out it is actually very easy, there is GPL software available for the job at http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/. If you are using Ubuntu or Debian you can use apt-get install the mdbtools package
CallWeaver is a community-driven, vendor-independent, cross-platform, open source, PBX software project (formerly known as OpenPBX.org). It was originally derived from Asterisk. Now it supports analog and digital PSTN telephony, multi-protocol voice over IP telephony, fax, software-fax, T.38 fax over IP and many telephony applications such as IVR, conferencing and callcenter queue management.
The purpose of this thread is to create a nice collection of MetaMorph files so that anybody can pick the morphs they like to and create a fully customized phone the way you want it. Since i really think MetaMorph is going to change the way we think about theming and make life a lot easier for both users and themers lets get the ball rolling. So any themer or anybody that has created a morph please share your creations for the benefit of others.
The purpose of this thread is to create a nice collection of MetaMorph files so that anybody can pick the morphs they like to and create a fully customized phone the way you want it. Since i really think MetaMorph is going to change the way we think about theming and make life a lot easier for both users and themers lets get the ball rolling. So any themer or anybody that has created a morph please share your creations for the benefit of others.
SQLCipher is an open source extension that provides transparent encryption of SQLite databases. Data pages are encrypted before being written to storage and decrypted on read.