Open Source Investigations for Human Rights Defenders

May 26

Written By IWPR

How to build an investigation using basic OSINT tools.

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION

During this 1 hour and a half workshop, Omar Ferwarti leads a crash course on holding open source investigations for human rights defenders. During this session Ferwarti goes through the step by step process of an investigation from collecting the necessary data to verifying it, to the role that social media plays in that process, along with the skills needed to perfect geolocation, data scraping, and then compiling all this information into a comprehensive work.

AUTHORS

Omar Ferwati is a researcher at Forensic Architecture, a research agency that uses architectural and spatial analysis together with open-source media to conduct human rights investigations.

Omar’s own research currently focuses on how civilians use architecture to survive urban warfare, particularly in Aleppo. He is contributing a chapter based on this work for a forthcoming book on reconstruction and violence.

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Languages: English

PRODUCED AS PART OF
DATAFEST TBILISI 2020