BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1155269.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T012321Z DESCRIPTION:\n Please join us for a study group on technology and human righ ts at the Harvard Kennedy School!\n\n\n\n The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on technology\, human rights and artificial intelligence. The study group\, which will meet three \;tim es this semester\, is convened and moderated by \;Steven Livingston\, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.\n\n\n\n This is a n open study group. No registration is required.\n\n\n\n The study group wi ll meet from 12:00 - 1:15 \;pm \;on three occasions this semester: \n\n\n\n \n Wednesday\, February 13 in room \;Taubman-102\n \n \n Topic: Te chnology and Opensource Investigations\n \n \n Guest Speakers: Scott Edwards\ , Senior Advisor\, Amnesty International\, \; Alexa Koenig\, Executive Director\, Human Rights Center\, University of California - Berkeley  \;\n \n \n \n \n Wednesday\, March 6 in room Wexner-102\n \n \n Topic: Disinformat ion\n \n \n \n \n Wednesday\, April 17 in room Wexner-102\n \n \n Topic: Superinte lligent AI and Rights\n \n \n \n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Session 1 - Technology a nd Opensource Investigations:\n\n\n\n In recent years\, journalists and hum an rights investigators have turned to opensource investigations in their efforts to report the news and document human rights abuses and war crimes . \; In addition to conventional field investigations\, data drawn fro m commercial satellite imagery\, social media platforms\, video and still images captures with nearly ubiquitous handheld multipurpose devices.  \; Groups like Forensic Architecture\, Bellingcat\, Situ Research\, the Ne w York Times Video Investigations Unit\, and the Digital Verification Corp s of Amnesty International use these data to learn and verify events.  \; For the first time\, the International Criminal Court at The Hague issu ed an arrest warrant based solely on opensource evidence. \; We will r eview this trend in human rights work.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Scott Edwards : \;\n\n\n\n Dr. Scott Edwards is Project Manager for the Science for H uman Rights project at Amnesty International\, USA (AIUSA). His dissertati on\, “A Composite Theory and Practical Model of Forced Displacement\,” adv ances a computational model of flight for purposes of forecasting humanita rian crises\, and current research activity focuses on early warning/risk assessment models. Prior to his current post\, Scott served as AIUSA's Cou ntry Specialist on Sudan from 2003-2008.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Alexa Koeni g: \;\n\n\n\n Alexa Koenig is \;Executive Director of the Human Rig hts Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law\, where she teac hes classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particul ar focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice. She co-founded the Human Rights Investigations Lab\, which trains undergra duate and graduate students to use cutting-edge open source methods to sup port human rights advocacy and accountability. Alexa is co-chair of the Wo rld Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Rights and Technology\ , a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Co mmittee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility\, co-chair of the Technol ogy Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Cr iminal Court\, and a founding member of the board of advisors for ARCHER\, a UC Berkeley-established nonprofit that leverages technology to make dat a-driven investigations accessible\, smarter and more scalable. Alexa has been honored with several awards for her work\, including the United Natio ns Association-SF’s Global Human Rights Award\, Mark Bingham Award for Exc ellence\, the Eleanor Swift Award for Public Service\, the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Teaching Excellence Award\, and diverse grants\, inclu ding support from the National Science Foundation and numerous private fou ndations. Her research and commentary have appeared in the Annual Review o f Law and Social Science\, Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, US News and World Report\, and elsewhere. \;\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T131500 LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T163026Z LOCATION:Taubman 102 SUMMARY:Study Group: Technology and Human Rights - Technology and Opensourc e Investigations URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/study-group-technolog y-and-human-rights-technology-and-opensource-investigations END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR