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Nightwatch
Nightwatch would be a website where people can post where and when they are protesting, if they or anyone they know are detained, an a place where they can share their stories and pictures. Wells College Innovation class Pamela Badian-Pessot Aly
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Emergency shoes
As hanzel and grettel left crumbs to find their way home, a device that leave satellite signals perhaps from a special ink or microchips might be applied in the shoes so that the user can leave marks from the place he was last seen. This shoes might
Universal Emergency Number - UPDATED
A universal emergency number for reporting unlawful detention. Can be used to gain immediate help as well as long term support for the detainees and their families.
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Camouflage
The main question that has driven my first concept is: "How to establish contact with prisoners without using modern technologies and without getting guards / institutions suspicious." If a single person (e.g a family member) or an institution (e.g
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Amnesty International Vending Machine / Info Hub
Imagine an Amnesty 'safe zone' in the form of a Vending Machine / Info Hub where a human rights affected community can access basic tools and knowledge to help them stay informed with unfolding events, and also inspiring them to document their own su
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The Detainee Support Net - Financial, Legal, Moral
A service that provides detainee support through micro-loans/gifts, a pro bono legal network, social network exposure, and moral support. This could be accomplished through detainee profile widgets incorporated into existing sites.
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Watching the Watchmen
Implement a low cost instrumentation of the potentially offending groups or authorities for monitoring behaviors and patterns.
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Information Accessibility - "mGAP"- Service
mobile Global Accessible and Portable "mGAP" service to bridge the information gap.
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Amnesty interactive map
A lot of people know about Ai Weiwei and some of them have tried to convince China government to release him but how many people know Majid Tavakoli and did anybody helped him to release. How can we build a platform to not only play an essential and
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Social media alerts are sent to Amnesty International
Get Facebook (or other social media) on board and motivate people at risk to write status messages regularly and register with Amnesty International. If someone at risk is writing status messages each day, everyone knows he or she is fine. Once he or
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Electronic bracelet for house arrest for somewhat just countries
One of the biggest concerns of unlawful detention is people "disappearing" or just living in very bad jail conditions after being taken into custody. This is a step forward in detention (not the ultimate point) by encouraging house arrest which will
An Interactive Infographic Platform - fueled by the whole network of supporters
Imagine a platform where data flowing in from various human rights realities around the world, is translated into real time infographics for everyone to see, in ONE place. Anyone can submit information through various channels part of our network. Da
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“WikiAm” - The Wiki Amnesty
The WikiAm concept is based on sharing - it’s about gathering the more information possible from previous unlawful detention cases (by interviews or research); then upload it to an online platform (server, cloud) and share it at a global scale keepin
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Collaborate with the UN Global Pulse Project - "Digital Smoke Signals"
http://www.unglobalpulse.org/ The UN Global Pulse - "Harnessing innovation to protect the vulnerable"
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Getting Chipped - Humans to Cyborgs
Today we thrive on technology. The Social networking media has become part of our lives. And now the challenge is to exploit it for the betterment of such people who may get detained abroad for whatsoever reasons, so that they can communicate with th
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Open Network Mesh Can Be On When They Turn Off Every Thing
The question is how can you build up a large scale wireless network in a whole large city like Tehran very quickly when government turns off all other ways?
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No ping = Alert ON ! (Update Nov 10)
The inspiration was: interruption-based security architecture. The concept: Someone is detained. He was suppose to ping the system saying "I'm OK", but he can't. Because of this, a series of smart alarms are created.
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Throwable Camera Ball
Only something a came across on Youtube. Could be adapted to peak over a wall, i thought. Possibly something for someone to "build on".
Satellite Scanner
Could a satellite scan prison windows or other regions or buildings suspected to hold detainees for flash light Morse code (or any other sign for that matter)?
Clandestine Morse Reader
An app that translates Morse code into text and allows it to be shared on the web.
This Tiny Microchip Can Save You
In Libya still there are 50,000 lost people whom they know what happened to. I think huge proportion of unlawful detainees consists by these people so I built this concept base on targeting these folks.