Soul of the New Machine

May 4-5, 2009 - Clark Kerr Campus at UC Berkeley

"Soul of the New Machine" will be a human rights and technology conference hosted by the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, May 4-5, 2009.

Members

  • Will Griffith
  • Zulma Sofia Patarroyo
  • Michael J Ferola
  • Marek Tuszynski
  • Jonathan Pool
  • Phuong Pham
  • Kyra Sanin
  • Paco
  • Draxtor
  • Rowan
  • Wendy Levy
  • still awake
  • Barbara Kim Thigpen
  • Amine
  • Usha Venkatachallam
  • Robert Godden

Events

 

Latest Activity

23 hours ago
Kyra Sanin is now a member of Soul of the New Machine
on Monday
Robert Godden Checking out UC Berkeley conference video
October 15
September 22

Blog Posts

Will Griffith

THE SONG OF HOPE REQUIRES US TO SING IT



As we look at the world around us with all of the polarization in our society and the divisions between the human family, we often feel bombarded and overwhelmed by the enormity of these challenges. White against black, Jew against Arab, straight against gay...ALL examples of diContinue

Posted by Will Griffith on June 27, 2009 at 11:06am

Will Griffith

FROM THE IHRT PRESS ROOM



Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has railed for years against the Japanese government’s waffling over how much responsibility it bears for one of the ugliest chapters in its wartime history: the enslavement… Continue

Posted by Will Griffith on June 14, 2009 at 9:31am

Sam Gregory

Training partnerships and linkages - join us!

On Tuesday lunchtime a group of Soul participants met to talk about challenges/lessons learned/opportunities in training on tools and tactics, and to think about how we could partner more. Please join our 'Training' group if you're interested in being part of an ongoing conversation around this...

http://newmachineconference.ning.com/group/training

Our next step - a basic mapping/visualization of training work and current partne… Continue

Posted by Sam Gregory on May 6, 2009 at 1:03pm

Marek Tuszynski

mobile tools

While seating at the PDAS AND PHONES FOR DATA COLLECTION and listening to all the presentations, currently a very good review of various uses of sms by Ken Banks - who runs http://www.kiwanja.org i could not stop myself from little self promotion of a toolkit that we developed together with Fahamu.org and over 50 advocacy organisations from Africa and beyond. If you are interested, please go and see or download or get a hard copy (all free) from http://mobiles.tacticaltech.org - i dont really li… Continue

Posted by Marek Tuszynski on May 5, 2009 at 1:20pm

Melissa Carnay

Ken Banks Document - PDA Presentation

Feel free to download Ken's presentation here

Posted by Melissa Carnay on May 5, 2009 at 12:12pm

Forum

Mohammed Ali

The participation of Egypt and Sudan .......The First Day 1 Reply

More than fourteen activist and journalist, and technicians involved in the California,,,, but from Egypt a useful experience

Started by Mohammed Ali. Last reply by Mohammed Ali May 7.

Mary Jane Marcus

Data Gathering Forum - link to InSTEDD Innovation Lab

Here is a link to the Innovation Lab Robert mentioned in the presentation: http://edjez.instedd.org/2008/09/phn

Tagged: innovation, gathering, data

Started by Mary Jane Marcus May 5.

Camille Crittenden

Spanish-speaking bloggers? 3 Replies

Dear all, We are trying to help organize remote viewing/participating locations in a couple of Latin American locations and are seeking Spanish-speaking bloggers who could either attend the confere...

Tagged: blog, Spanish

Started by Camille Crittenden. Last reply by Mateo Reyes May 5.

Mateo Reyes

Spanish audio / Audio en español

Live simultaneous interpretation of some of today's talks on: http://radio.gathacol.net/ Interpretación simultánea en vivo de algunas charlas de hoy en: http://radio.gathacol.net/

Tagged: interpretation, interpretación, interpreting, traducción, español

Started by Mateo Reyes May 5.

Cristina

Remote conference hubs? 5 Replies

Barcamp? Networking? Speakers over Breakfast (we're 3 hours ahead in NYC)? Viewing? How can we best engage our local audience here, while highlighting the content in Berkeley?

Started by Cristina. Last reply by Cristina May 4.

 
 

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Established in 1994, the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley investigates war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Our empirical studies recommend specific policy measures to hold perpetrators accountable, protect vulnerable populations, and help rebuild war-torn societies. To learn more about the HRC, visit our website.
 

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