Technology solutions

The Oslo Freedom Forum has conceived the app Whistler which uses end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, free VPNs, and more to give activists the tools to take advantage of technology’s potential while avoiding its drawbacks.

The International Bar Association (IBA) has launched the eyeWitness app to document and report human rights atrocities in a secure and verifiable way, so the information can be used as evidence in a court of law.

Local activists armed with nothing more than a smartphone, a twitter account and a YouTube channel [can] become global distributors of information and images about human rights violations.

The Coca-Cola Company and the U.S. State Department are launching a project using blockchain’s digital ledger technology to create a secure registry for workers that will help fight the use of forced labor worldwide.

AI can be a powerful tool in the supply chain’s efforts to drive social and environmental responsibility: check out a technology to identify and address potential SER [social and environmental responsibility] issues and provide actionable intelligence to drive the necessary corrective actions.

A collaboration to develop a blockchain-based system designed to augment outside auditors of factory health and safety with self-reporting by workers

A suite of software tools and services that enable NGOs to provide cash transfer services to refugees. Arcadia empowers NGOs to offer “identity-less peer-to-peer cash transfer and other financial services to refugees

Muster enables young people in African megacities to access affordable housing by unlocking available rooms in these cities through a peer to peer shared housing marketplace. 

Creating employment opportunities for youth in post-conflict regions through software engineering training and connections with international corporations.