Workshop on Digital Methods & Ethics in Open Source Investigation

With Al Jaloud (PAX Memoria) and Jeff Deutch (Pax Memoria/Centre for Internet and Human Rights).

We are pleased to invite you to a closed workshop on digital methods and the ethics of open source investigation, led by Al Jaloud, founding director of PAX Memoria and Jeff Deutch, fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights, both co-founders of Mnemonic. Drawing on their extensive experience advising UN bodies and documenting human rights abuses in conflict zones, Al Jaloud and Deutch will share insights into digital documentation methods while exploring the complex ethical dimensions of this work.

The workshop will be structured in two parts:

  1. A practical session focusing on digital methods for open source investigation
  2. A plenary discussion exploring the ethical implications and governance of crisis and conflict archives

Registration

Please sign up via this link by 14 March. Coffee will be served. If you have any dietary requirements or accessibility needs, please send an email to: Esmee Dylan Colbourne edc@hum.ku.dk. 

Maximum participants: 15.

 

10:00 - 13:00 Hands-on workshop on digital methods for open source investigation. Led by Al Jaloud and Jeff Deutch

  • Presentation of workflow (general)
  • Case study on Pax Memoria’s work with Lebanese archive
  • Discovery and finding good sources
  • Exercises - advanced search (dorking), including using Boolean scripts to fine content for your work

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 

14:00 - 15:30 Theoretical discussion: Methods and ethics of open source investigations and archiving. Led by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup and Esmée Colbourne

 

 

Al Jaloud specializes in visual documentation, focusing on human rights abuses and environmental crises in conflict zones. He is the founder of Pax Memoria, an organization dedicated to rapid-response archiving of visual evidence, particularly concerning environmental issues, and supporting civil society groups. He is also the co-founder of Mnemonic, which serves as a long-term repository  for visual data related exclusively to human rights abuses. Al Jaloud has extensive experience leading trainings on digital security, video as evidence, open source investigations, and community archiving, and has advised UN bodies on these matters

Dr. Jeff Deutch is a researcher deeply invested in tech for society. He has worked as an Associate for Research Design and Leadership at The Engine Room, and cofounded Syrian Archive and Mnemonic where he worked as Director of Operations and Research. Jeff is a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights and holds a doctorate from Humboldt-University in Berlin.