[bestbits] FYI: DatNav: Digital Data in Human Rights Research

[Elsa S]

Dear all,

I hope you all are well.

*With apologies for cross posts*, I’m excited to share with you on
launching day, today,* DatNav, a new guide to help navigate and integrate
digital data in human rights research.*

*You can **Read the guide online* <https://engn.it/datnav>

From online videos of rights violations, to satellite images of
environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social
media, we have access to more relevant data today than ever before. But
integrating data collection and management into the day to day work of
human rights research and documentation can be challenging, even
overwhelming, for individuals and organisations.

Through interviews, community consultations and a survey, we learned about
the challenges facing human rights researchers in using digital data in
their work. That’s why Amnesty, Benetech and the Engine Room created
DatNav, through a collaborative process together with a group of 15 experts
from leading human rights and technology organisations from around the
world, and a series of community consultations.

I'm excited to share it with you today, and I hope this is just the first
step towards strengthening human rights research and documentation with
digital data.

For more information, read the Engine Room blog post
<https://engn.it/datnav>, and if you’d like to be involved in next steps,
please get in touch with me.

Best regards,

Elsa

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*Elsa Saade*
*Human Rights Officer - Capacity Building, Advocacy, Research*
*Gulf Center for Human Rights <http://www.gc4hr.org/>*Beirut, Lebanon
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