1st Place: $5,000
MediCapt Physicians for Human Rights, in collaboration with Datadyne and InformaCam Cambridge, MAThis mobile app will equip doctors and nurses with critical tools for collecting, documenting and preserving court-admissible forensic evidence of mass atrocities including sexual violence and torture. By building on Magpi’s innovative mobile data collection platform and InformaCam’s cutting-edge secure photo capture and chain of custody system, health care providers will be able to effectively document, photograph and compile medical evidence and securely transmit the data to authorities to support prosecutions and accountability for these crimes.
2nd Place: $3,000
Silent Lens Solver has chosen to remain anonymousA mobile application that allows users to covertly take pictures while simultaneously recording the location and time (EXIF data) during Internet blackout situations in a hostile environment using an encrypted peer-to-peer Bluetooth network.
3rd Place: $1,000
International Evidence Locker Bonne Freudinger, Brian Laning, and Heather Vernon Milwaukee, WisconsinThe International Evidence Locker (IEL) is a proposed system designed to collect relevant evidence, maintain a clear chain of custody of the evidence so it’s admissible in judicial proceedings, and protect the witnesses collecting the evidence. IEL would be a free, downloadable phone App that enables a user to take a picture of an atrocity in progress, encrypt it, and send it instantaneously to a secure drop-box at a human rights organization for evidence storage.
3rd Place: $1000
Automated Mass Atrocity Algorithmic Analysis Methodology (AMALGAM) Gili Vidan and Nathaniel Raymond (co-team leaders), and the staff of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (Isaac Baker, Ziad Achkar, Brittany Card, Benjamin Davies, and Steve Juntunen) Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MAAMALGAM is a concept software program embedded with analytic and professional standards and tools for remote sensing detection and collection of evidence relevant to alleged mass atrocities. This free and open-source platform will allow analysts to easily and systematically process and share with each other remote sensing data specific to predetermined repeating geospatial phenomena.
Honorable Mention
Tor-Enabled Services for Evidence Collection Radostina A. Petrova Varna, BulgariaThis proposal suggests the use of the Tor-family of products and services for evidence collection and upload on a secure Tor-enabled server, operated by trusted authorities. Additionally, encryption of evidence and its size reduction (such as conversion of images to eigenvectors, QR coding or Fourier transformation of images) are discussed for secure and faster transfer of sensitive data over the network with decoding software operated on the Tor-enabled server.
