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GEO-FORENSICS? When Satellite Experts Take a Closer Look at Human Rights Cases

Billion dollars are invested yearly in very sophisticated satellite observation technology used in the intelligence world. But today this world is losing the monopoly of accurate geospatial information: interdependent, inter-linked systems give new users new perspectives on the information age, more access to data, more outreach, more of just about anything. Some of these advancements have become available to everyone through commercial enterprises and may be useful in improving old ways of doing things in the international community arena….

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Are they helping others or helping themselves ?

“Every now and then we go through this awakening process that really makes us feel used and manipulated,” a colleague told me the other day. Some time ago the Norwegian documentary film “The Famine Scam” was awarded first prize for its outstanding journalistic work on the “famine” in Niger. Let us go back to July 2005 when we were confronted with photos of starving children in Niger. The UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in those days informed journalists that more than…

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