Many newsrooms now have a digital, forensic or visual analysis team harnessing the power of data and technology to design investigations on diverse themes with original and innovative focuses. This pa...
Milena Marin
Milena Marin is Deputy Director for Digital Investigations and Head of the Evidence Lab at Amnesty International, where she works on complex human rights investigations leveraging open-source information, data science and crowdsourcing. Milena has over twelve years’ experience working at the intersection of technology, data and social good on issues like human rights, public sector transparency, anti-corruption and open data. She leads Amnesty Decoders, an innovative platform using data science, crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to process and analyse large volumes of data such as documents, satellite images and pictures for human rights research.
Previously she worked as programme manager of School of Data where she trained and mentored numerous NGOs and journalists around the world to make the most of their data and reach new audiences. She also worked for over 4 years with Transparency International where she supported TI’s global network to use technology in the fight against corruption.
Join this session to learn how to set up a micro-tasking project to engage your audiences while processing large amounts of unstructured data. Learn how Amnesty International engaged tens of thousands...
Verification, Collaboration and Community Engagement: Amnesty International’s lessons from using Open Source Intelligence to monitor global human rights violations and train the next generation of ...
Join our hands on data expedition and use the skills you acquired attending the School of Data Journalism workshops. We will look at a topic and work in small, diverse groups to produce stories and ...
Data journalism is evolving at a rapid pace. Since last year’s International Journalism Festival we have seen many data stories breaking and data projects appearing around the world. We’ve seen co...
