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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 1

For my 1st post on Bluesky I am thrilled to provide you all with little antidote to the doomscroll... the HURIDOCS 2024 Annual Report! In it you will find inspiring stories of using information, data and solid documentation methodologies to support justice and advocacy initiatives around the world.

HURIDOCS @huridocs.org · Jul 1

📢 HURIDOCS 2024 Annual Report is out!

🌍 Explore how we strengthened documentation tools alongside 73 partners in 38 countries. This year was all about resilience, innovation, and collective action to strengthen human rights around the world.

🔗Read the full report: huridocs.org/2025/07/2024...

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · 20d

Heading to NYC for #UNGA week 🌍

I’ll be talking:
🤖 ML & AI for civil society
🛠️ FOSS tools built by and for movements
🔗 Interoperability beyond Big Tech
📊 What @huridocs.org docs is building to strengthen documentation, advocacy & justice

Stay tuned for updates! Reach out!

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

At @huridocs.org, we're committed to strengthening the digital security ecosystem, not just as observers, but by ensuring our tools actively support defenders. Hope you’ll join us!

#digisec #HRDs #digitalinfra

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

Want to dive deeper? Join our launch webinar Thursday, 24 July at 15:00 CET!

Hear Tomiwa present, plus reflections from defenders in DRC, Zimbabwe & Kenya. Register here 👇

🔗 huridocs.org/2025/07/webi...

Webinar & launch of research report: Use of digital security tools by human rights defenders in African contexts | HURIDOCS

Join the launch of the research report by Dr Tomiwa Ilori, exploring how human rights defenders in four African countries are using digital security tools to protect themselves and their work.

huridocs.org

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

3/ 🤝 Co‑design gap: Everyone agrees on the importance of co‑design—but budgets/headcount rarely match the ambition needed for meaningful inclusion.

#codesign #developers

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

2/ 🌍 Inclusive and civil society led infrastructure matters & should be supported. Tools must be affordable, accessible offline or in low-connectivity areas and in languages defenders actually speak.

#digitalinfra

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

My takeaways:

1/ 🔐 Embed security into dev: tools like Uwazi need to be reliable components of HRDs’ digital defenses even if built by orgs like HURIDOCS that aren't #digisec org per se

www.uwazi.io

Home - Manage your data with Uwazi and find what matters • Uwazi

Uwazi docs

www.uwazi.io

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

📚 Two findings really stood out, especially for HURIDOCS:

Finding 4: Real digital security is more than #digisec specific tools, it must be baked into dev processes of ALL human rights tech.

Finding 5: We need infrastructure that’s affordable, offline-capable, and in local languages.

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 21

After years working in digital security for civil society & HRDs, I’m thrilled w this report by @huridocs.org @opentechfund.bsky.social fellow Dr Tomiwa Ilori. It launches Thursday, 24 July, & explores how HRDs in DRC, Kenya, Senegal & Zimbabwe use digital security tools. My thoughts in thread 👇

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

18/ The space is messy, political, and urgent. There’s harm, but also a lot of possibility.

Read here my interventions at the session organized by @Geneva platform @FPF

Thanks for reading 💬👀
huridocs.org/2025/07/ai-f...

AI for Human Rights: Innovation, Integrity, and the Ethical Imperative | HURIDOCS

HURIDOCS Executive Director reflects after the AI for Good Summit on the ethical use of AI for human rights documentation.

huridocs.org

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

17/ If you’re into open source, rights-based, civil society-led tech, check out HURIDOCS

We build documentation tools, including ML, but we are more than the tech. We are human rights activists. Wanna support? 💸 huridocs.org/donate/

Donate | HURIDOCS

With your help, HURIDOCS will continue to support human rights defenders to mobilise information for justice and accountability.

huridocs.org

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

16/ Also, should NGOs start offsetting the impact of our own AI use like we do with travel?

Feels like a convo worth having if we want to lead by example 🧾🌍

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

15/ There were a few shoutouts to open source but honestly, not enough.

We need open, rights-based tech more than ever. It’s one of the only real counterweight to Big Tech and a community more willing & able to center different prioritizations 🧠🛡️

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

14/ Right now, AI will lie to you before it says “I don’t know.” That’s not neutral, that’s by design.

What if we built systems & models that prioritized accuracy, sustainability or human rights over speed? 🤔

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

13/ Someone floated the idea of a “carbon offset” button or at least a prompt that tells you how much energy or water your query will use.

Click “run” or “rethink”? Imagine the difference a bit of choice could make 🖱️🌡️

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

12/ Use smaller models. Limit prompt length. Ask AI to keep it short.

Simple things can reduce impact and we need to learn & adopt these in our orgs if we use AI 🛠️

ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

11/ We’ve got to start talking about infrastructure.

Existing data centers were not built for GenAI, which is why they suck up energy and water like there’s no tomorrow ⚡💧

Who’s building green, fit-for-purpose data centers? If you are, let us know!

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

10/ The session on “Innovations in Environmentally Efficient AI” gave me hope. It was the first time I’ve heard people share actual, practical ideas towards harm reduction. I’m a big fan of the realistic possibilities in harm reduction. @itu.int‬

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

9/Even when AI is being used “for good,” the supply chain behind it is still harmful. Let’s not pretend otherwise 🧱💸

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

8/It’s not about whether AI can be used for good.
The real question is: who has the power to make sure it actually is? 💥

Catherine Bracey, author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy, thank you for that one! ‪

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

‪7/@marietjeschaake.bsky.social‬ author of Tech Coup asked “Why are we still joking about politicians not understanding tech, but not laughing at, and calling out, big tech leaders who don’t understand democracy, governance or rule of law?”🙄 This one hit right.

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

6/ Everyone’s busy asking what the “future of work” looks like but what about the future of human rights work?

Our jobs are changing, our funding is under threat, we need to be active in defining what comes next 💼✊

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

5/ “Keep humans in the loop” only works if those humans actually understand what they’re dealing with. If we don’t train & empower people, we’re just deepening the digital divide.

How do we raise our sector’s collective knowledge and critical tech literacy around AI? 📉

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech.

The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social‬ for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒

genevasolutions.news/science-tech...

UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions

A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.

genevasolutions.news

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

3/ In this space there is a lot of talk about frameworks for regulation, a shout-out to Peggy Hicks from #OHCHR who said: We don’t need a new framework. We already have one — international human rights.

Our job now is to apply it and enforce it ✅

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ingleton.bsky.social @ingleton.bsky.social · Jul 11

2/The obvious doesn’t appear to be that obvious to many. There’s a serious contradiction at play here: we’re using AI to fight for human rights and climate justice… while the tech itself is harming both.

Is AI fundamentally incompatible with human rights? HT @abeba.bsky.social‬

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