Deputy Director for Digital Investigations
Milena Marin is the Deputy Director for Digital Investigations, Amnesty International. Milena leads the Evidence Lab, Amnesty International’s digital investigations team, which works to advance digital methods in human rights research.
With a career spanning fifteen years at the intersection of technology, data and social advocacy, Milena has worked to defend human rights, increase public sector transparency, fight corruption and promote open data. Her work includes leading Amnesty Decoders, a pioneering initiative that uses data science, crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to sift through and analyse large volumes of data for human rights research. Prior to Amnesty International, Milena led the School of Data, a data literacy programme where she trained and mentored activists and journalists to use data for social impact. She has also worked with Transparency International, enabling the organisation’s global network to use technology in the fight against corruption.
In this article we provide a technical exploration of the potential of artificial intelligence for large-scale analysis of satellite data to detect the destruction of human settlements, with a case study on Sudan’s Darfur region. We would like to say a special thanks to all those who contributed to this work, including Milena Marin, Micah…
Did you know that most social media tools strip out metadata from images we share, as well as compressing them? While there are good privacy and optimization reasons to do this, it makes it very hard for open source investigators to determine who is pictured in a photo, what they are doing (and why), as…
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