Find what matters with Uwazi An open-source information management solution for the human rights community Human rights groups are often confronted with enormous amounts of data and information, accumulating years’ or even decades’ worth of facts, observations, testimonies, research and materials that support the case for change. To address this challenge, the open-source human rights documentation tool Uwazi was launched in 2017. Uwazi, which means ‘openness’ in Swahili, is a flexible web-based database application designed for human rights defenders to manage their collections of information, including documents, evidence, cases and complaints. More recently, Uwazi started to leverage machine learning to make human rights information even more accessible. P ROJ ECT S P OTLI G H T Justice Watch Archive What can you do with Uwazi? 1 2 3 4 Collect & Categorise Store & Analyse Collaborate & Protect Assess & Showcase • Capture and organise raw data, including text, documents, images and video. • Store large amounts of information. • Receive information through public submission forms. • Build a public version of your collection. • Add context to your information. • Create templates to categorise and retrieve items. • Use relationships to track complex cases. • Decide what information you share with the public. • Search and filter for subsets of information. • Analyse your content by displaying it in tables, graphs and maps. • Choose what you share with each collaborator or team. • Ensure your information is safe by keeping an eye on all changes made. • Protect your accounts with an extra security layer. • Tell stories with your data and show what matters. • Export your information into commonly used formats. • Share it privately for advocacy, litigation and accountability purposes. “We believe this will significantly help in delivering and verifying the information, identifying the victims closely and showing their own narratives, and, thus, shedding more light on the perpetrators and the places where they have committed their crimes.” – Ahmed Mefreh Human rights lawyer and Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, who developed the Justice Watch Archive to document human rights violations in the context of the Egyptian justice system Read more >