Tools for Human Rights provides tools and software to help organizations with their information needs. Casebox is a virtual office that allows teams to collaborate on documents and tasks through a web browser. Opendata.ge is a portal for freedom of information requests in Georgia that measures government performance and allows citizens to access responses. OpenEvsys is a database for documenting human rights violations that can be customized and includes data analysis and visualization features. More information and access to live demos of the software are provided.

1. Tools for Human Rights
Point, Sarajevo, 23 May 2014

2. Who we are and what we do
● Harness the power of information for human
rights
● Work with organisations on solving their
information problems, often using software
● Develop free and open source software (when
there is a problem that needs a new
solution), released under GPL licenses
● Based in Geneva, founded in 1982

3. Casebox
● Virtual office for teams
● Collaborate on documents, assign and
organise tasks – all in the browser
● Track projects, cases, requests and visualise
where you are
● Manage who sees what and publish public
information to a website

4. Opendata.ge

5. Opendata.ge
● Portal for freedom of information requests
and responses
● Measure government performance (who is
late, who ignores)
● Citizens, civil society access the responses
(examples: list of all ships registered under
Georgian flag, bonuses of officials)
● Collaboration of four NGOs

6. Casebox

7. Opendata.ge

8. Casebox
● Learn more: www.casebox.org
● Access the live online demo:
https://www.casebox.org/try
● Workshop tomorrow where we can model
your idea for using Casebox
● Get the code:
https://github.com/KETSE/casebox

9. OpenEvsys
● Database to document human rights
violations
● Built on the Events Methodology, it can be
adjusted to your methodology and needs
● Available in ten languages, easy to translate
● Useful for entering data in a structured way
and to analyse it, to quickly create
visualisations

10. OpenEvsys

11. OpenEvsys

12. Hafiza Merkezi
http://www.zorlakaybetmeler.org/

13. OpenEvsys
● Learn more:
http://www.huridocs.org/openevsys/
● Access the live demo:
http://oedemo.openevsys.org/
● Get the code:
https://github.com/huridocs/OpenEvSys

14. Thanks!
E-mail: friedhelm@huridocs.org
Twitter: @whyfrycek, @huridocs
Web: www.huridocs.org