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Article

29 Dec 2010

Author:
Jenara Nerenberg, Fast Company

Google and George Clooney Aim Satellites at Sudan, Become "Anti-Genocide Paparazzi"

George Clooney is joining Google, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the United Nations in an effort called the Satellite Sentinel Project to monitor violence and human rights violations in Sudan as the country prepares to vote on January 9... the employment of satellites is meant to give war-mongers on the ground the message that the world is watching and genocide will not be tolerated...[UNOSAT] will collect and analyze the satellite images...The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative...will provide field research and Google is setting up a web platform to provide public access to information with the goal of pressuring public officials...[J. Hutson, Enough Project:] "What is new and transforming is the concept of leveraging Google Map Maker into a public human rights and human security early warning system to stop a war before it starts"…