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Article

27 Oct 2012

Author:
Caleb Garling, San Francisco Chronicle

Tech contest for tools to end atrocities

A humanitarian group plans to fight atrocities abroad, like the genocides in Congo or South Sudan, using a very simple idea: Make geeks compete to save people's lives...The first two sections of the competition, beginning this week, will focus on technologies that shed light on corporations that - often unknowingly - aid atrocities with their choices of suppliers or policies...