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Speaker: Henrietta Wilson, Visiting Research Fellow and PhD Student at King's College London, and Senior Analyst for the Strategic Concept for the Removal of Arms and Proliferation SOAS University of London
Discussant: Jamie Withorne, Oslo Nuclear Project Affiliate & Research Assistant
Abstract:
How did a journalist find out who was responsible for bombing hospitals in Syria without leaving his desk in New York? How can South Sudanese activists safely track and detail the weapons in their communities, and make sure that global audiences take notice? What are policy makers, lawyers, and intelligence agencies doing to keep up with and make use of these activities? A team of authors tackle these questions in their new book "Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google."
This new interdisciplinary book seeks to answer these questions and more, with contributions by prize-winning practitioners, experts, and rising stars from across the open source investigation community. Painting a comprehensive picture of the digital information space today, it explores the manner and methods in which current open source investigations are conducted, as well as examines the opportunities and challenges they present to salient issues to the information environment such as trust and transparency, accountability, justice, amongst others."
Speaker bio:
Henrietta Wilson conducts policy-relevant research on armaments and arms regulations and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules on politics and international relations at UK universities. She is a Visiting Research Fellow and PhD student at King’s College London, and Senior Analysts for the SCRAP weapons project at SOAS University of London. Her co-edited collection Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google is due out in summer 2023.