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26 June 2025

Digital Investigations: OSINT, trade data and AI

Three panellists talk through the innovative methods they used in recent investigations. The new digital methodologies allowed each to chase down important stories from major gaps in flood support funding from the Nigerian government, through sanctions evasion in arms trafficking to Russia, to the exploitation and abuse rife within platforms such as OnlyFans.

27 June 2025

OSINT: 101 Places to Investigate Your Country

Would you like to find information about your country in foreign databases, public records and institutions? Are you looking for hidden story gems? This Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) session will equip you with useful knowledge and links how to track reliable information in international online reading rooms, databases and platforms beyond traditional national sources.

26 June 2025

OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

Learn from a corporate intelligence analyst how to investigate a person's digital footprint through interactive demonstrations and case studies. Journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints.

26 June 2025

OSINT: Building Investigations with Open Source Intelligence

This session explores how advanced research tools and methods can transform everyday information into compelling investigative leads and evidence. By focusing on publicly available sources of information (search engines, social media, satellite imagery and more), attendees will learn how to uncover powerful evidence, hidden in plain sight.

4 July 2024

Locating State Violence: OSINT and Geolocation. Hands-On. [B]

This workshop is an introduction to the principles and techniques of Forensic Architecture and open-source human rights investigations more broadly. This session will cover open-source research and geolocation, as well as basic media and spatial analysis.

4 July 2024

OSINT: Uncovering Digital Footprints

Learn from a corporate intelligence analyst how to investigate a person's digital footprint through interactive demonstrations and case studies. Journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints.

29 June 2023

Time Travel for Beginners: How to Create and Use Web Archives. Hands-on.

Hands-on. Ever relied upon an online source, only later to find it deleted or changed? Ever wanted to travel back in time? This class will cover the next best thing: web archives. We'll look at getting the most out of resources like the Wayback Machine -- what they're good for, and what they're not.

29 June 2023

Ukraine: Investigations in the Shadow of Invasion

The Russian invasion of Ukraine changed many of the topics covered by Ukrainian investigative journalists, though the key investigative techniques have often remained the same. Elena Loginova speaks about an investigation by the OCCRP, The Banality of Brutality.

29 June 2023

OSINT: Investigation Using Images

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe’s top open-source intelligence specialists, this session will focus on using images in an investigation. It will show how to find images, including searching by face, finding locations and verifying information using reverse image searching.

29 June 2023

OSINT: Finding People

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe's top open-source intelligence specialists, this session will demonstrate techniques for locating and investigating people using various resources and detective skills like jigsaw identification.