Summer Conference Events

In April 2019, using open-source intelligence and secret government documents, a team of journalists at the new French investigative outlet Disclose published a scoop on French arms sales to Yemen – as a result of which they faced harassment by French military intelligence and now a possible jail sentence.

This course will be broken down into two sessions, which take place on the same day. Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe’s leading open source intelligence specialists and a pioneer of open source research.

Tracking agents of the Russian secret service and their European operations requires employing the full range of open-source intelligence techniques. This class will show you many tips and tricks, while explaining how they were used in a range of investigations looking into GRU activities in Switzerland, Bulgaria and elsewhere.

What is “chronolocation” and why do we need it? How do we research deceiving Instagrams? What is wrong with Google reverse image search? What is the hidden connection between Instagram and Facebook?

Who is the mysterious person behind a mining contract in the Central African Republic? What do you do when you have only a very common name and no photos? And what to do when a Twitter account is completely deleted?

More than 10,000 civilians have died since the Saudi-led war against Yemen’s Houthis began in 2015. While traditional field investigations are still critical to covering the crisis, open source monitoring and investigations are increasingly playing a role in holding power to account.

This session teaches you how to make searchable document archives. Transparency Toolkit recently built a hosted archive service to help journalists compile, explore, filter, and publish large sets of documents.