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Martus Helping human rights advocates protect, manage, and effectively utilize information

Martus Helping human rights advocates protect, manage, and effectively utilize information. Benetech: Technology Serving Humanity. Benetech Initiatives: Global Literacy – Bookshare Human Rights Program – Martus Benetech Labs – Environment Social Coding for Good.

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Martus Helping human rights advocates protect, manage, and effectively utilize information

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  1. Martus Helping human rights advocates protect, manage, and effectively utilize information

  2. Benetech: Technology Serving Humanity Benetech Initiatives: • Global Literacy – Bookshare • Human Rights Program – Martus • Benetech Labs – Environment Social Coding for Good

  3. Benetech Human Rights Program A non-profit organization Martus – Secure human rights information management software Martus Outreach and Support Team: martus@benetech.org https://www.martus.org http://www.benetech.org

  4. Information: An Advocate's Vital Asset National Police Archives, Guatemala City, Guatemala

  5. The Wish List • Easy to use • Affordable • Easy to customize • Flexibility with data sharing • “Cloud” Backup servers for safeguarding information • Ability to search and report on information

  6. The Martus Information Management and Data Collection Framework • Free • Open source • Secure

  7. The Martus Workspace

  8. Create records to save information in Martus

  9. Attach any type of file to a Martus bulletin Examples: • Photos • Scanned images • Text files • Spreadsheets

  10. Visualize photo attachment geo-location metadata

  11. Martus: Secure by Design Martus uses a well-established form of encryption also used by: • Banks • Commercial websites • Security products such as PGP • (Pretty Good Privacy: http://www.pgpi.org/doc/overview/)

  12. Encryption Martus automatically encrypts your information and backs it up via a secure (SSL) connection over the Internet to a Martus server of your choice.

  13. Encryption: How does it work? Example: HELLO Algorithm: rotation Key: 2 Encrypted text: JGNNQ This is a very simple example to illustrate the concept of encryption. Martus uses a much more complex algorithm of encryption that scrambles the record so that it can only be read by people with the right key. Encryption protects the records easily and automatically.

  14. Encryption:What does it look like? What they see: What you see:

  15. Backing up information in Martus • Martus automatically backs up records to remote cloud servers. • Martus servers are setup around the world, including in: • Canada • Ireland • Brazil

  16. Martus over Tor

  17. Share your information with other Martus users

  18. Backing up to the servers

  19. End-to-End Encryption:Cornerstone of digital secrecy Without encryption...

  20. End-to-End Encryption:Cornerstone of digital secrecy With encryption...

  21. Choose different configurations based on the needs of your organization

  22. Choose different configurations based on the needs of your organization

  23. Choose different configurations based on the needs of your organization

  24. Martus is highly customizable

  25. Why customize? • Organize information in a consistent way • Especially helpful if you are working with other people • Make sure you have collected all of the useful pieces of information • Facilitate data entry • Prevent inconsistency and errors

  26. Searching in Martus In the main Martus taskbar: • Perform a simple text Search across all of your records. In the Advanced Search menu: • Search on specific standard or custom fields – to focus your search • Use AND/OR search functionality - to sharpen your search. • Save Search specifications - to use them again later

  27. Create reports in Martus

  28. Create charts in Martus

  29. More mobility: Mobile Martus Martus for Android • Write-only (Send-only) • Interacts with other mobile apps • Attach files • Saves Martus data to cloud server • Download saved data in the Martus desktop

  30. More mobility: Mobile Martus

  31. More mobility: Mobile Martus

  32. More security: Martus on Tails • Amnesic • Wipes all traces on shutdown • Incognito • All internet traffic is anonymized • Locked down • File system is read-only • Portable • Install to USB stick, DVD or SD card

  33. Martus Users are Worldwide

  34. Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma The ND-Burma network has been using Martus since 2004 to secure and share stories of human rights abuse inside Burma nd-burma.org

  35. Guatemalan National Police Archive Project Martus has been used to manage and encrypt information from the millions of documents in the Guatemalan National Police Archives.

  36. Security is a Practice: Other tools • OpenPGP for email encryption • Pidgin/Adium/Cryptocat for encrypted chat • Jitsi for encrypted VOIP • Tor for anonymous browsing • Whole disk encryption

  37. Welcome to the Martus Community! Thank you! martus@benetech.org

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