Project HURIWEAR:
Human Rights Wearable Computer
Our primary research project is named HURIWEAR (for Human
Rights Wearable): the world's first secure wearable
computer for humanitarian users. It is both a personal safety device
and a means for securely exchanging authenticated information between
humanitarian and newsgathering organizations and their people in the field:
those on the very front-most lines of the struggle for global justice.
Our central research project is named HURIWEAR (Human Rights Wearable):
all of our hardware and software projects are also
components of the HURIWEAR Project. HURIWEAR represents the ultimate
multidisciplinary merger of free, open source information technology
and human rights fieldwork, within a highly secure, robust,
mobile, wireless-network computing environment. Someday, we plan to
equip legions of humanitarian workers — human rights &
medical aid workers, journalists and others working toward the
betterment of humanity in dangerous regions — with these
systems.
HURIWEAR devices will include fully integrated HR/Journalism
productivity software environment and audio/video capabilities.
Various models will be available with different form-factors
(configurations) and capabilities for different security
environments, all running a freeware Operating System with secure
data environment based on public key cryptography.
HURIWEAR Users will have realtime access to a core set of
applications (e.g. email, web browser, text editing, database,
multimedia, etc), all running under a dramatically simplified version
of Linux. They will have secure communications (phone, radio, email,
conferencing) with all of the other members of their organizations at
any time and any place (satellite-accessible) on Earth. The hardware
will also give them real-time audio and video capability, an
essential set of tools for journalists who work in frontier areas.
Thus, in addition to increasing the safety and security of the
humanitarians and their local colleagues working in the field,
HURIWEAR Users will also make all of us witnesses to what they are
seeing and hearing.
Team Leader:
Dave Del Torto
Principal Investigators:
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