This course offers an introduction to internet shutdowns, including an overview of the shutdown problem and examples of different ways governments shut down the internet and other communications channels. It will examine how internet shutdowns exacerbate human rights abuses and interfere with democratic processes. The course looks into who is fighting back and multi-stakeholder advocacy strategies used by the global #KeepItOn coalition to end internet shutdowns.

Introduction to Internet Shutdowns

Advocating and Campaigning Against Internet Shutdowns

#KeepItOn Campaign Manager, Access Now

Felicia Anthonio

@FelAnthonio

Introduction to the course

The facts on internet shutdowns

How internet shutdowns harm human rights?

Quiz - The basics of internet shutdowns

History of internet shutdowns - From Egypt to Myanmar

Defining internet shutdowns (#KeepItOn definition)

Technical means to shutdown the internet

Quiz - Am I experiencing an internet shutdown

What are internet shutdowns?

Why internet shutdowns are a barrier to elections

Civil unrest, protests and shutdowns

What activists need to know

Case study - Susan Mwape, Common Cause Zambia Case study

Quiz - activity

Cuba Case Study - Norges Rodríguez, Yucabyte

Internet shutdowns and democracy

Tips for planning for shutdowns during elections and civil unrest

About the #KeepItOn Coalition

Internet shutdown monitoring tools

Liaising with national and International institutions over shutdowns

Why the private sector matters

Advocacy and internet shutdowns

Wrap up video

Course survey

Conclusion

Access Now

Data are everywhere - if you know where to look. This course will show you who is publishing data, and how to find it. Using publicly available data to tell stories is becoming more and more important for journalists today. Learning how to source and verify data is essential to finding important stories. But before you begin telling a story, how do you go about finding open data in the first place?

Open data research for journalists

Jonathan Stoneman

Introduction to course

Who publishes open data?

What can data do for me? Interview with Megan Lucero

How open is open data?

Open data quiz

What is open data?

Main sources of data

Quiz: Sources for data

Official sources of data

Government and other sources

Searching for data: Using advanced search techniques

What if it's a PDF?

Exercise: Find the table

Scraping data

Interview with data journalist Leila Haddou

Quiz: Handling datasets and scraping

Trusted sources

Privacy and the law

Quiz: Handling data and privacy

Data privacy and the law

Making progress with data

Iran Spotlight

This course will provide you with an overview of why organized groups are an essential driver for addressing community needs, how people can play a role as a group leader and how to operate better as an effective group.

Succeeding Together: Forming Effective Groups for Advocacy

Nima Nariman

@neuronima 

The basics of forming a strong group

Case study: Citizen Lebanon

Quiz: Community needs

You are a leader

Building Relationships

What types of groups are  there?

Getting started - forming a new community group

Quiz

Leadership, Relationships and Groups

Building an effective group

Start with good relationships

Values and aspirations

Quiz: Good and Bad vision statements

Building the organization

Building the organization - Resources

Building the organization - networks and coalitions

Building the organization - growth and learning

Quiz: Effective groups

Building an Effective Group

An introduction to working well

Holding and facilitating an effective meeting

Decision Making

Conflict Management

Ethics and accountability

Quiz: Working together

Working Well Together

Nabz Iran

This course will provide you with an overview of what you need to consider when you are filming in an environment where human rights violations may be taking place. You’ll learn about different ways of filming and the importance of maintaining the integrity of your video content so it can potentially be used as evidence in a court of law.

Five top tips to improve your video skills

Capturing, Storing & Sharing Video Evidence

Raja Althaibani 

@rajaalthaibani

Documenting Human Rights Violations During Internet Shutdowns

Yvonne Ng

@ng_yvonne

Safety First

Video for legal purposes

Quiz: Safety

Introduction

Your role: The intentional documenter

What, Who & How

The Collection Plan

Quiz: What, who and how

Getting ready to film

Metadata: What is it?

More metadata tips

Filming Tips

Writing a camera report

Quiz:  Filming key points

Filming

Chain of custody

Protecting your footage

Managing your media

Organising and tracking your footage

Quiz: Protecting your footage

Protect your footage

Sharing your footage with a trusted few

Sharing your footage publically

Quiz: Sharing your footage

Sharing your footage

WITNESS

How can you make your videos stand out from the crowd? This course teaches you five ways to take your video production skills to the next level. We cover depth of field, sound, video formats, metadata and archiving.

The rise of video production

All about depth of field

Quiz: Depth of field

The Protest - Part 1

Video and depth of field

The importance of good sound

Sounds good to me

Testing, testing...Your chance to record good sound

Recording good sound

Let’s get technical - Deconstructing digital video

Techie quiz - What’s the difference between 1080p and 720i

Video formats - Technical basics

Introduction to metadata

Meta what? Test your understanding of metadata

The Protest - Part 4

Data about data

Shelf life: How to archive video

On the shelf - Video archiving case study quiz

Shelf life

It’s a wrap - Overview of the course

Get Shooting wrap video

It's a Wrap

What happens when the database you need to help your advocacy or social development project is a jumbled mess? No download button, no CSV file, no structured dataset. You see the information you want locked in PDF reports, in social networks (like Twitter and Instagram), or even in webpages, but you can't really do anything with it. No more! We will show you how to quickly and easily extract information from these non-structured sources into useful datasets. You will get data you thought were never accessible before, giving your projects a new level of refinement and relevance.

A Gentle Introduction to Scraping Data

Marco Túlio Pires

@mtrpires  

What is scraping?

My first scraper: Me!

Scraping, an introduction

Using ABBY FineReader Online  to extract data from PDFs

Using Tabula to extract tabular data from PDFs

My second scraper: unlocking PDF files!

Unlocking data from PDF files

Scraping Twitter data using IFTTT

My third scraper: Twitter & Instagram

Scraping data from Twitter & Instagram

A brief introduction to HTML

Using the webinspector

Uncovering the secrets of web pages

Using Google Sheets formulas to scrape data

Scraping data from webpages using Google Sheets

Scraping wikipedia

Scraping webpages, Part 1

Scraping data from webpages using Web Scraper

Web scraping

Scraping webpages, Part 2

School of Data

Risk Assessments are an essential tool for evaluating threats and risks to you as a freelance journalist on assignment. This course will help you to understand the principles of a good risk assessment and show you how to put together your own professional document with tips and techniques from security experts and experienced freelance journalists.

Important: This course does not replace Hostile Environment Training and we recommend that anyone planning to travel to, or work in a hostile environment should undertake certified safety and first aid training. For more about approved course providers and Rory Peck Trust training bursaries for freelance journalists visit http://bit.ly/2aZ8vEW

Courses

Open data research for journalists

Open data research for journalists

Succeeding Together: Forming Effective Groups for Advocacy

Succeeding Together: Forming Effective Groups for Advocacy

Capturing, Storing & Sharing Video Evidence

Capturing, Storing & Sharing Video Evidence

Five top tips to improve your video skills

Five top tips to improve your video skills

A Gentle Introduction to Scraping Data

A Gentle Introduction to Scraping Data

Risk Assessments for Freelance Journalists

Risk Assessments for Freelance Journalists

Visualise your data with the best charts and graphs

Visualise your data with the best charts and graphs

Cleaning and Analysing Data

Cleaning and Analysing Data

Media match-making for freelance Iranian journalists

Media match-making for freelance Iranian journalists

Data Gathering for Beginners

Data Gathering for Beginners

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies