This episode is being released in January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, so we are featuring a conversation from the original Civic Hacker Summit that focused on innovative tools designed to help law enforcement build cases against trafficking rings using data gleaned from the web. Civic Hacker Network Director, Lori McNeill, discusses the history, context and outcomes of a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program called Memex with then program manager, Wade Shen. Learn about this important approach to using technology to bolster law enforcement’s ability to stop criminals engaged in heinous crimes of exploitation, and how you can help continue developing the open source products.
LINKS TO INFO AND RESOURCES:
Memex Open Source projects: https://github.com/darpa-i2o/memex-program-index
Stopping Human Traffickers with Memex [article]
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