Getting started INTRODUCTION From online videos of rights violations, to Mainly, human rights researchers appeared to be satellite images of environmental degradation, overwhelmed by the possibilities. In the face of to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social limited resources, not knowing how to get started media, we have access to more relevant data today or whether it would be worthwhile, most people than ever before. When used responsibly, this we spoke to refrained from even attempting to data can help human rights professionals in the strengthen their work with digital data. courtroom, when working with governments and journalists, and in documenting historical record. field in navigating this complex environment, Acquiring, disseminating and storing digital data we convened a group of 16 researchers and is also becoming increasingly affordable. As costs technical experts in a castle outside Berlin, continue to decrease and new platforms are Germany in May 2016 to draft this guide over developed, opportunities for harnessing these four days of intense reflection and writing. data sources for human rights work increase. But integrating data collection and management into the day to day work of human rights research and documentation can be challenging, even overwhelming, for individuals and organisations. This guide is designed to help you navigate and integrate new data forms into your human rights work. It is the result of a collaboration between Amnesty International, Benetech, and The Engine Room that began in late 2015. We conducted a series of interviews, community consultations, and surveys to understand whether digital data was being integrated into human rights work. In the vast majority of cases, we found that it wasn’t. Why? 8 To support everyone in the human rights