In this project, Holis explored how communities and legal experts might use big data and AI to deter human rights abuses and increase convictions.
We collaborated with Dr John Stevens and Iulia Ionescu from the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Roland Harwood from Liminal to design and deliver this workshop for RCA Global Innovation Design students. To make the workshop real and up-to-date, we had the support of special advisors: Professor Yvonne MacDermott-Rees (Professor of Law, War Crimes at Swansea University), Jeff Deutch (Syrian Archive) and Dr David Boyle (AI / ML technology at Imperial College.
By designing and running a bespoke workshop for the RCA students and involving the right experts at the right time, Holis produced exciting projects with the students in a very short time. One of these outcomes was Project X.
Project X is a service that enables protestors to record and publish videos of the police and authorities anonymously without fear of being targeted. This service leverages advances in facial recognition and image generation using GANs and social media networks' social graphs to help people anonymise others and themselves when capturing media during protests. It allows for both freedom of expression for protestors and creates a source of authentic media content for academics, news outlets, and officials.