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Speaker: Pedro Noel
Present the initiative of the Associated Whistle-Blowing Press, AWP, a decentralized network of whistle-blowing platforms and international newswire focused on denouncing human-rights violations.
About the AWP
The Associated Whistle-Blowing Press (AWP) is a not-for-profit information agency to be based in Iceland, dedicated to bringing forth and analyzing leaked information coming from different sources around the world. It aims to have a network of prominent journalists, researchers, lawyers, IT experts and media activists working together to provide society with a trustful and friendly source of analysis of information leaked by whistle-blowers around the world.
In the long run the AWP will make the whistle-blowing community more robust by automatizing the dissemination process and minimizing the effort needed for sources and analysts to make their work reach a wider audience. At the same time it will gather whistle-blowers, IT experts, researchers, activists and journalists under a formal structure, increasing the repercussion of their efforts in media channels, independent Internet sites or blogs. Thanks to this we believe the general cause for freedom of speech and information will be strengthened.
The AWP is structured as a network that functions internationally, with whistle-blowing platforms focused on specific local contexts and working with different languages.Each node allows local citizens to send information proving abuse or corruption in a safe and anonymous way: the main goal is to make governments and corporations accountable for their actions by bringing them into the light. Through these nodes, contacts in local media outlets (traditional and non-traditional) will be made in order to coordinate the submission, analysis and publishing of leaked information.