page_title: Nathaniel Raymond
section_title: Satellite surveillance
hierarchical_section_title: Nathaniel Raymond / Satellite surveillance
caption_attribution_description: English: Nathaniel Raymond - PopTech 2013 - Camden, ME
context_page_description: Nathaniel Raymond is an American human rights investigator, specializing in the investigation of war crimes, including mass killings and torture. Raymond directed the anti-torture campaign at Physicians for Human Rights, and the utilization of satellite surveillance by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Raymond advocates the use of intelligence by human rights groups and other non-governmental organizations.
context_section_description: Raymond was the director of operations for the Satellite Sentinel Project, a program sponsored by George Clooney, and coordinated through the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, which utilized satellite imagery and other information to produce reports on the security situation in the Sudan. In 2011, the Satellite Sentinel Project detected images of freshly-dug mass grave sites in the Southern Kordofan state of Sudan, where Sudan’s Arab military had been targeting the black ethnic minority. Raymond stated that the Sudanese military violated the Geneva Conventions during their capture of the town of Abyei.
  Raymond founded and currently directs Harvard's Signal Program, which conducts research and teaching on the use of technology to document and prevent human rights violations. Raymond has advocated the use of human intelligence and satellite surveillance to investigate and prevent human rights abuses, but has also expressed concerns about the misapplication or abuse of that data. The Signal Program is developing guidelines for how human rights workers should interpret satellite data. Raymond has also stated that an ethics code should be created for the use of crisis mapping. For his work with satellite surveillance, Raymond was named a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow in 2013.
caption: Raymond in 2013 at a PopTech event
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