The Toolkit started from a funded software grant, which enabled its main author, Basile Simon to focus on these legal and technical issues he had encountered while at Airwars.

Presently based in Berlin, Basile is a multi-disciplinary researcher bridging between engineering, law, and journalism in promoting accountability for causing harm to civilians.

As a fellow at Stanford Electrical Engineering, he is part of the Starling Lab for Data Integrity (Stanford/USC), and is a resident with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in the cross-NGO investigative group Investigative Commons.
He co-founded Airwars in 2014 and worked for the BBC, Reuters, and The Times and The Sunday Times.

Contact

📧 basile@digitalevidencetoolkit.org

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who contributed code to the original prototype of the Toolkit.
Architecture and workflow graphics by La Loma. Newsletter copywriting in 2022 by Patrick Harvey.

About our funding

The original Toolkit prototype was built and released in August 2021 with the support of the Prototype Fund, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Open Knowledge Foundation, with an additional contribution from Amazon Web Services – all of which ended in 2021.