NGO-in-a-Box

Dmitri Vitaliev
Project manager and Russian editor

Dmitri has worked for Front Line for two years and is the systems administrator as well as an assistant to Front Line's research in the Russan speaking community of human rights defenders. He is a trainer in new technologies, information security, digital privacy and has organised, presented and lead a number of related workshops and projects for Front Line and a number of other human rights organisation around the world. Dmitri has fluent English and Russian.

Wojtek Bogusz
Consultant and content editor

Wojtek has been involved as a manager, organiser and programmer in numerous varied educational, social, non-profit, environmental, scientific and commercial Internet related projects in various countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. He has long experience with application of FOSS in NGO environment in developing countries.

Cormac McGuire
Technical writer

Cormac is recent graduate from DIT University with a degree in Computer Science. Areas of expertise include technical writing, systems security and administration. Cormac has written numerous technical papers whilst attending University, including a study of malware, its authors and countermeasures. Also as part of his Final Year project Cormac prepared a dissertation on 3D graphics.

Eimear Bruen
Graphic design and multimedia

Eimear comes from a background in Fine Art and Multimedia. Her skill base includes graphic design, film editing, animation, and interactive web design.

Khalid Ibrahim
Arabic editor

Khalid obtained an M. Sc. in Health Informatics from Trinity College Dublin and is completing his PhD thesis "Using telecommunication and communications technology for the enhancement of human rights protection". Khalid is a research assistant on the Middle East at Front Line and has a long history of working for Iraqi human rights organizations.

Rosemary Warner
Lead project tester

Rosemary has been involved as a volunteer in human rights work since 1992. She was a founder member of the Amnesty International (Irish Section) Refugee Working Group, and acting as a Refugee Coordinator for the Irish Section of Amnesty in 1995-6. Currently Rosemary works for Integrating Ireland, the independent network of community and voluntary groups working with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on a project to produce a report on access to third level education and recognition of qualifications for ethnic minorities in Ireland.

Project testers team:

• Sergei Smirnoff - Human Rights Network Moscow, Russia
• Jagdish Parikh – Human Rights Watch New York, USA
• Veronique Bassot - Coordinadora de la Area Internacional Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Guerrero, Mexico
• Eoin Murray – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Gaza, Palestine

With support from Tactical Technology Collective staff:

• Stephanie Hankey - co-founder and partner
• Michal Mach - NGO-in-a-box product manager