It was easy to overlook the technology and booth exhibits at the recent Soul of the New Machine conference sponsored by Berkeley's Human Rights Center, what with all the great panels and talks. One could lose sight of what was enabling all this information to fly around the world at warp speed, making it, we hope, so soon there will be no place for bad guys to hide out. Just kidding.
But my eyes were truly opened wide about all the cool new mobile aps that were springing up everywhere you looked. Cell Alert is using mobile phones to help Sri Lankan girls (in Sri Lanka) get web development jobs as soon as they are posted on elance.com so they can make some money for the family. The Guardian, an Android phone software, lets you go into real mobile stealth mode, letting ordinary citizens become human rights watchdogs in scary places. And the Bug Base, my personal favorite, lets you take a device not much bigger than an iPod or iPhone and become a Linux-based data collector and transmitter by plugging in modules.
Read more about the amazing technology highlights on the Netsquared site or just enjoy the photos here.
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