1. Open Society human rights
internship workshop
Manushak Aslanyan
Huridocs/NGO Women for Development
April 2013, Budapest

2. Expertise of Huridocs
Huridocs helps human rights organizations to use technologies and
documentation methods through:
•developing tool and techniques for information management
• training and capacity building of NGOs
• provision of documentation techniques, monitoring methods,
search technology to access human rights documentation, tools to
document human rights violations,
• supports NGOs to build website in order to maximize their
impact

3. Communication and Information
management tools for NGOs: WordPress
WordPress
•a user friendly web software for creating websites and blogs
• over 60 million or more than 17% websites worldwide
(e.g. New York Times, Yahoo, CNN, BBC America, etc.)
• free to start and simple to use
• flexible, easy to publish and manage information/users
• own the website/content and work with wordpress
community

4. Communication and Information management
WordPress
• Choose a web host
• Download and install the WordPress
• Choose a theme and start exploring
• Go through the online manual and join local
WordCamp community
Start as a blog at WordPress Blog: www.wordpress.com

5. Websites essentials
The audience – who is the website addressed?
User experience – tourists vs regular visitors
Mapping – draft scheme of the website
Content – work on the content
Some ideas:
http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag-cloud/

6. Communication and Information management
tools for NGOs: e–newsletter
Mail Chimp makes it easy to create and share e–newsletters
for different purposes
•free for up to 2000 subscribers /12.000 emails per
month/ easy to share via social networks‑
•track your campaign and get reports (graphics, maps,
tables)
• great support team

7. Mailchimp e–newsletter
• Sign up on www.mailchimp.com
• Create a list in your account and import subscribers’
emails
• Establish groups within the list
• Create campaign and select the list/group
• Choose an existing template and add the content
• Send test emails and then the campaign

8. Communication and Information management
tools for NGOs: OpenEvsys
OpenEvsys: is a free open source database application that
can be used by human rights organizations to:
• record human rights violations and store related
documents, manage information
•browse the history/details of a specific victim or case
•filter the cases through the powerful search system

9. OpenEvsys features
• OpenEvsys can be used from a web sever and make it
easy to share/work from different office locations
• OpenEvsys has a powerful search system, which allows
to filter information according to gender, region, date,
etc.
• OpenEvsys can be easily customized, allowing to
delete/replace a field you do not need
• You can control each user’s access to specific
information
• OpenEvsys is multilingual

10. Communication and Information
management tools for NGOs: CaseBox
• Integrated document and task management
• Customised to your needs and the way you work
• Assign tasks and deadlines easily
• Receive notifications for new tasks
• Monitor progress and workload

11. CaseBox: Document Management
• Access documents wherever you are
• Identify latest draft – keep track of version history
• Add information to folders (e.g. articles alleged to be
violated)
• See tasks related to document (e.g. revise draft)

12. Permission Scheme
• Manage for every single document who can read, write
or delete
• Use groups and individuals to quickly manage
permissions
• Make sure sensitive data is protected

13. Thank you!