Biography
Oren Yakobovich is a seasoned social entrepreneur who has been challenging unjust systems. He combines traditional knowledge gathering with new technology and cutting-edge tools to expose abuses and hold power to account.
His current organization, Kamara, provides holistic security and research support to individuals, organizations, movements, and their funders. It helps protect their safety by monitoring online civic space—both open and closed forums—and by continually developing strategic uses of technology and analysis. Kamara also works to build capacities for effective narratives, communications, and campaigning, and uses advanced investigative techniques to give civil society research-based insights into their adversaries.
He co-founded Videre Est Credere, an NGO that equips oppressed communities with customised technology to uncover information from places where media can’t or won’t go. Prior to that, he led the video department at B’Tselem, training hundreds of people fighting
Regional Focus
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa