Abstract

The Ukraine War Archive is a groundbreaking technology project that gathers, preserves, and analyses digital media related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Formed as a non-profit organisation, UWA is now the most societally-comprehensive record of the war: a live, continually updated digital platform with over 40 million data points covering the military, civil, social, and physical impacts of the conflict. UWA is also remarkable for its innovative use of decentralised technologies, and also for how it was created: by a team of self-organising civilians, completely independent of Government and industry, and financed by charitable donations.

Emmanuel College is pleased to invite you to a conversation between UWA founder Maksym Demydenko and Professor Alex Jeffrey, discussing the extraordinary story of how the archive was created. This talk is planned as the first in a short series, with future events to include film screenings and workshops exploring the implications of the issues raised for the wider Cambridge community. This talk is open to all and there is no need to register.