Who uses Martus?
The Martus user community is made up of three distinct audiences: information producers, trusted intermediaries and information consumers. • Information producers – grassroots organizations, larger NGOs and other reporting bodies – use Martus software tools to create and file bulletins concerning human rights abuses. AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) estimates that there are about 10,000 human rights groups throughout the world that are actively collecting information in the field. • Trusted intermediaries are leading institutions in the field that operate Martus servers, providing secure and confidential backup services to the information producers. • Information consumers – academics, the media and larger human rights organizations – will use Martus to research, study and report on human rights abuses.
