New iPad App for Human-Rights Group

Human Rights Watch developed an iPad app to publish reports and create interest in its cause. Human Rights Watch developed an iPad app to publish reports and create interest in its cause.

March 6, 2011 | Read Time: 1 minute

Human Rights Watch has created an iPad application that features the charity’s reports, videos, and photographs along with news updates about human-rights issues around the globe.

The application was created with the organization’s long reports in mind. Readers can take notes on the reports, bookmark pages, and share passages on Facebook, all within the same application.

“It’s more of a dynamic reading experience,” says Grace Choi, the group’s publications director.

Since Human Rights Watch released the application on January 20, it has been downloaded more than 2,000 times.

To download the application: Go to http://itunes.apple.com and search for “human rights.”

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.