ICHR

The mission of The International Convention on Human Rights (ICHR) is to educate people about the evolution of international human rights documents and to facilitate dialogue about how these rights can be effectively enforced.

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Objective

Create an engaging community-based website that would allow students, drafters and members of the law school to contribute content in various forms (whitepapers, books, free writing, etc.) in support and defense of international human rights. Collectively, the site presented an issue with regard to content organization and presentation, since the ultimate goal was to leverage the content in order to draft a third and final human rights document.

Collaboration

ICHR partnered with OpenCircle to create a web platform that allowed for anytime contribution by the human rights community without sacrificing content quality for the sake of presentation. To meet this challenge, OpenCircle designed a flexible CMS that understood a broad spectrum of content formats, allowing professors, lawyers, activists and students an opportunity to contribute to the creation of a third a final human rights document.

Success

ICHR began as a humble start-up non-profit and ended as a well-funded research project within the Institute for Global Challenges at UC Berkeley’s School of Law. In between, OpenCircle worked with the organization’s founders to architect and implement a collaborative platform beta that got the attention of Berkeley’s technology department, opened up a professorship and effectively launched the company.