"Nigeria: Amnesty International to Enlist Digital Volunteers to Track Oil Spills in Niger Delta", 4 July 2017

Amnesty, in a press release on Monday, called the project "Decode Oil Spill Project" which it described as a revolutionary crowd-sourcing platform to help the human rights group ensure justice for communities devastated by oil spills in the region. "The Decode Oil Spills project means anybody with a mobile phone or laptop can contribute to vital research into human rights abuses, and marks a new chapter in the way people can hold companies to account," said Milena Marin, Amnesty International's Senior Innovations Campaigner. "For far too long, wealthy oil companies have evaded justice for the utter devastation they have caused to the land and water of the Delta, and to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in the region...The group said, for instance, there had been more than 1,700 oil spills from Shell's operations in the region since 2007, while the Italian oil company ENI, though has smaller operations in the region than Shell, has reported even more spills - in excess of 3,000 since 2007...