Seven webinars on Verification in the Age of Google Earth (July-November 2020) brought together a very wide variety of people interested in different kinds of open source verification, and started conversations on the synergies, possibilities and challenges which link different approaches. Many of the webinar panellists and other participants have wanted to find out more about each other and build better networks across the sector.

Our Virtual Cafés have been organised to facilitate this kind of opportunity. They enable people interested in open source verification to get to know each other through short informal conversations that are unmoderated and unrecorded. They are open to anyone interested in human security and open source verification, including open source verification practitioners, researchers, journalists, policy-makers, and students.

The organisers will provide some structure for the event, but its main purpose is to enable participants to make connections and community build, rather than to answer specific policy questions, or carry out pre-defined exercises.