A little over a month back, we ran an interview with Eric Volz as a part of our coverage of the Berkeley Human Rights Center's conference, The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media. Volz was a panelist at the conference, where he discussed his experience as a political prisoner in Nicaragua, the online campaign which helped to keep his case alive, and the pros and cons of staging similar campaigns.

While working on a magazine in Nicaragua, Eric Volz was convicted in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in November of 2006. He spent a little over a year in jail there until the conviction was overturned by an appeals court in December of the following year.

There's ony one more day to vote for your favorite project proposals from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge!

Every single one of the projects has an element (or many elements, for that matter) of intrige, thoughtfulness, and/or just-plain-cool packed into them and half the fun of voting is simply getting a lay of the land of just what's going on in the world of mobile tech development for good. 

Last week, the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley announced the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy.  Submissions are already coming in and you can get involved!

Here are three ways to participate in the HRC Mobile Challenge: