But Eliot Higgins, the British founder of online journalism site Bellingcat, saw clues waiting to be unlocked and analyzed. That Higgins wasn’t previously a journalist, doesn’t speak Arabic and has no special knowledge or formal experience with this technology proves the power of open source tools in a digital age. He makes use of open source, publicly accessible material, such as online photos, video, open source tools and social media updates to piece together information and verify details that news organizations might miss. "By and for investigative journalists," it will unite citizen investigative journalists to use open source information to report, plus offer tutorials on how best to do it. In August, Bellingcat surpassed a £47,000 (US$75,700) crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter, raising about US$82,000, which will cover basic costs.