Sam Gregory, and I am the Program Director at WITNESS. I’m pleased to be here today to share our experiences using video for change around human rights, empowering people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change And I’m going to talk about three things – how we got here…our experience of using video in advocacy in settings including court rooms, legislative chambers and community settings what we’re doing now… and particularly our Hub project for online video Throughout I’m going to emphasize the participatory possibilities of new innovations in video and where some opportunities lie ahead .
WITNESS: Using video to open eyes to human rights violations / Forum One Web Executive Seminar - Presentation Transcript
Using video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations
www.witness.org / http://hub.witness.org
Web Executive Seminars Online Video for Policy Impact October 29, 2008 National Press Club Washington, DC Learn more: www.forumone.com/video
WITNESS : VIDEO FOR CHANGE 16 years securing concrete changes in policy and practice related to human rights violations 70 countries 250 partner organizations 1000 ’ s of human rights defenders trained 3000 hours of archived human rights footage
WITNESS : Methodology Empowerment Focus on Audiences Solutions and a Space for Action Safety and Security
Location: California, USA
Human Rights Issue: Brutality, inefficacy and financial cost of youth detention
Impact: Five days after screening before State Legislature, sweeping legislative changes proposed.
Location: Burma
Human rights issue: 3000 villages forcibly emptied in eastern Burma
Impact: Pushed attacks on ethnic groups up the agenda; featured on YouTube with 600,000 + hits
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TRENDS affecting human rights advocacy using video Accessibility Participation Global Accountability/ Transitory Audiences Mobile Moving Image Media Literacy
STRATEGIES for using online video in human rights advocacy Online channels and platforms Video-blogging Participatory video creation, remixes and contests Viral videos Live-casting
ONLINE VIDEO FOR CHANGE International blogs + NGOs pressure Egypt Wael and other local bloggers and activists circulate and contextualise the videos Abbas uploads to YouTube Wael Abbas receives raw mobile phone videos
THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED
The Hub
hub.witness.org
Thank you…
… for watching.
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Sam Gregory, Program Director, The Hub, the "YouTub more
Sam Gregory, Program Director, The Hub, the "YouTube for human rights" and initiative of WITNESS presents the WITNESS Hub, a platform for human rights media. He spoke at Forum One's Web Executive Seminar, "Online Video for Policy Impact" on October 29, 2008. To learn more about this event, visit http://www.forumone.com/content/calendar/detail/2685 .
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