Presentation made to Lanka Fellows programme at The Asia Foundation in Colombo on 10th November 2015.

1. Bearing witness to yahapalanaya
Sanjana Hattotuwa
Editor, Groundviews | TED Fellow Alumn

2. Presidential Election
Yahapalanaya begins

3. 100 day programme
Early indications of problems

4. UNFGG wins the General Election
A bizarre coalition of expedient politics?

5. Under-reported / Un-reported
The human cost of development

6. Under-reported / Erased
Inconvenient truths

7. Promise & reality
Police brutality

8. “The balance of political power could shift and quickly, not
because the previous dispensation and its torch bearers in
active politics are looking good and providing an attractive
alternative, but because the government is too soon appearing
to be wanting on principle and performance.”

9. How can technology help?
Bearing witness within cycles of violence

10. Recording for posterity
Wordpress, Blogger,
Facebook, Twitter, Google
+, YouTube, Vimeo,
Bundlr, Storify, Vimeo,
SoundCloud, Flickr,
Infogr.am, Typeform,
Google Maps, Google
Earth, Timeline.js, Tiki
Toki, Ushahidi CrowdMap,
OpenStreetMap, SMS,
Mobile Apps, HTML5

11. A safe space
Civility, agree to disagree

12. Curation
• ~7.5 million words in 50,260
comments
• ~8.4 million words over 3,375 articles
• no break in eight years

13. Twitter
From peripheral to primary channel of news

14. Recording human rights
#unlk at 22nd HRC sessions

15. Recording tweets for posterity
1 million+ on Sri Lanka

16. Facebook
Reaching over 27,000 and beyond

17. The end of war
Zero civilian casualties vs. ground realities

18. Mass graves
From 2009 to end of 2011

19. Moving Images
Photography to capture change | www.movingimages.asia

20. Mediated
Using art to shape perceptions |
saskiafernandogallery.com/
exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.

21. 30 Years Ago
New media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia

22. Short & Sweet
Using fiction to interrogate a violent past

23. Technology & theatre
Using theatre to interrogate texts

24. Watch This Space
Art, Transitional Justice and Accountability

25. Corridors of Power
Merging architecture and constitutional theory

26. Citizen archivist
Archiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com

27. 1.Army (4)
2.Berghof Foundation (2)
3.CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1)
4.Citizens Commission (1)
5.Citizens.lk (1)
6.COI (1)
7.Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1)
8.Colomboscope (1)
9.Cost of War (1)
10.CPA (1)
11.Dept. of Census and Statistics (1)
12.Desmond de Silva (1)
13.Development (1)
14.Eastern Revival (1)
15.FMM (1)
16.Groundviews (1)
17.IIGEP (2)
18.InfoShare (1)
19.Jayantha Dhanapala (1)
20.JVP (1)
21.LLRC Action Plan (2)
22.LLRC NAP (2)
23.LTTE Dept. of IR (1)
24.LTTE Peace Secretariat (2)
25.Mahinda Rajapaksa (2)
26.Maithripala Sirisena (2)
27.MCNS (1)
28.Media at risk (1)
29.Milinda Moragoda (1)
30.Ministry of Defence (1)
31.Momentum (1)
32.Namal Rajapaksa (1)
33.National Freedom Front (1)
34.National Housing Policy (1)
35.National Movement for Social Justice
(1)
36.NESOHR (1)
37.Official Languages Commission (1)
38.PACT (1)
39.Political parties (5)
40.Presidential Commission To
Investigate into Complaints Regarding
Missing Persons (1)
41.Prime Minister's Website (1)
42.Regaining Sri Lanka (1)
43.SCOPP (3)
44.SLPI & SLCJ (1)
45.Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF)
(1)
46.Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1)
47.Tamil National Alliance (1)
48.Tharunyata Hetak (1)
49.Tsunami (1)
50.UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1)
51.Vikalpa (1)

28. Their stories matter
Tech secondary

29. Thank you
All photos via Vikalpa Flickr, www.flickr.com/vikalpasl