What remains a good idea: Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka
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Presentation delivered to the Asia Foundation's LankaCorps Fellows on 4 September 2014 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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- 1. What remains a good idea: Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka Sanjana Hattotuwa Editor, Groundviews | TED Fellow Alumn
- 2. Post-war media “freedom” Especially for Tamil journalists
- 3. Focus on the State & sports Government led infrastructure development & cricket scores
- 4. Under-reported / Un-reported The human cost of development
- 5. Under-reported / UN-reported / Erased Inconvenient truths
- 6. IDPs of Seeniyamottai (September ’12), Rally against Weliveriya violence (August ’13), Aluthgama (June ’14)
- 7. Custodial murder Ganesan Nimalaruban’s mother
- 8. State complicity In religious extremism
- 9. Police shootings Covering up State brutality
- 10. A necessary bifurcation post-war Between patriots & traitors
- 11. Failure of MSM Supine, seeking favour, unprofessional, dependent on advertisements, under fire, risk averse
- 12. Pushback from State around New Media National Security Threats, Dogs, Terrorists, Murderers
- 13. How can technology help? Bearing witness within cycles of violence
- 14. 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
- 15. A safe space Civility, agree to disagree
- 16. Curation • ~7.3 million words over 50,000 comments • ~5.8 million words over 2,900 articles • no break in eight years
- 17. Twitter From peripheral to primary channel of news
- 18. Recording human rights #unlk at 22nd HRC sessions
- 19. Facebook Reaching over 26,000 and beyond
- 20. The end of war Zero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
- 21. Mass graves From 2009 to end of 2011
- 22. Bearing witness Impeachment of Chief Justice
- 23. Moving Images Photography to capture change | www.movingimages.asia
- 24. Mediated Using art to shape perceptions | saskiafernandogallery.com/ exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.
- 25. 30 Years Ago New media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia
- 26. Short & Sweet Using fiction to interrogate a violent past
- 27. Citizen archivist Archiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
- 28. • Army (1) • Berghof Foundation (2) • CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1) • Citizens Commission (1) • Citizens.lk (1) • COI (1) • Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1) • Colomboscope (1) • Cost of War (1) • CPA (1) • Dept. of Census and Statistics (1) • Development (1) • Eastern Revival (1) • FMM (1) • Groundviews (1) • IIGEP (2) • InfoShare (1) • Jayantha Dhanapala (1) • JVP (1) • LLRC Action Plan (1) • LLRC NAP (1) • LTTE Dept. of IR (1) • LTTE Peace Secretariat (2) • MCNS (1) • Media at risk (1) • Milinda Moragoda (1) • National Freedom Front (1) • National Housing Policy (1) • NESOHR (1) • Official Languages Commission (1) • PACT (1) • Political parties (2) • Regaining Sri Lanka (1) • SCOPP (3) • SLPI & SLCJ (1) • Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF) (1) • Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1) • Tamil National Alliance (1) • Tsunami (1) • UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1) • Vikalpa (1) • Blogs of Army commanders during 2009
- 29. Their stories matter Tech secondary
- 30. Thank you All photos via Vikalpa Flickr, www.flickr.com/vikalpasl