WITNESS, Technology and #Video4Change at #SXSW

WITNESS is at #SXSWInteractive, one of the world’s largest conferences focused on interactive technologies and online innovation. We’re participating in three panels – calling attention to key #video4change issues as part of our Cameras Everywhere initiative- including the risks and opportunities for human rights activists using video and technology.

We hope you’ll follow us on Twitter at @witnesssxsw, @samgregory and @tech_wit for updates, and we’ve included panel hashtags below so you can follow from wherever you are.

Here’s where we’ll be:

SUNDAY (tomorrow) Mar. 11th: How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed: 12:30-1:30pm, AT&T Conference Hotel, Salon D, #sxsw #safesocial with Jillian York of EFF, Danny O’Brien of Committee to Protect Journalists, Ahmid Shibab-Eldin of Al-Jazeera’s The Stream, and me (for some background on our perspective on this, see the recommendations to tech companies in our “Cameras Everywhere” report)

MONDAY Mar. 12th : But Are You a Real Journalist? #Jan25 #Occupy, 9:30-10:30am, Hilton Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-3, #sxsw #citizensx

MONDAY Mar. 12th : Recognize This! Ethics of Mobile Face Tagging: 11am-12pm, Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon J with Bryan Nunez from WITNESS, and Harlo Thomas from the Guardian Project, #sxsw #mofacetag (for some great background on this check out Sameer Padania’s post on facial recognition on our blog)

We also wanted to give a shout-out to some other #video4change, visual storytelling and ‘technology for change’ panels here that piqued our interest. And we also recommend you check out Jillian York’s tips from EFF on a broad range of civil liberties and tech issues.

Today, Saturday Mar. 10th, 9:30am: Social Media In Colombia: An Agent For Change. #sxsw #Col

Saturday 9:30am: Can You Tweet That? Social Media and the Law #sxsw #smlaw

Saturday 11am: Hacking YouTube: Science and Secrets of Viral Videos #sxsw #ViralVid

Saturday 11am: Debate: Should Social Sites Allow Anonymous Users? #sxsw #anonymous

Saturday 12:30pm: Everything is a Remix? So Steal Like an Artist #sxsw #REMIX

Saturday 12:30pm : Is Social Media a Human Right? #sxsw #MediaRight

Saturday 1pm: A Creator’s Guide to Transmedia Storytelling #sxsw #acg2ts

Saturday 3:30: Tweeting Osama’s Death: From Citizen to Journalist #sxsw #OBLtweet

Saturday 5pm: Let’s Talk Video for Social Change #sxsw #VidChange

Saturday 5pm: Lights, Camera, Social Action! #sxsw #GetAction

Saturday 5pm: Games 4 Change: Great Power, Great Responsibility #sxsw #g4c

Sunday, Mar. 11th, 9:30: Storytelling Beyond Words #sxsw #stories