- WITNESS Weekly Picks – August 8 Edition This week we feature articles on new innovations and practices in citizen journalism, data mapping and the protection of human rights.
- WITNESS Joins the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival to Recognize Young Filmmakers Calling all young filmmakers! WITNESS will present awards to two of our favorite entrees in this year’s PLURAL + Youth Video Festival.
- Building Bridges Between Activists and the Tech and Media Communities WITNESS Executive Director, Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm and Program Director, Sam Gregory speak on media, technology and social change at Internet Week New York 2014.
- WITNESS to Attend Media for Social Change UnConference WITNESS’ Raja Althaibani will take part in the Media for Social Change UnConference, an exciting event that will bring together activists, academics and citizen journalists to discuss media for social change in the Middle East and North Africa. WITNESS interviewed conference organizer, Dima Saber, to learn more about the themes and goals of the UnConference.
- Unlock Iran Invites You To Experience Life as an Iranian Political Prisoner Unlock Iran is a new innovative visual storytelling platform featuring the stories of Iranian “prisoners of rights,” or individuals who are detained for political, religious or other personal beliefs deemed a threat by the Iranian government.
- 3 More Days to Support These Knight News Challenge Applications The Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge is currently underway. We share a shortlist from among the 667 projects seeking to strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation.
- Citizen Video Captures Targeted Violence Against Mozabite Algerians A new playlist on the Human Rights Channel captures targeted violence against Mozabite Algerians, a Berber minority group living in central Algeria.
- Front Page News: Why We Can All Benefit from Tools to Verify Video What if our devices could capture and store more information in our media? What if we could help media makers make their material trustworthy? WITNESS is excited to announce that we are very close to launching a beta version of InformaCam for testing!
- Human Rights Tech and the 10-year Anniversary of Martus! Program Director Sam Gregory discusses human rights tech, InformaCam and the 10 year anniversary of human rights documentation tool, Martus.
- Drones for Good? The Basic Human Rights Considerations Ruminating upon what some purport as the inevitable; the widespread integration of aerial robots into other areas of society. We explore the initial concerns and possibilities surrounding the use of drones for human rights monitoring and activism.
- L6g49CARAAhP660rO9DCn4W3L: Email and Chat Encryption Basics for Activists Activists everywhere face the violations of their right to privacy especially in their online communications. We share basics of encryption that may help keep you, your networks and your communications safer.
- Street Art, Video and Social Change: Kenya Street Artist WiseTwo Visits WITNESS WiseTwo is a Kenyan street artist based in Nairobi. WiseTwo recently stopped by WITNESS with fellow street artist Joel Artista to discuss the intersection of social action, street art and video advocacy.
- Street Art, Video and Social Change: Joel Bergner Visits WITNESS Joel Bergner is a nomadic street artist, educator and advocate for social action. He recently stopped by WITNESS to discuss street art and video advocacy as tools for social change.
