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Thomas Lubanga Trial at the ICC 2009 – Day 1
The first trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) commenced on January 27, 2009 with the trial of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga - and video played a prominent role.
WITNESS
January 26, 2009
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How to Get Involved with the Thomas Lubanga Trial at the ICC
Here are some useful links to stay involved in the Lubanga Trial:
WITNESS
January 22, 2009
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DVB posts interview with Burma cyclone survivor
From DVB (via The Guardian, which has an interactive guide here, and is posting updates here) UPDATE: Burma pages from ReliefWeb, IRIN, Alertnet and Global Voices.
WITNESS
May 7, 2008
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Writers share videos from the Hub at PEN World Voices Festival
We’re very pleased to be a part of 3 events at this year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held annually in New York City. I’ll be moderating the first event on Apr 30 and is for high school students (details here) and includes authors Uzodinma Iweala, Amanda Michalopoulou, Patricia McCormick, Kashmira Sheth, and […]
WITNESS
April 29, 2008
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Calling All Bloggers: Keep Tibet in the Spotlight
Monks marching in the streets, students staging sit-in protests, midnight raids by the military, monasteries sealed off, towns and cities sealed off…this is Tibet. The most violent protests in nearly 20 years continue after last Monday’s pro-independence rallies commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet. The Chinese government reports 16 people […]
WITNESS
March 17, 2008
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We're in the Netxplorateur 100!
Congratulations to our friends at Psiphon, who have won the Grand Prize at the Forum Netxplorateur in Paris – deserved recognition for a very exciting tool… What we didn’t know until Psiphon told us is that the Hub was selected too as one of the Netxplorateur 100 – “100 Net trailblazers creating new digital practices […]
WITNESS
March 5, 2008
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Call for applications – GV's Rising Voices Grants
David Sasaki, Outreach Director at Global Voices Online, just emailed to alert us to the call for applications for their Rising Voices Grants, which aim to help local citizen media outreach projects around the world. I helped assess the last round of applications, which included some exceptional ideas, and from what I hear, the bar’s […]
WITNESS
November 6, 2007
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Another Good One from unmediated: Why Do Video Platforms Fail?
unmediated posted an article from dembot, which reads like a “where are they now?” VH1 special of online video… TOP TEN REASONS WHY VIDEO PLATFORMS FAIL: 1. Insubstantial library of content 2. Poor bit rates 3. Lack of innovation (clone platform) 4. No share in content ownership rights 5. No exclusivity of content distribution 6. […]
WITNESS
May 14, 2007
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Web 2.0 still in its infancy
David Pogue wrote a blog entry this week entitled Asking the Crowd to Spread the News in which he muses about all the useful and more pro-active things that Web 2.0 applications could be used for beyond just entertainment (YouTube) and buying ‘collectors items’ (eBay), etc. Its further endorsement that the time is now for […]
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
May 11, 2007
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Protests Move from Street to YouTube
Perhaps momentum is building for projects like the Hub. This article from The Age highlights how people in the Philippines are using YouTube to try and get attention about alleged government complicity with a rash of murders of political activists. From Slashdot: “One factor driving the move of political statements to YouTube, and away from […]
WITNESS
March 27, 2007
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Peter Talks About the WITNESS and the Hub at TED
This should have gone up a year ago, but I was tweaking our google adwords settings and stumbled across it. Anyway it’s a good nutshell explanation of WITNESS, and the early stage thinking behind the Hub.
WITNESS
March 22, 2007
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Guinea-Conakry: standing up to a power-hungry President [via GV/WITNESS]
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] The technological revolution that enables ordinary citizens to capture and upload video footage on the web has been slow to take root in West Africa. Up to now we haven’t featured any video content from […]
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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Herding the Mob
I ran across this story about “crowdhacking” – ways in which people try to game systems like eBay, Digg, and de.lico.us to promote stories, or gain higher feedback ratings. According to the article, these systems are all susceptible to manipulation, which has implications to the Hub once these tactics become more widespread. We should definitely […]
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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Implications of the online video explosion
From lostremote As more niche online video makes its way on the web, it will draw large Long Tail audiences who are excited to find video programming that fits their unique interests. Read the rest of the article here.
WITNESS
March 13, 2007
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We’re looking for a Hub coordinator to join our team
In case you don’t check the WITNESS job postings, we are looking for a Hub coordinator to join our small but growing team. (job is based in Brooklyn, NY) WITNESS is seeking a dynamic Hub Coordinator to assist the Hub Manager in overseeing all community and content-related activity within the Hub site, assisting with day-to-day […]
WITNESS
March 7, 2007