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The Thomas Lubanga Trial at the ICC – Day 3 Bukeni Waruzi, our program coordinator for Africa and the Middle East is in The Hague this week attending the first week of the Lubanga Trial. This is his vlog from Day 3 of the trial and a special commentary from Bukeni on a surprising day when the prosecution's first witness - presented as a former child soldier - reversed his testimony in court. Priscila Néri January 28, 2009
Thomas Lubanga Trial at the ICC 2009 – Day 2 Bukeni Waruzi, program coordinator for Africa and the Middle East for WITNESS, reflects on Thomas Lubanga's defense team argument on Day 2 of the trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Bukeni also highlights that tomorrow is the first day when witnesses will participate in the trial. WITNESS January 27, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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