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New Video for Change Best Practices Series
Since the start of the Arab Spring, we’ve witnessed a dramatic shift in how activists are using video to impact change in their communities.
Raja Althaibani
April 3, 2012
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أفضل ممارسات الفيديو من أجل التغيير
.هذه هي التدوينة الأولى من سلسلة تدويناتنا التي تعرض أفضل ممارسات الفيديو من أجل التغيير
Raja Althaibani
April 3, 2012
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Archiving Human Rights on the Web
The web has given human rights organizations unprecedented access to global audiences. However a website will last only as long as funds are available for maintenance and hosting.
WITNESS
January 27, 2012
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Inside the Media Archive: our Cataloging Manual now available online
Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources the WITNESS Media Archive has developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
WITNESS
September 26, 2011
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Execution Footage Found in Libya Offers Glimpse of Gaddafi’s Abuses; Could Be Used for Justice
Children cheering from the sidelines, thousands pour into the sports stadium as excitement fills the air. A student sits at the center of the court as throngs of people and chants shake the arena. This is not you’re average sports event, the crowd not your average sports fans and the man sitting in the center is not their most valuable player; instead this is one of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s infamous public executions.
Raja Althaibani
August 31, 2011
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#Video4Change Weekly Digest: August 26, 2011
The weekly digest has been on an unintentional hiatus... I have been helping out on some exciting projects here including our forthcoming Video Advocacy Online Toolkit and planning some outreach for our soon-to-be published report on current challenges and opportunities for human rights video.
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
August 26, 2011
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Weekly Video-For-Change Digest: July 22, 2011
We're launching a couple of new series this week on the blog. (If you missed the first in our Video Advocacy Example series, you can read it here.)
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
July 22, 2011
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Saving Human Rights Video from an Online “Deadpool”
Perhaps serving as a reminder to video creators that video sharing platforms are not archival repositories for their media (nor do they claim to be), Google Video will be finally shutting down entirely next month. Starting April 29, videos hosted on Google Video will no longer be available for playback; after May 13, the videos will be removed. Google is encouraging content owners to download or migrate their videos to YouTube before the deadline.
Yvonne Ng
April 25, 2011
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Sharing Truth
Two weeks ago I participated in a remarkable event, called Sharing Truth, an international forum convened in Vancouver under the auspices of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada.
WITNESS
March 16, 2011
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Inside the Media Archive: Archiving Digital Video
Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources the WITNESS Media Archive has developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
Yvonne Ng
January 12, 2011
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Inside the Media Archive: Indexing Human Rights
Inside the Media Archive is an ongoing, occasional behind-the-scenes look at the practices, methodologies, tools, and resources we have developed and implemented to manage our collection of human rights video documentation.
Yvonne Ng
December 13, 2010
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Reimagining the Archive: Rethinking Archival Practice and Theory
The tone was set on Friday evening with Rick Prelinger’s animated keynote presentation, in which he spoke about the dynamic nature of moving image archives as sites of creation, participation, artistic practice, and activism rather than as places where content goes to die.
WITNESS
November 19, 2010
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The Documentation Affinity Group: Embedding Archive in Activism
The Documentation Affinity Group (DAG) is a small international peer-to-peer network of local action groups originally established by six NGOs in 2005 to consider the role of documentation in protecting and promoting human rights worldwide.
WITNESS
November 3, 2010
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Kate Doyle: “Archivists Can Be At the Heart of Accountability and Justice”
On October 27, the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, I spoke with Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive (NSA), about the Guatemala Project, the notion of the activist archivist and how archives can advocate for open societies.
WITNESS
October 29, 2010
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Nelson Mandela, Archivist Activist
You may have seen a recent 60 Minutes segment on the newest published memoir of Nelson Mandela, perhaps “the most admired man alive” in the words of correspondent Bob Simon. And if you are an archivist, chances are you are familiar with Verne Harris, of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, renowned in his own right, activist archivist sine qua non.
WITNESS
October 27, 2010
