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  • Making Your Metadata Matter Metadata plays a crucial role in authenticating and verifying human rights footage for external audiences. When you are assessing which documentation app to use, it is important you fully understand the metadata collected by the app. This blog outlines the questions we recommend you ask. WITNESS March 31, 2020
  • Should I Use This Documentation App? This post is part of a series on Documenting During Internet Shutdowns. Look out for our comparison chart of various documentation apps, coming soon! Also available in Arabic and Spanish.  With contributions by Arul Prakkash Last reviewed: 31 January 2020 There are many apps that documenters can use to capture video, ranging from your phone’s […] Yvonne Ng February 3, 2020
  • Mobile Filming Tools Our recommended apps and equipment for filming video of human rights abuse. Dalila Mujagic August 11, 2017
  • ACLU App Encourages Citizen Witnesses to Document Police Encounters Morgan Hargrave reviews the ACLU's Mobile Justice, a new app that allows users to document interactions with police and upload video and reports to ACLU servers. Morgan Hargrave February 27, 2015
  • How Can Hyperlapse Videography Be Used for Human Rights? Hyperlapse is a videography approach that combines timelapse with motion, often with a first-person perspective. How could it be used for human rights? Sam Gregory February 3, 2015
  • Using Mobile Apps and Film to Prevent Gender-Based Violence Nancy Schwartzman talks to WITNESS about her film work and development of tech tools, including mobile apps, to end sexual violence. Matisse Bustos Hawkes November 4, 2014
  • 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. Sarah Stein Kerr April 15, 2014
  • WITNESS at SXSW 2014: Talking Media, Mobile, Technology and Human Rights Details for the two panels WITNESS is participating in and our suggestions a few more to check out at this year's conference. Sam Gregory March 7, 2014
  • Four Ways InformaCam Powers Mobile Media Verification Our partners at the Guardian Project posted today about how our joint project InformaCam provides mobile media (photos/video) verification. We share the overview here. Matisse Bustos Hawkes January 6, 2014
  • How Activists Can Use Vine To Reach a Global Audience in 6 Seconds Activists are using the mobile app Vine from Istanbul to Rio de Janeiro, but is their footage getting seen? We share 5 tips that can improve the reach and visibility of these short, dynamic videos. WITNESS June 21, 2013