- How to Backup Mobile Videos On The Fly To A Wi-Fi Drive A quick overview of how to sync an Android's mobile videos folder to a local Wi-Fi drive as an alternative to cloud backup.
- 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.
- The Vine Mobile App: The Social Media Fanatic’s Favorite New Tool Vine is a new application for mobile devices with some powerful features for citizen journalists.
- Rethinking the Mobile Workflow for Human Rights Video By Nathan Freitas and Bryan Nunez Unfolding Approaches for Mobile Protest Coverage Activists all over the world have turned to mobile phones to organize, coordinate and document their struggle. Images and videos shot on mobile phones have been the standard for what revolution looks like in the public imagination. We have seen iconic moments, captured […]
- Livestreaming From Your Mobile Phone: An Interview with Bambuser As part of our focus on tools and tactics for #video4change activists, we're paying close attention to the emergence of livestreaming. One of the most popular tools to livestream from your mobile phone is Bambuser.
- #Video4change Weekly Digest: Sept. 9, 2011 It's been an exciting week here at WITNESS. We released our "Cameras Everywhere" report and many of us have been sharing it and we're looking forward to discussion to come. The report surveys the current landscape of human rights, video and technology and makes recommendations to a variety of players in that landscape from technology companies to policy makers and civil society organizations.
- The Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video Earlier this year we announced our “Cameras Everywhere” initiative which hopes to address some of the changes happening around human rights video online and on mobile phones. The tools for creating and distributing video are becoming more wide spread and more accessible.
- Hacking for Human Rights: Open Video Conference and Open Subtitles Design Summit About a week ago WITNESS participated in it's first "hack day " at the 2010 Open Video Conference here in New York. Several hours (and pizzas) later, we came up with this:
- What We’re Reading + Watching, July 19-23, 2010 This week we're sharing more 'tweeted' bits of news and resources including a guide to mobile phone video journalism, a discussion about the ethics of video in the "YouTube era," an award given to our partners at HOPS in Macedonia, a new audio archive of the world's language, and a new shareable video and education campaign about how cosmetics are made, packaged and sold:
- Live Streaming Resistance: A Replicable Video Advocacy Model During April in the United States, 92,432 homes were repossessed. Only one homeowner got a weeks' worth of news coverage. Read how he used video and why his model is worth replicating...
