- Update on The Hub and WITNESS’ New Online Strategy For those of you who participated in WITNESS' Hub project (thank you!) and for all of you in the "Video for Change" community interested in online human rights video, I am writing this post to explain what's happening with the Hub and WITNESS' new online strategy.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60: what image opened your eyes to human rights? On December 10th, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In commemoration WITNESS offers this short video featuring footage from the Media Archive. What image opened your eyes to human rights? Join the conversation by commenting or posting your own video response.
- World Day For Audiovisual Heritage: Human Rights Archives Today, October 27, is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, established by UNESCO in 2007 to highlight the importance of film, video, television, radio and all other forms of audiovisual media to global culture, history, and communication; and to call attention to the vulnerability of this media, due to neglect, deterioration, a lack of human or […]
- October is American Archives Month… 10 things to read/do/think about: 1. Read Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective by Verne Harris. 2. Check out this upcoming NY Archivists Roundtable workshop: Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories: Case Studies Addressing the Development and Implementation of Systems. November 10, 2008. One of the presenters is David Rice, Channel 13’s Digital Archivist. […]
- On the Seesmic rooftop with Loic Le Meur… A brief dispatch from San Francisco, where yesterday I spent some quality time with Loic Le Meur, Cathy Brookes and VinVin at Seesmic. As well as a quickfire exchange with users on Seesmic – some of whom are already on the Hub – Loic and I had a quick chat on Seesmic’s rooftop: More soon […]
- A brief chat with The Elders for International Human Rights Day… If you haven’t come across The Elders already, you will soon – not least because we are partnering with them on their Every Human Has Rights campaign. On Sunday morning I sat in on a conference call with three of The Elders – Graça Machel, Mary Robinson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu – and 5 bloggers […]
- What really happened in the Burma internet “shut off”? [via John Palfrey] Next Monday, December 10, is International Human Rights Day, and it seems a good moment do our bit to make sure we don’t forget Burma. COHRE (the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions) has posted two reports – one on Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Displacement and Land Rights in Burma (pdf) and the other naming […]
- Egypt videos back up at the Hub As I mentioned in my last post, a number of the Egypt police brutality videos at the Hub had been embedded from Wael Abbas’ YouTube account. When his account was suspended, these videos on the Hub (and everywhere else they were embedded) stopped playing. We’ve now managed to restore some of the key videos, and […]
- WITNESS launches the HUB WITNESS has launched the HUB. This is the first participatory site devoted to human rights media.
- Take 60 seconds to watch this – and then pass it on See video on the Hub here.
- Social Network Fatigue There are so many social networks out there already, are people beginning to tire of them? Will this have an affect on participation on the Hub? How many LinkedIn requests have you gotten this week? This article from unmediated goes into further detail.
- WITNESS named as one of 59 Smartest Nonprofits Online for Hub Pilot This award is a joint effort established by Squidoo.com, NetSquared, and GetActive, designed to recognize nonprofits who are setting new standards in savvy Internet marketing. We were nominated for the Hub Pilot and web 2.0 smarts.
- Join the WITNESS Hub Team 2007 promises to be a big year for the Hub! We are already looking to grow the Hub staff and are currently seeking a Hub Manager to oversee all aspects of the Hub during development and roll out, scheduled to take place Summer 2007. For more information and how to apply please see the job […]
- Human Rights Video Hub Pilot Launched Last Thursday, our Human Rights Video Hub pilot project with Global Voices Online launched. Sameer Padania, our Video Hub Editor has kicked it off with a post detailing how video cell phones and distributed networks are helping put an end to police and prison brutality in Malaysia. We will be keeping a close eye on […]
- Propaganda and User Generated Content JD Lasica from OurMedia had an interesting post about a “spoof” of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. Turns out that Republican PR firms are “users” too. Is this something we should expect on the Video Hub as well?
