Sam Gregory, Program Director, The Hub, the "YouTube for human rights" and initiative of WITNESS presents the WITNESS Hub, a platform for human rights media. He spoke at Forum One's Web Executive Seminar, "Online Video for Policy Impact" on October 29, 2008. To learn more about this event, visit http://www.forumone.com/content/calendar/detail/2685 .
Contact: Andrew Cohen acohen@ForumOne.com / http://www.ForumOne.com .
WITNESS: Using video to open eyes to human rights violations / Forum One Web Executive Seminar
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2. Web Executive Seminars Online Video for Policy Impact October 29, 2008 National Press Club Washington, DC Learn more: www.forumone.com/video
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4. WITNESS : VIDEO FOR CHANGE 16 years securing concrete changes in policy and practice related to human rights violations 70 countries 250 partner organizations 1000 ’ s of human rights defenders trained 3000 hours of archived human rights footage
5. WITNESS : Methodology Empowerment Focus on Audiences Solutions and a Space for Action Safety and Security
10. TRENDS affecting human rights advocacy using video Accessibility Participation Global Accountability/ Transitory Audiences Mobile Moving Image Media Literacy
11. STRATEGIES for using online video in human rights advocacy Online channels and platforms Video-blogging Participatory video creation, remixes and contests Viral videos Live-casting
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13. ONLINE VIDEO FOR CHANGE International blogs + NGOs pressure Egypt Wael and other local bloggers and activists circulate and contextualise the videos Abbas uploads to YouTube Wael Abbas receives raw mobile phone videos
Sam Gregory, and I am the Program Director at WITNESS. I’m pleased to be here today to share our experiences using video for change around human rights, empowering people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change And I’m going to talk about three things – how we got here…our experience of using video in advocacy in settings including court rooms, legislative chambers and community settings what we’re doing now… and particularly our Hub project for online video Throughout I’m going to emphasize the participatory possibilities of new innovations in video and where some opportunities lie ahead .