Cameras Everywhere Report 2011
WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere aims to ensure that the thousands of people using video for human rights can do so as effectively, safely and ethically as possible.
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Cameras Everywhere Press
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Meet the Mobile Media Projects That Just Won $2.4 Million
Source: All Things Digital | January 17, 2013This sibling publication of the Wall Street Journal profiles the winners of the Knight News Challenge, and explains how mobile technology was the theme uniting them.
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InformaCam Splashes in the Photography World
Source: World Photography Organization | January 17, 2013Though WITNESS focuses on video, the World Photography Origanization recently discussed the InformaCam project, noting it as a collaboration between "mobile security specialists at The Guardian Project and human rights advocates at WITNESS." They also note the recent surge in citizen journalism, and point out the veracity problems that InformaCam will address.
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MediaShift Notes InformaCam as Part of a Rethinking of Mobile News
Source: Media Shift | January 17, 2013InformaCam was noted to be part of a trend of re-thinking how mobile news works, among other winners of the prestigious Knight News Challenge. Media Shift noted that the "way in which people consume news is undoubtedly shifting, as more people flock to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. That, too, has transformed how media organizations need to think about mobile content."
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Human Rights Channel Helps Expand YouTube's News Coverage
Source: Mashable | December 19, 2012More viewers turned to YouTube for news in 2012, as illustrated in this infographic, and they tuned in to everything from the WITNESS Human Rights Channel to the Felix Baumgartner space jump.
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ObscuraCam Reviewed
Source: Are You an Android? | November 20, 2012Our privacy app for Andriod platform developed with the Guardian Project is reviewed.
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Disruption At The Intersection of Technology and Human Rights
Source: Forbes | November 12, 2012Randy Newcomb, CEO of Humanity United, discusses organizations including WITNESS, and a "trajectory of innovation [that] is overhauling the human rights field."
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Human Rights Activists Taught Online Tactics
Source: BBC Business | November 5, 2012The BBC interviews our Video Advocacy Training Manager Chris Michael on the possibilities and pitfalls for human rights activists using online tools.
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The Video Revolution
Source: Center for International Media Assistance | August 29, 2012The latest report from CIMA focuses on the impact of social media and citizen journalism on news media in recent years and features points made in our "Cameras Everywhere" report.
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Global Voices Advocacy Features our Tips for Activists Using YouTube's New Face Blur Tool
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Seeing is believing: Human Rghts Content in the Age of Social Media
Source: Storyful Blog | August 12, 2012Della Kilroy, a team member at our partners Storyful, talks about her work helping to curate videos for our Human Rights Channel.
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August 7, 2012 - By Bryan Nunez
Recently, YouTube launched a feature that allows blurring on videos uploaded to their site. It’s a step we’ve pushed for from the commercial video-sharing platforms and social networks...
July 18, 2012 - By Sam Gregory
Today YouTube announced a new tool within their upload editor that enables people to blur the faces within the video, and then publish a version with blurred faces. WITNESS has advocated for YouTube...
May 31, 2012 - By Guest Blogger
By Teresa Eggers
A near 6-month battle between British news broadcasters and the police has recently concluded: last December’s court decision that ordered television companies including BBC, ITN,...
The App that Authenticates SmartPhone Photos (FR)
Source: Radio France Interationale | February 11, 2013
Radio France Internationale reported on InformaCam in their radio broadcast, as well as their print website.
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Source: WAMU Kojo Nnamdi Show | February 5, 2013
Sam Gregory was a featured panelist on the radio show, discussing "the different ways innovators use crowdsourcing today while asking what obstacles still could be limiting its potential."
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Source: The Daily Dot | February 1, 2013
"But now one group is trying to bring a little more transparency to the process with a new app and metadata standard that promises auto-verification of a photo's legitimacy." This article about InformaCam interview Bryan Nunez about WITNESS's innovative app.
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