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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WITNESS Labs
As part of WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere Leadership Initiative, the WITNESS Labs project aims to create safer ways to communicate and share information by bridging barriers of geography, access, and personal danger. The primary audiences for the project are:
- 1) human rights defenders around the world, and
- 2) all potential citizen activist users in digital communities.
The SecureSmartCam App
Our first Labs project, the SecureSmartCam app (“SSC”), is a collaboration with The Guardian Project. SSC is an app that protects images, video, audio, data and identity of people creating and depicted in human rights video. Built on the Android platform using open-source technology, SSC will be a full-fledged video, image, and audio capture- and media-processing application.
It aims to protect the identity of those filming and those being filmed, protect relevant metadata, and integrate human rights standards of consent and intent into mobile video. Rather than rely on post-production editing, it will allow near real-time annotation of consent, and anonymization. It will integrate human rights considerations and practices into the work flow of filming with a mobile device.
A secondary focus of the project is on enhancing authenticity and efficacy of video for change, by embedding relevant metadata during filming or uploading to increase the evidentiary potential of the video or to highlight the creator’s intention for consideration when re-mixing or circulating the footage.
ObscuraCam/ InformaCam
The first version of this project is called ObscuraCam. And InformaCam is a plug-in for ObscuraCam, released in January 2012.
Download ObscuraCam here (available for Android OS only at this time.)
You can follow the latest coverage of our activity in the Press tab below. And join our ObscuraCam Facebook Page to stay up-to-date on latest releases of the app.
Are you a developer? For more information or to participate in WITNESS Labs, please contact our Technology Manager, Bryan Nuñez.
February 13, 2012 - By Bryan Nunez
Recently my colleague at The Guardian Project, Harlo Holmes wrote about the InformCam, the latest release from the joint collaboration between The Guardian Project and WITNESS, the SecureSmartCamera...
January 31, 2012 - By Guest Blogger
Amy Robbins is a member of the WITNESS Board of Directors and was the 2011 Focus for Change Benefit Dinner and Concert Co-Chair.
As WITNESS celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, I wanted to...
January 23, 2012 - By Yvette Alberdingk Thijm
Last month on Human Rights Day (December 10th) I wrote an opinion piece for the HuffingtonPost about the increasingly important role technology companies and platforms are playing in the human rights...
Sam Gregory Interviewed About ObscuraCam and WITNESS
Source: Creative Activism» | February 7, 2012
In this podcast interview Sam discusses WITNESS' mission of "enabling human rights advocacy through video."
More »Nathan Freitas, Collaborator on the SecureSmartCam Project Wins Pizzigati Prize
Source: The Tides Website | February 6, 2012
The Tides Foundation awards their 2012 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. Nathan leads the Guardian Project, a team of software developers focused on mobile security.
More »Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media Features ObscuraCam
Source: Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media » | February 1, 2012
The association of grantmakers committed to advancing the field of media and public interest public media funding features the progress we're making with ObscuraCam on their homepage.
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