At WeMedia: Nonprofits and media; activism online and off; telling our own stories

I’m in unnaturally chilly Miami (its projected to get down to the 40s tonight) at the WeMedia Conference and am currently sitting in an afternoon session about “advocacy groups who once relied on journalists are now making the news themselves”. The session is being moderated by John Bracken of the MacArthur Foundation and the discussion [...]

Kenya in crisis: a search for citizen cameras…

The crisis in Kenya may ultimately stem from a democratic failure, corruption and tribalism, or poverty and inequality, but either way, evidence of brutal violence continues to emerge, both in terms of killings and of violence against women and girls, and there’s news of an impending health crisis. For a quick tour d’horizon, including [...]

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 from [...]

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 Burma [...]

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 [...]