Posted on January 10, 2008 by Sameer Padania
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 [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, Protest, Social Media, Sousveillance, The Hub, Video, internet | Tagged: africa, audio, citizen journalism, citizen media, democracy, elections, Human Rights, Journalism, kenya, kibera, maps, mashup, photojournalism, Video | 7 Comments »
Posted on November 22, 2007 by Sameer Padania
News just in from Hossam El-Hamalawy…:
I’ve just received the following message from blogger and friend Wael Abbas…
disaster: youtube disables my account claiming there were complaints about my police torture videos!!!
This is un-bloody-believable. YouTube has just disabled probably the most important channel for the Egyptian blogosphere. Wael’s videos have been central in the fight against [...]
Filed under: Freedom of speech, Human Rights, Journalism, Legal issues, The Hub, Video | Tagged: blogs, egypt, freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, icfj, Journalism, police, police brutality, torture, wael abbas, waelabbas, youtube | 3 Comments »
Posted on November 20, 2007 by Sameer Padania
[Slight changes below, after a second look at the project...]
For me, the 2002 series I Have A Right To… still represents a good benchmark for how the BBC’s World Service can knit together human rights resources of real and lasting value - and that others can use and build on.
Now, the World Service is celebrating [...]
Filed under: Freedom of speech, Human Rights, Journalism, Media | Tagged: bbc, broadcasting, derechos humanos, droits humains, freedom of expression, history, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, participation, world service | No Comments »
Posted on November 15, 2007 by Sameer Padania
Another nugget via Andy Carvin - I’d welcome comments on how this might look different when applied to the Hub:
Jay Rosen of NewAssignment.net is talking about some of the lessons learned from their first networked journalism experiment with Wired News, which focused on trends in crowdsourcing. He said there were six lessons, but he threw [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Journalism | Tagged: crowdsourcing, distributed effort, newassignment | No Comments »
