Learn through discussion and video clips, how Indigenous communities are defending territorial sovereignty, promoting language, culture and their rights through a groundbreaking network of video collectives, locally owned, driven and managed.
Among these are the Maasai of Loliondo (Tanzania), North East Network, based in Nagaland (N.E India) and La Marabunta Filmadora, representing 7 Indigenous groups across northern Mexico.
Discover how the Participatory Video (PV) approach:
-acts as a catalyst to radically increase the agency, capacity, confidence and motivation of communities to take control of the factors influencing their lives;
-provides a platform for inter-generational and gender-balanced discussions, consensus building, and actions outside of constraints of the existing institutions of power, supporting decision making that better reflects community priorities.
Through valuing local knowledge, increasing self-esteem, and promoting communication that bonds disparate groups into a coherent and proactive force, PV enables people to document and communicate their vision of a future based on togetherness and belonging.
In this ten-minute session, we'll introduce the re-launch of Threatened Voices, Global Voices' a data-driven advocacy project that documents the experiences of individuals who are targeted for engaging in online expression with a civic, non-violent intent. We're excited to unveil a new, improved methdology, database and web platform for the project.
Working with eyewitnesses, media activist curators and NGOs to create, make sense of and use first-hand accounts of human rights violations
WITNESS works to enable anyone, anywhere to use video and technology to defend their rights. Around the world eyewitnesses to human rights violations from police violence to forced evictions to hate crimes document what they see and share it via social media and messaging apps. How can this increasing volume of videos be used for justice and accountability? How do we help people be safer? How do we ensure these videos can be trusted in a climate of 'fake news'? How do we use for good videos shot for the worst of reasons?
This workshop will focus on:
i) Key guidance that community activists and leaders can share directly with community members who document and bear witness to violations to help them do it safely, ethically and effectively (for e.g. this guidance on 'Filming Hate')
ii) Ethical approaches to curating and making use of footage shot by witnesses as well as perpetrators. We'll draw on experiences from WITNESS' work globally and our work in the WITNESS Media Lab on ethical, effective curation such as our Ethical Guidelines and our Capturing Hate project.
Following delivery of the first draft Internet Universality indicators based on phase 1 consultation during March-October 2017, UNESCO takes a further step to advance the project by kicking off the phase 2 consultation and engaging with Asia Pacific stakeholders and experts to review the draft indicators at the occasion of the 2017 Global Voices Summit in Colombo (Sri Lanka).
UNESCO will present the first draft of Internet Universality indicators which include five categories concerned with Internet Universality ROAM principes:
Rights (R)
Openness (O)
Accessibility (A)
Multistakeholder Participation (M) and
Cross-Cutting Issues (X)
The first hour session will be focused on the discussion on Rights (R), Multistakeholder Participation (M) and Cross-Cutting Issues (X)
Following delivery of the first draft Internet Universality indicators based on phase 1 consultation during March-October 2017, UNESCO takes a further step to advance the project by kicking off the phase 2 consultation and engaging with Asia Pacific stakeholders and experts to review the draft indicators at the occasion of the 2017 Global Voices Summit in Colombo (Sri Lanka).
UNESCO will present the first draft of Internet Universality indicators which include five categories concerned with Internet Universality ROAM principes:
Rights (R)
Openness (O)
Accessibility (A)
Multistakeholder Participation (M) and
Cross-Cutting Issues (X)
The second hour session (Day 2 - 11:00 - 12:15) will be on Openness (O), Accessibility (A), and Cross-Cutting Issues (X)