[Ssc-dev] Reminder: 8/28: WITNESS and the Guardian Project: Human Rights Tech Talk at Google

[Sam Gregory]

HI everyone,

Just a reminder that if you have people you know in Google, we've got the
Tech Talk with the InformaCam and J3m focus coming up there on Wednesday
(and we'll touch on Obscura).

Word is that personal outreach works best to get people in the room - and
so please do reach out to people you know, and encourage them to invite
people they think might be intrigued or enlistable into our work. I've done
outreach to Google Ideas, .Org, YouTube, Earth, Google+, Glass and
Developer Relations particularly but if we know folks in the Android team
or other groups we think should be there then worth doing a reach out.

Description below:

MTV: WITNESS @ Google: 'Making the Most of Cameras Everywhere: New Citizen
Witnessing Tools for Human Rights' (VC Bridge 49178224)

*When: *Wed, Aug 28, 2013, 01:00pm (PDT)

*Location: *MTV-1900-1-Asilomar (135) VC

*Duration: *60 minutes

*Audience: *All Googlers

*Host: *Tory Voight
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*'Making the Most of Cameras Everywhere: New Citizen Witnessing Tools for
Human Rights'*

WITNESS <http://www.witness.org/> and The Guardian
Project<https://guardianproject.info/> are
pioneers in the field of technology for human rights. Combined we have
worked with activists on every continent except Antarctica, supporting the
use of video, secure communication, and encryption for human rights
defenders. In this Tech Talk we'll highlight key challenges and
opportunities for activists and ordinary citizens fighting for human
rights, drawing on experiences ranging from war crimes in Syria to rights
violations in Burma to current protest movements worldwide. We'll note
current projects for secure mobile communications on Android as well
as the Human
Rights Channel on YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/humanrights>, as well as
experiments in 'co-presence' tools for witnessing. And we'll particularly
focus on a new award-winning approach and tool
('InformaCam<http://blog.witness.org/2013/01/how-informacam-improves-verification-of-mobile-media-files/>')
to thinking about video capture, sharing, verification and visualization
based on rich evidentiary metadata captured using the J3M
<http://j3m.info/> (JSON
Evidentiary Mobile Media Metadata) standard.

*Speaker Info:*
Sam Gregory, Program Director/WITNESS, 'Future for Good' Fellow/Institute
for the Future.
Harlo Holmes, Research Fellow, Head of Metadata, The Guardian Project

*Sam Gregory * helps people use the power of the moving image and
participatory technologies to create human rights change. An award-winning
human rights advocate, video producer, trainer and technologist, he is
Program Director at WITNESS <http://www.witness.org/> (www.witness.org),
the leading organization supporting people to use video for human rights. His
recent work, including launching the Webby-nominated Human Rights
Channel<http://youtube.com/humanrights> on
YouTube, and the award-winning ObscuraCam and
InformaCam<http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20123674/> tools.
He teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School on human rights, media and
technology and trains human rights defenders worldwide.  A Rockefeller
Foundation Bellagio resident in 2010 on the future of video-based advocacy,
he was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2012, and
is currently a'Future for Good'
Fellow<http://www.iftf.org/what-we-do/who-we-are/fellows/sam-gregory/>
 with the Institute for the Future working on a project around 'co-presence
for good' and the possibilities of live and immersive witnessing for human
rights. Tweet him @samgregory.

*Harlo** Holme*s is a software developer and activist whose area of focus
is media steganography.  Harlo is a Research Fellow and Head of Metadata at
The Guardian Project (https://guardianproject.info), a mobile shop that
builds tools for the safe storage and transmission of media. The Guardian
Project is widely known for apps such as Gibberbot, an off-the-record chat
app; ObscuraCam, a camera app that allows users to blur, redact, or mask
people in digital photos, as well as wipe EXIF metadata; InformaCam, a
image and video verification service used by the International Bar
Association; PixelKnot, a fun image steganography app using the F5
algorithm; and Orbot, the Tor Project's official Android fork. She has an
academic background in Comparative Literature, Communication, and Media
Studies, but has spent her entire life hacking on computers and other
gadgets.  She now harnesses her multi-faceted background in service of
defending human rights workers, journalists, and other do-gooders with new
technologies. Please tweet @harlo.

*Reserved VC rooms:*

LAX-BIN1-3-Ruscha NYC-9th-10F-Van Cortlandt Park SFO-SPE-4-Excelsior
WAS-NEWY-2-The Situation Room SBO-901-1-Call of Duty (16) GVC
CHI-KIN-7-Metro Chicago (12) GVC LAX-BIN2-2-Beachcomber (12) GVC

If you'd like to VC into this talk and you don't see a site in your office,
please contact the host

*This talk will be recorded*
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-- 
Sam Gregory
Program Director
WITNESS

Woah... Our Human Rights Channel <http://www.youtube.com/humanrights> on
YouTube was nominated for a
Webby<http://pv.webbyawards.com/nominees/online-film-video/video-channels-and-networks/public-service-activism>.
We came in second in the People's Choice - thanks for all your votes!

80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, NY, 11217, USA
Tel: 718 783 2000, ext 309
Fax: 718 783 1593
Email: sam at witness.org
Follow me on Twitter: @samgregory, @witnessorg, #video4change
Blog: blog.witness.org/author/sam
www.witness.org

See It. Film It. Change It.

Learn how to manage, store, share and preserve your digital video with our
new Activists' Guide to Archiving Video http://archiveguide.witness.org.
Safeguard your video for the historical record and human rights change.

WITNESS and The Guardian Project have been named a Knight News Challenge
for Mobile winner for InformaCam
<http://blog.witness.org/2013/01/how-informacam-improves-verification-of-mobile-media-files/>-
a mobile app that improves verification of mobile video and photos.
*
*
Blog: Visual Anonymity and YouTube's New Blurring
Tool<http://blog.witness.org/2012/07/visual-anonymity-and-youtubes-new-blurring-tool/>

Read our report "Cameras
Everywher<http://www.witness.org/cameras-everywhere/report-2011>e"
for recommendations on what we can all be doing to make the use of video
for human rights safer and more effective
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