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

Fri Sep 13 10:55:38 EDT 2013

Was a video of this talk ever posted?

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On 08/23/2013 12:10 PM, Sam Gregory wrote:
> 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
> *
> *
> *'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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