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Presentation delivered at New Technologies and Human Rights Monitoring workshop at Stanford University, 6-7 August 2012.

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Bearing witness through civic mediaSanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow alumnFounding Editor, www.groundviews.org

Mobile phone imagery http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps

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Social witnessing through photographyhttp://groundviews.org/2012/07/31/ganesan-nimalaruban-a-damning-murder-funeral-and-silence/

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War crimes? Digital image forensicshttp://groundviews.org/2011/07/02/photographic-evidence-of-war-crimes-in-sri-lanka-or-not/

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Social witnessing through videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix5xnEKxikI&feature=plcp

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Data visualisation for accountabilityhttp://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/

http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/

Data visualisation for accountabilityhttp://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/

http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/

Twitter for posterityhttp://groundviews.org/2011/07/04/resource-book-for-historians-researchers-and-media-a-year-of-tweeting-from-groundviews

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A different history: April to July 2012

380+ pages, 3195 tweets on issues incl. war crimes allegations, human rights abuses, racism, corruption, religious extremism

Presidential spokesman, politicians, local journalists, citizens, diaspora, US State Dept, foreign correspondents, UN system, HR orgs

Silence, engagement and corrections

Curation: Bundlrhttp://bundlr.com/b/questions-to-amb-robert-blake

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Curation: Bundlrhttp://groundviews.org/2012/04/18/the-questions-unanswered-by-amb-robert-blake-mapping-us-engagement-in-and-concerns-over-sri-lanka

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Timeline of post-war violencehttp://groundviews.org/2011/06/11/months-after-the-18th-amendment-is-the-executive-really-more-accountable-to-parliament

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Timeline on reconciliation’s failurehttp://groundviews.org/2012/08/03/sri-lankas-llrc-a-timeline-from-inception-to-implementation/

http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
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Facebook for bearing witnesshttps://www.facebook.com/groundviews

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Facebook for racismhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Buddhism-බු#-දහම-ආර)ෂාකරමු/318576704821497

http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/

Facebook for religious extremismhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Buddhism-බු#-දහම-ආර)ෂාකරමු/318576704821497

http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/

Facebook for dissent through memeshttps://www.facebook.com/slmemes

http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps/
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Today’s challenges from civic media

SearchingContextualisation, semantics and feature extractionData visualisationMany sourcing, verification and curation

Thank yousanjanah@gmail.com

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mailto:sanjanah@gmail.com

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