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Bearing witness through civic media Sanjana Hattotuwa TED Fellow alumn Founding Editor, www.groundviews.org

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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

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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

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Today’s challenges from civic media

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