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New MobileActive Video on YouTube: Mobiles in Human Rights

March 31, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
hub, mobileactive07, video, witness, youtube

The newest addition to the MobileActive YouTube channel is a video interview with Tamaryn Nelson, the program coordinator for Latin America and the Carribean at WITNESS. In the interview, Tamaryn discusses the Hub, a website that she calls a "YouTube for human rights," which allows people to upload videos of human rights and create campaigns around them by adding context and joining discussion groups. The site has some videos taken on mobile phones and plans to add direct upload via mobile in the future.

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Using Mobile Phones to Advance Human Rights

December 10, 2007 | CorinneRamey
file under:
human rights, mobile monitoring, the hub, video, witness

A new website called the Hub, calling itself "the global platform for human rights media and action," has its official beta launch today in honor of International Human Rights Day. The Hub, a project of human rights advocacy group WITNESS, hopes to create a new space for human rights related video content, including footage shot on mobile phones.

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