http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/ 2008-11-20T10:01:13Z http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/article/1666/a-youtube-for-human-rights.html The coverage of the recent and continued protests in Burma, shows just how powerful amateur footage can be. In a country closed to most journalists and censoring news, the amateur is often only way people in the outside world can see what's going on. <br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.witness.org/">Witness</a> is a human rights organization dedicated to helping people use technology to record and document human rights abuses. They do a ton of work making sure the equipment gets out to the people who need it and make sure the footage is seen. It therefore seems a logical next step that Witness would bring all this content together in one central location. To do this, Witness just launched <a target="_blank" href="http://hub.witness.org/">The Hub,</a> which is kind of a YouTube for human rights. <br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edcotton/2003042262/" title="The Hub from Witness by ed100, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2337/2003042262_3f5d3ee7ef.jpg" alt="The Hub from Witness" height="341" width="500"></a><br>The CGM conversation has mostly been about people doing things to benefit corporations or photography that big media has access to. <br><br>There's clearly another side to this where amateurs document situations of abuse that under normal conditions would never be captured. <br><br><br>Posted by Ed Cotton Influx Insights 2007-11-15T17:11:53Z 22.024545601240337 96.15234375