New York City October 10-16, 2011 www.mobilityshifts.

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Bring Your Smartphone!

Witnessing Literacies, Witnessing Tools
Saturday, October 15, 2:30 p.m. Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
This panel discussion will be literacies and tools-focused, looking at the key ethical groundings, as well as the practical dilemmas, concepts and practices surrounding the rise of ubiquitous mobile video and image capture, specifically as it applies to human rights. It looks at how learning takes place among a new generation of activists utilizing mobile technologies, and will take as a practical focal point the work that WITNESS and the Guardian Project have done on the Secure Smart Camera, a camera phone application for human rights defenders that attempts to address the issues of anonymity, consent, authenticity, managing multiple sources, secure distribution and preservation of ephemeral media. These issues have been given new resonance by the events earlier this year in the Middle East and North Africa. A large part of the impetus for developing the Secure Smart Cam is to increase the digital/media literacy of human rights defenders as well as the general public. Nathan Freitas (Guardian Project) Sam Gregory (WITNESS) Bryan Nunez (WITNESS)

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