11 August | Uncategorized | jacobo | No comment
The WITNESS Media Lab is dedicated to unleashing the potential of eyewitness video as a powerful tool to report, monitor, and advocate for human rights.
We believe that the next stage of human rights documentation and advocacy will be powered by videos created and shared by eyewitnesses. Our work addresses the challenges of finding, verifying, and contextualizing those videos.
In collaboration with peers from the fields of advocacy, technology, and journalism, we develop solutions to ensure that footage taken by average citizens can serve as an effective tool for justice.
The WITNESS Media Lab is a project of WITNESS and the Google News Initiative.
RECENT PROJECTS
Eyes on Internet Shutdowns
A series of articles and resources highlighting community strategies for documenting human rights violations during internet shutdowns, and their role in achieving justice and accountability.
Legal Video Advocacy
To help reduce the massive U.S. prison population and to promote human dignity and growth over punishment and retribution, this project aims to support advocates, lawyers, and incarcerated individuals in using video to seek parole, clemency and sentencing mitigation.
Ticks Or It Didn’t Happen
WITNESS supports critical research into pros and cons of approaches to deepfakes and mis/disinformation mitigation that focus on tracking the authenticity and provenance of audiovisual media.
How do we work together to detect AI-manipulated media?
Synthesis Report: Expert meeting and knowledge exchange between i) leading researchers in media forensics and detection of deepfakes and other new forms of AI-based media manipulation and ii) leading experts in social newsgathering, UGC and OSINT verification and fact-checking.
Prepare, Don’t Panic: Synthetic Media and Deepfakes
This project focuses around the emerging and potential malicious uses of so-called “deepfakes” and other forms of AI-generated “synthetic media” and how we push back to defend evidence, the truth and freedom of expression.
Deepfakes: Prepare Now (Perspectives From Brazil)
Report and recommendations: WITNESS facilitates community-level discussion and national level convening to support inclusion of perspectives from Brazil in global discussion on deepfakes threats and solutions.
Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa
This project examines how human rights advocates and journalists can turn the proliferation of eyewitness and perpetrator video into more ethical and effective storytelling and documentation of human rights abuse in the MENA.
EYES ON ICE: Documenting Immigrant Abuses
This project examines the challenges and possibilities of using video to document encounters with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement(ICE) in the U.S for justice.
Caught on Camera: Police Violence in the U.S.
This project examines the impact of video in documenting police violence in the United States and its role in achieving justice and accountability. You’ll find articles, case studies and practical tips on documenting and sharing videos of police abuse
The People’s Database for Police Accountability
A set of tools and guidance from WITNESS and Berkeley Copwatch to support community-based police accountability groups in collecting, organizing, and storing documentation of police encounters. This allows for more effectively and quickly conducting investigations, coordinate justice campaigns, and challenge unjust laws, policies, and police practices.
IDEAS
04 February | ICE United States | palika | No commentWe Have Rights Animated Series
