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Bearing witness to yahapalanaya
Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, Groundviews | TED Fellow Alumn
Presidential ElectionYahapalanaya begins
100 day programmeEarly indications of problems
UNFGG wins the General ElectionA bizarre coalition of expedient politics?
Under-reported / Un-reportedThe human cost of development
Under-reported / ErasedInconvenient truths
Promise & realityPolice brutality
“The balance of political power could shift and quickly, not because the previous dispensation and its torch bearers in active politics are looking good and providing an attractive alternative, but because the government is too soon appearing to be wanting on principle and performance.”
How can technology help?Bearing witness within cycles of violence
Recording for posterity
Wordpress, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Google
+, YouTube, Vimeo, Bundlr, Storify, Vimeo,
SoundCloud, Flickr, Infogr.am, Typeform, Google Maps, Google
Earth, Timeline.js, Tiki Toki, Ushahidi CrowdMap,
OpenStreetMap, SMS, Mobile Apps, HTML5
A safe spaceCivility, agree to disagree
Curation
• ~7.5 million words in 50,260 comments
• ~8.4 million words over 3,375 articles • no break in eight years
TwitterFrom peripheral to primary channel of news
Recording human rights#unlk at 22nd HRC sessions
Recording tweets for posterity1 million+ on Sri Lanka
FacebookReaching over 27,000 and beyond
The end of warZero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
Mass gravesFrom 2009 to end of 2011
MediatedUsing art to shape perceptions |
saskiafernandogallery.com/exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.
30 Years AgoNew media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia
Short & SweetUsing fiction to interrogate a violent past
Technology & theatreUsing theatre to interrogate texts
Watch This SpaceArt, Transitional Justice and Accountability
Corridors of PowerMerging architecture and constitutional theory
Citizen archivistArchiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
1.Army (4) 2.Berghof Foundation (2) 3.CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1) 4.Citizens Commission (1) 5.Citizens.lk (1) 6.COI (1) 7.Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1) 8.Colomboscope (1) 9.Cost of War (1) 10.CPA (1) 11.Dept. of Census and Statistics (1) 12.Desmond de Silva (1) 13.Development (1) 14.Eastern Revival (1) 15.FMM (1) 16.Groundviews (1) 17.IIGEP (2) 18.InfoShare (1) 19.Jayantha Dhanapala (1)
20.JVP (1) 21.LLRC Action Plan (2) 22.LLRC NAP (2) 23.LTTE Dept. of IR (1) 24.LTTE Peace Secretariat (2) 25.Mahinda Rajapaksa (2) 26.Maithripala Sirisena (2) 27.MCNS (1) 28.Media at risk (1) 29.Milinda Moragoda (1) 30.Ministry of Defence (1) 31.Momentum (1) 32.Namal Rajapaksa (1) 33.National Freedom Front (1) 34.National Housing Policy (1) 35.National Movement for Social Justice
(1) 36.NESOHR (1) 37.Official Languages Commission (1)
38.PACT (1) 39.Political parties (5) 40.Presidential Commission To
Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (1)
41.Prime Minister's Website (1) 42.Regaining Sri Lanka (1) 43.SCOPP (3) 44.SLPI & SLCJ (1) 45.Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF)
(1) 46.Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1) 47.Tamil National Alliance (1) 48.Tharunyata Hetak (1) 49.Tsunami (1) 50.UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1) 51.Vikalpa (1)
Their stories matterTech secondary
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