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Bearing witness through civic media Sanjana Hattotuwa TED Fellow alumn Founding Editor, www.groundviews.org

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Bearing witness through civic mediaSanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow alumnFounding Editor, www.groundviews.org

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Mobile phone imagery http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps

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Social witnessing through photographyhttp://groundviews.org/2012/07/31/ganesan-nimalaruban-a-damning-murder-funeral-and-silence/

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War crimes? Digital image forensicshttp://groundviews.org/2011/07/02/photographic-evidence-of-war-crimes-in-sri-lanka-or-not/

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Social witnessing through videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix5xnEKxikI&feature=plcp

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Data visualisation for accountabilityhttp://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/

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Data visualisation for accountabilityhttp://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/

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Twitter for posterityhttp://groundviews.org/2011/07/04/resource-book-for-historians-researchers-and-media-a-year-of-tweeting-from-groundviews

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A different history: April to July 2012

380+ pages, 3195 tweets on issues incl. war crimes allegations, human rights abuses, racism, corruption, religious extremism

Presidential spokesman, politicians, local journalists, citizens, diaspora, US State Dept, foreign correspondents, UN system, HR orgs

Silence, engagement and corrections

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Curation: Bundlrhttp://bundlr.com/b/questions-to-amb-robert-blake

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Curation: Bundlrhttp://groundviews.org/2012/04/18/the-questions-unanswered-by-amb-robert-blake-mapping-us-engagement-in-and-concerns-over-sri-lanka

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Timeline of post-war violencehttp://groundviews.org/2011/06/11/months-after-the-18th-amendment-is-the-executive-really-more-accountable-to-parliament

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Timeline on reconciliation’s failurehttp://groundviews.org/2012/08/03/sri-lankas-llrc-a-timeline-from-inception-to-implementation/

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Facebook for bearing witnesshttps://www.facebook.com/groundviews

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Facebook for racismhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Buddhism-බු#-දහම-ආර)ෂාකරමු/318576704821497

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Facebook for religious extremismhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Buddhism-බු#-දහම-ආර)ෂාකරමු/318576704821497

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Facebook for dissent through memeshttps://www.facebook.com/slmemes

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Today’s challenges from civic media

SearchingContextualisation, semantics and feature extractionData visualisationMany sourcing, verification and curation

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