Rich, Today a road caravan through Texas starts in El Paso, to promote immigration reform across the state. A tool like OpenWatch would be very useful to ensure all activities of the caravan are broadcast, at least through the Internet, since a lot of the US news media - especially in Texas - is "allergic" to activist event coverage.
How can we go about making this tool available? I need a quick reply, there's an internal conference call in less than two hours, and it would be great if I can tell them something about this.. Ideally a "channel" would be set up in Openwatch with the hashtag #Texas4CIR http://www.rightsworkinggroup.org/event/press-conference-announcing-start-texas4cir-caravan I used it to record the "touch'n'go" stop of the Network Nuns Bus in Dallas last Saturday, and then posted it in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Fn0WN7S8g Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Rich Jones <r...@anomos.info> wrote: > We were asked by members of the media in Turkey who have been shut down to > release a version of our new streaming media capture applications. In an > effort document the history of the struggle and to help show abuses by > authorities there, we are pleased to announce the Occupy Gezi android > application. > > Announcement: > https://openwatch.net/i/87/openwatch-releases-occupygezi-mobile-application > Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.occupygezi > Code: https://github.com/OpenWatch > > You will be able to see all of the media produced by the apps live as it > comes in here: https://openwatch.net/w/occupygezi and we will use the media > received to produce additional documentaries and reports. > > If you've got any feedback, please get at us: t...@openwatch.net > > Thanks!, > > Rich Jones > OpenWatch > > ===================== > > Why Turkey Needs an Independent Free Press - And How OpenWatch Is Helping > > Media conglomeration and an ever-worsening press-freedom record have created > a void in independent reporting in Turkey, so OpenWatch has released a > mobile application for Turkish mobile reporters. > > In support of a free press, the right to demonstrate, and the right to use > media to document the truth, OpenWatch has released an Occupy Gezi > application for Android (with an iPhone version coming out shortly) to allow > people on the ground to collaboratively document the history they are making > together. > > Download the application here on the Google Play store! > > The applications will send videos and photos directly online, where they can > be found in the apps and on the web by following the #occupygezi hashtag on > OpenWatch, which will show a live feed of media as it is received. We have > optimized the application to stream videos and photos to our servers in the > fastest way possible, even in low-connectivity environments. > > We will be producing documentaries and reports using the media created by > the Occupy Gezi applications. All media created is Creative Commons, and all > of the code is Free and Open Source, and available on our GitHub page. We > have also updated our own open source software with additional Turkish > translations. > > Why? > > While thousands of demonstrators took over a public space in an > unprecedented act of mass political protest, the mainstream Turkish media > instead ran documentaries about penguins. This is actually not surprising, > as Turkey, which has the most imprisoned journalists of any country > according to Reporters Without Borders, has been increasingly restrictive of > press freedom in the past few years. > > As a result, much of the coverage of the events in the Turkish streets was > provided by users of social networking services like Twitter. Now, > authorities are targeting social media reporters and provocateurs as well: > Authorities in Turkey have raided the houses and detained 38 people accused > of using social media services to promote insurrection. > > What now? > > Going forward, we hope that people will be able to use mobile media to > document the truth, the history they are making, and to protect themselves > from abusive authorities by capturing and exposing the reality of events. > > The #OccupyGezi App was built on top of open source software which is being > actively developed - there are some bugs, so please report them so that we > can fix them. (It is not an app for anonymous reporting, and we do not make > any such claims - it is an application simply designed to rapidly capture > and redistribute important information which needs to be seen by as many > people as possible. In the future, we do intend to build a separate > architecture to support anonymous submissions, but we take identity security > extremely seriously here, which is why we make no claims about anonymity at > the moment.) > > If you are in Turkey and wish to document your experiences during this > struggle, or just want to show your solidarity, use the application and > share your view with the world! > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? 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