Thank you, would love to talk off list.
All the best,
Heather Marsh
@GeorgieBC on Twitter
On 13-03-18 1:19 PM, Brian Conley wrote:
Hi Heather,
First of all, I can't echo Jacob's concerns enough. You can find a
concise overview of the risks of using satellite phones in a guide I
authored last year:
http://smallworldnews.tv/guide/ (specifically:
http://www.smallworldnews.com/Guide/Guide_SatPhone_English.pdf)
If you're still considering using a satellite phone, I would suggest
that, with a clearly defined strategy, strong plan for success, and
acceptance of the risks, there isn't likely to be a more effective
tool for getting verbal or shortform text updates out.
However this means you need not only people inside willing to take the
risks to call out with updates and news, you also need a guarantee
from journalists and news agencies outside that they WILL RUN the
reports. Without guarantees that the news will be used/distributed
broadly, its certainly not worth the risk.
It's true that small cameras taking pictures on microSD cards which
are then transported out by hand is SAFER, it may not be more
effective. Again, without a complete chain of impact from creation to
distribution of the media, nothing will be effective. If your
colleagues will be producing video or photo content, I'd be happy to
provide some advice/resources to improve their work.
I'm happy to speak more, and may be able to put you in touch with some
journalists who would be interested in traveling over, and/or using
the reports your colleagues might produce.
regards
Brian
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:17 PM, ttscanada <ttscan...@riseup.net
<mailto:ttscan...@riseup.net>> wrote:
Hi all,
For those that aren't aware, 800,000 Rohingya people in Burma are
being cut off from communication as the military and government
try to drive them out of the country. Over 100,000 are being
starved to death in concentration camps, the rest are driven into
boats which neighbouring countries are refusing to allow to land.
There have been two large scale massacres as well, one in June,
one in October. Our contacts have been saying for weeks there is
another massacre planned for the end of March, but even if there
weren't, they are living in houses made of straw and plastic bags
with no food or medical aid and the rains are coming. This is a
full scale genocide supported by the current Burma/Myanmar
government. Media and aid groups are blocked and the people are
jailed just for having a TV, they have no phones.
More information, check out over 100 pages of links here
http://topsy.com/s/georgiebc+Rohingya?window=a the #Rohingya tag
on Twitter or google.
We have a way to hopefully get some journalists in to document war
crimes. We need satellite phones for the Rohingya people as well,
as many as possible, donated would be great. If anyone has any
ideas for a good phone source it would be appreciated.
All the best,
Heather Marsh
@GeorgieBC on Twitter
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