(Photo credit: Christopher Fabian of UNICEF & Global Pulse) Just got back from the UN “Pulse Camp 1.0”. Global Pulse is a new and quite ambitious UN initiative “to improve evidence-based decision-making and close the information gap between the onset of a global crisis and the availability of actionable information […]
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For anyone who missed the great forum on slow-moving crises–on those complex stories that never seem to get the right kind of coverage–video is now available on TechTV: MIT Tech TV Clips of the individual speakers are also posted: Roz Williams, an MIT historian who uses imaginative literature as a […]
MIT Tech TV Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive rhetoric for the next terrorist attack; Toyota runs reassuring national TV spots within hours of a product recall; and 32 Massachusetts towns successfully publicize water distribution sites following a water main rupture. However, […]
[View one of the videos.] In April 2009, following an election widely viewed as rigged, protests erupted in Moldova. But closed-circuit video footage of the protests and subsequent violence has been leaked, and the Center for Future Civic Media was approached by the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism to make […]
This is the second in an ongoing series of curated selections of DIY Video prepared in relation to the screening of DIY Video 2010 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and organized by Mimi Ito, Steve Anderson, and the good folks at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. The following […]