Name: The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths
Uploaded: 2017-12-19T20:53:46Z
Duration: 12 min 21 s
Description: Could smartphones and cameras be our most powerful weapons for social justice? Through her organization Witness, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm is developing strategies and technologies to help activists use video to protect and defend human rights. She shares stories of the growing power of distant witnesses -- and a call to use the powerful tools at our disposal to capture incidents of injustice.

Could smartphones and cameras be our most powerful weapons for social justice? Through her organization Witness, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm is developing strategies and technologies to help activists use video to protect and defend human rights. She shares stories of the growing power of distant witnesses -- and a call to use the powerful tools at our disposal to capture incidents of injustice.

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm: The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths

The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths

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