Presentation delivered at New Technologies and Human Rights Monitoring workshop at Stanford University, 6-7 August 2012.

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

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

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

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

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

6. Data visualisation for accountability
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/

7. Data visualisation for accountability
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/

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

9. 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

10. Curation: Bundlr
http://bundlr.com/b/questions-to-amb-robert-blake

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

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

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

14. Facebook for bearing witness
https://www.facebook.com/groundviews

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

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

17. Facebook for dissent through memes
https://www.facebook.com/slmemes

18. Today’s challenges from civic media
Searching
Contextualisation, semantics and feature extraction
Data visualisation
Many sourcing, verification and curation

19. Thank you
sanjanah@gmail.com