bearing witness through civic media
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Bearing witness through civic mediaSanjana Hattotuwa
TED Fellow alumnFounding Editor, www.groundviews.org
Mobile phone imagery http://groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps
Social witnessinghttp://groundviews.org/2012/07/31/ganesan-nimalaruban-a-damning-murder-funeral-and-silence/
War crimes? Digital image forensicshttp://groundviews.org/2011/07/02/photographic-evidence-of-war-crimes-in-sri-lanka-or-not/
Twitter for posterityhttp://groundviews.org/2011/07/04/resource-book-for-historians-researchers-and-media-a-year-of-tweeting-from-groundviews
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
Curation: Bundlrhttp://bundlr.com/b/questions-to-amb-robert-blake
Curation: Bundlrhttp://groundviews.org/2012/04/18/the-questions-unanswered-by-amb-robert-blake-mapping-us-engagement-in-and-concerns-over-sri-lanka
Timeline of post-war violencehttp://groundviews.org/2011/06/11/months-after-the-18th-amendment-is-the-executive-really-more-accountable-to-parliament
Timeline on reconciliation’s failurehttp://groundviews.org/2012/08/03/sri-lankas-llrc-a-timeline-from-inception-to-implementation/
Facebook for bearing witnesshttps://www.facebook.com/groundviews
Facebook for dissent through memeshttps://www.facebook.com/slmemes
Facebook for racismhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Protect-the-Buddhism-බු#-දහම-ආර)ෂාකරමු/318576704821497