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At OneWorld we have been developing our use of video on the Internet - we
believe that this aspect of ICT represents a powerful and largely unrealised
tool to raise the impact of organisations working on human rights and
sustainable development. We are now in the process of publicly launching
OneWorld TV and details are below for your interest.
The UK newspaper The Guardian also has a piece on OneWorld TV this week,
available online here:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,764719,00.html
Many thanks,
Glen Tarman, Publicity Manager, OneWorld http://www.oneworld.net
tel: +44 (0)20 7091 4541 email: [log in to unmask]
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ONEWORLD TV PROVIDES VIDEO STORYTELLING TOOLS TO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
OneWorld (http://www.oneworld.net), the international network that includes
more than 1250 NGOs across the globe, now leverages that broad reach to empower
ordinary people to tell their own video stories on OneWorld TV
(http://www.oneworld.net/tv). OneWorldís online interactive TV provides tools
to integrate each story with those on similar topics from peers in other
countries.
This radical approach marries the power of video with the Internet for
collaborative storytelling that helps complex issues come to life in the era of
globalisation.
ìThe future for video on the web is all about the immediacy of raw clips
from filmmakers themselves. For us, it means people on the frontline of
human rights stories who have a camcorder and can access the Internet to
place their footage on OneWorld TV,î says Peter Armstrong, Director of
OneWorld International and for 20 years an award-winning filmmaker for the
BBC.
ìVideo offers a powerful medium that more and more people can use. We have
devised a format that prompts users to explore stories about climate change,
AIDS or the Middle East conflict in a totally new and interactive way.î
In developing this unique ëopen documentaryí software, OneWorld TV
encourages contributors in different countries to upload their own stories
to the site and to add clips to other peopleís stories as part of this new
collaborative approach to storytelling online. OneWorld TV has been
developing links with a growing community of filmmakers, video journalists
and other contributors around the world. Their input is vital to put in
place each piece of the OneWorld TV global jigsaw.
Interactivity is the key to the process, not only in enabling producers to
edit and upload coverage from their laptop wherever they might be, but also in
offering the user a unique experience whereby he or she can choose their own
path through a given story landscape.
Watching OneWorld TV at a recent London BAFTA preview renowned film director
Mike Figgis concluded: ìOneWorld TV is an impressive response to a global media
system that all too often is filtering out both innovation in film-making and
the wider communication of social issues to citizens around world. If you are a
filmmaker concerned about what's going on in our world today, add your stories
to OneWorld TV and join this radical network at the cutting edge of technology
and social change."
One organisation that has already seen the possibilities OneWorld TV offers is
Amnesty International. Their video reports investigating recent events in the
West Bank have been uploaded to the site. Amnestyís Dan Thurley says: "OneWorld
TV is an exciting new space for NGOs, video activists and filmmakers to take
video and human rights out onto the web. It combines the Internet and digital
cameras in the fight to save lives and reduce human suffering."
Gaza-based filmmaker Tamer Mansour said: ìOneWorld TV enables me to tell the
stories that you never see on the news ñ stories from the frontline about
people here waiting for a chance for peace to come.î Amir Terkel, an Israeli
filmmaker based in San Francisco said: ìAs someone working to bring out the
voices of peace and coexistence in our region overlooked by mainstream media,
OneWorld TV is like a reward for all those years of frustration - a vital
window to the world".
Research shows that people in the West gain their view of the world primarily
from television. Yet the amount of factual programmes on the lives and issues
affecting people in developing countries is decreasing as mainstream TV becomes
more commercial and entertainment based. OneWorld TV also aims to help redress
this growing trend providing a forum to increase international understanding
and informed action on world poverty, human rights and the environment.
The technical capacity needed to access video online largely restricts the
audience to developed countries. To counter-balance this digital divide,
OneWorld TV will be a place for voices from developing countries to articulate
their own stories, agendas and perspectives to audiences that they would not
otherwise reach.
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For media enquiries / to arrange interviews with a member of the team behind
OneWorld TV contact:
Glen Tarman (OneWorld Publicity Manager) tel: + 44 (0) 20 7091 4541 email:
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Individuals and organisations who would like to contribute video stories or
become a member of the OneWorld TV community, should contact Jo Hill,
email:
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tel: + 44 (0) 20 7091 4545.
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