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Human Rights & ICTs

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Sanjana Hattotuwa
Sanjana Hattotuwa

Human Rights & ICTs. A presentation delivered on 1 April 2017 to Amnesty International's 2017 Chairs Assembly and Director's Forum (CADF), held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Human Rights & ICTs Digital loci of activism and advocacy around HR today Sanjana Hattotuwa
Human Rights & ICTs
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Sri Lanka’s debt situation is severe. The country is currently in $58.3 billion deep to foreign financiers, and 95.4% of all government revenue is currently going towards paying back its loans. This means that out of every hundred dollars the government brings in only $4.60 is going towards essentials like education and public services. China Tells Sri Lanka: We Want Our Money, Not Your Empty Airport http://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/07/31/china-to-sri-lanka-we-want-our-money-not-your-empty- airport/#3dcaa4481169
discursive loci
discursive loci
what’s new? • Democratisation of the technologies of bearing witness • Social media as the new Trafalgar Squares • Acts of journalism. More media, less journalism. • Information glut vs. intelligence paucity.
How can technology help? Bearing witness within cycles of violence
Recording for posterity Wordpress, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Vimeo, Bundlr, Storify, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Flickr, Infogr.am, Typeform, Google Maps, Google Earth, Timeline.js, Tiki Toki, Ushahidi CrowdMap, OpenStreetMap, SMS, Mobile Apps, HTML5, Adobe Spark, Microsoft Sway, Atavist, WhatsApp
A safe space Civility, agree to disagree
Curation • ~7.5 million words in 50,260 comments • ~8.4 million words over 3,375 articles • no break in ten years
Human Rights & ICTs
Human Rights & ICTs
Human Rights & ICTs
Human Rights & ICTs
The end of war Zero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
Mass graves From 2009 to end of 2011
Moving Images Photography to capture change | www.movingimages.asia
Mediated Using art to shape perceptions | saskiafernandogallery.com/ exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.
30 Years Ago New media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia
Short & Sweet Using fiction to interrogate a violent past
Technology & theatre Using theatre to interrogate texts
Watch This Space Art, Transitional Justice and Accountability
Corridors of Power Merging architecture and constitutional theory
World Changing Ideas 2017: Finalist Urban Design
Citizen archivist Archiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
1.Army (8) 2.Berghof Foundation (2) 3.Bhashawa.lk (1) 4.CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1) 5.CIMIC – Jaffna (1) 6.Citizens Commission (1) 7.Citizens Commission on Expulsion of Muslims – October 1990 (1) 8.Citizens.lk (1) 9.COI (1) 10.Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1) 11.Colomboscope (1) 12.Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka (1) 13.Cost of War (1) 14.CPA (1) 15.Department of Government Printing (1) 16.Dept. of Census and Statistics (1) 17.Desmond de Silva (1) 18.Development (1) 19.Deyata Kirula (1) 20.Eastern Revival (1) 21.External Resources Department (1) 22.FMM (1) 23.Government Information Department (1) 24.Groundviews (1) 25.Groundviews Facebook (1) 26.IIGEP (2) 27.InfoShare (1) 28.Jayantha Dhanapala (1) 29.JVP (2) 30.Lanka Logistics & Technologies Ltd (1) 31.LLRC Action Plan (3) 32.LLRC NAP (3) 33.LTTE Dept. of IR (1) 34.LTTE Peace Secretariat (2) 35.Mahinda Rajapaksa (2) 36.Maithripala Sirisena (2) 37.Manthri.lk (1) 38.MCNS (1) 39.Media at risk (1) 40.Megapolis (1) 41.Mihin Lanka (1) 42.Milinda Moragoda (1) 43.Ministry of Defence (1) 44.Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) (1) 45.Ministry of Mass Media (1) 46.Momentum (1) 47.Namal Rajapaksa (1) 48.National Freedom Front (1) 49.National Housing Policy (1) 50.National Movement for Social Justice (1) 51.National Peace Council (1) 52.NESOHR (1) 53.News.lk (1) 54.NGO Secretariat (1) 55.OCDS (1) 56.Official Languages Commission (1) 57.ONUR (1) 58.PACT (1) 59.Political parties (9) 60.President's Media Division (PMD) (1) 61.Presidential Commission To Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (1) 62.Presidential Secretariat (1) 63.Prime Minister's Website (1) 64.Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Limited (1) 65.Regaining Sri Lanka (1) 66.Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs (1) 67.RTI Watch (1) 68.SCOPP (3) 69.Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms (1) 70.SLFP (1) 71.SLPI & SLCJ (1) 72.Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF) (1) 73.Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1) 74.Tamil National Alliance (1) 75.Tamilnet (1) 76.Tharunyata Hetak (1) 77.TNA (2) 78.Tsunami (1) 79.Udayanga Weeratunga (1) 80.UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1) 81.United National Party – UNP (1) 82.UTHR(J) (1) 83.Vikalpa (1) 84.WRMPP (2) 85.Your Constitution (1)
Human Rights & ICTs
Their stories matter Tech secondary
‘birds of a feather, flock together’ digital echo chambers homiphily
adult literary vs. media illiteracy fake news
cognitive neuroscientists, social marketers, telcos not in the room
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson
thank you sanjanah@cpalanka.org

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  • 1. Human Rights & ICTs Digital loci of activism and advocacy around HR today Sanjana Hattotuwa
  • 4. Sri Lanka’s debt situation is severe. The country is currently in $58.3 billion deep to foreign financiers, and 95.4% of all government revenue is currently going towards paying back its loans. This means that out of every hundred dollars the government brings in only $4.60 is going towards essentials like education and public services. China Tells Sri Lanka: We Want Our Money, Not Your Empty Airport http://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/07/31/china-to-sri-lanka-we-want-our-money-not-your-empty- airport/#3dcaa4481169
  • 7. what’s new? • Democratisation of the technologies of bearing witness • Social media as the new Trafalgar Squares • Acts of journalism. More media, less journalism. • Information glut vs. intelligence paucity.
  • 8. How can technology help? Bearing witness within cycles of violence
  • 9. Recording for posterity Wordpress, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Vimeo, Bundlr, Storify, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Flickr, Infogr.am, Typeform, Google Maps, Google Earth, Timeline.js, Tiki Toki, Ushahidi CrowdMap, OpenStreetMap, SMS, Mobile Apps, HTML5, Adobe Spark, Microsoft Sway, Atavist, WhatsApp
  • 10. A safe space Civility, agree to disagree
  • 11. Curation • ~7.5 million words in 50,260 comments • ~8.4 million words over 3,375 articles • no break in ten years
  • 16. The end of war Zero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
  • 17. Mass graves From 2009 to end of 2011
  • 18. Moving Images Photography to capture change | www.movingimages.asia
  • 19. Mediated Using art to shape perceptions | saskiafernandogallery.com/ exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.
  • 20. 30 Years Ago New media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia
  • 21. Short & Sweet Using fiction to interrogate a violent past
  • 22. Technology & theatre Using theatre to interrogate texts
  • 23. Watch This Space Art, Transitional Justice and Accountability
  • 24. Corridors of Power Merging architecture and constitutional theory
  • 25. World Changing Ideas 2017: Finalist Urban Design
  • 26. Citizen archivist Archiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
  • 27. 1.Army (8) 2.Berghof Foundation (2) 3.Bhashawa.lk (1) 4.CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1) 5.CIMIC – Jaffna (1) 6.Citizens Commission (1) 7.Citizens Commission on Expulsion of Muslims – October 1990 (1) 8.Citizens.lk (1) 9.COI (1) 10.Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1) 11.Colomboscope (1) 12.Constitutional Assembly of Sri Lanka (1) 13.Cost of War (1) 14.CPA (1) 15.Department of Government Printing (1) 16.Dept. of Census and Statistics (1) 17.Desmond de Silva (1) 18.Development (1) 19.Deyata Kirula (1) 20.Eastern Revival (1) 21.External Resources Department (1) 22.FMM (1) 23.Government Information Department (1) 24.Groundviews (1) 25.Groundviews Facebook (1) 26.IIGEP (2) 27.InfoShare (1) 28.Jayantha Dhanapala (1) 29.JVP (2) 30.Lanka Logistics & Technologies Ltd (1) 31.LLRC Action Plan (3) 32.LLRC NAP (3) 33.LTTE Dept. of IR (1) 34.LTTE Peace Secretariat (2) 35.Mahinda Rajapaksa (2) 36.Maithripala Sirisena (2) 37.Manthri.lk (1) 38.MCNS (1) 39.Media at risk (1) 40.Megapolis (1) 41.Mihin Lanka (1) 42.Milinda Moragoda (1) 43.Ministry of Defence (1) 44.Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) (1) 45.Ministry of Mass Media (1) 46.Momentum (1) 47.Namal Rajapaksa (1) 48.National Freedom Front (1) 49.National Housing Policy (1) 50.National Movement for Social Justice (1) 51.National Peace Council (1) 52.NESOHR (1) 53.News.lk (1) 54.NGO Secretariat (1) 55.OCDS (1) 56.Official Languages Commission (1) 57.ONUR (1) 58.PACT (1) 59.Political parties (9) 60.President's Media Division (PMD) (1) 61.Presidential Commission To Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (1) 62.Presidential Secretariat (1) 63.Prime Minister's Website (1) 64.Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Limited (1) 65.Regaining Sri Lanka (1) 66.Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs (1) 67.RTI Watch (1) 68.SCOPP (3) 69.Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms (1) 70.SLFP (1) 71.SLPI & SLCJ (1) 72.Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF) (1) 73.Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1) 74.Tamil National Alliance (1) 75.Tamilnet (1) 76.Tharunyata Hetak (1) 77.TNA (2) 78.Tsunami (1) 79.Udayanga Weeratunga (1) 80.UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1) 81.United National Party – UNP (1) 82.UTHR(J) (1) 83.Vikalpa (1) 84.WRMPP (2) 85.Your Constitution (1)
  • 30. ‘birds of a feather, flock together’ digital echo chambers homiphily
  • 31. adult literary vs. media illiteracy fake news
  • 32. cognitive neuroscientists, social marketers, telcos not in the room
  • 33. The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson