OPEN VIDEO PROJECT
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Purpose
Global promotion of online video policies and social practices that support the broadest means of civic participation and creative expression including:
- balanced network/telecommunications policy to ensure that many voices will be heard in the coming video ecosystem, and
- balanced intellectual property policy to ensure that users can engage in critical dialogues using video.
Deliverables
Brazil
Develop research and statements for Brazilian internet policy and conduct local policy workshops. These efforts will be integrated with the Ministry of Culture’s digital archives project.
Four-week tour of higher learning institutions in India to share the importance of Open Education and Open Video. We will also facilitate meetings with various stakeholders in India and foster collaboration with local community-based FOSS and free culture-related groups.
Open Video Summit in Bangalore on Dec 15
Open Video Summit India summary
Conference materials
Localize Open Video Conference materials (websites, statements, research) in multiple languages and provide translated subtitles for videos from the Open Video Conference.
Open Video Alliance web materials are now available in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and subtitles have been generated for all Open Video Conference 2010 program materials and videos. Subtitles are being created in collaboration with PCF and the Universal Subtitles project.
Open Video Day – Wireside Chat Feb 25
Coordinate an international day of workshops to engage communities with a stake in video IP and media policy issues. Global participants will have the option to simultaneously tune in to a webcast-keynote about video and net neutrality. Events will span the gamut from IP policy teach-ins, to developer hackathons, to research colloquia, to workshops for activists.
Open Video Day: Wireside Chat summary
Workshop on Archives and Wikimedia
NPYL Conference on Archives and Wikimedia summary
Open Video Conference 2010
Open Video Conference 2010 summary
Research
In cooperation with our academic partners, oversee and conduct research surrounding the current state of video and exploring the role of openness in innovation and the public interest resulting in at least three white papers.
Public Advocacy
Introduce these debates to broader audiences through outreach to the press, bloggers, and other media outlets as well as to other, related communities at a variety of events and conferences, organizing workshops, talks, and circulating information.
Personnel
Ben Moskowitz, Program Coordinator, is also coordinator of the Open Video Alliance, a coalition to democratize the moving image. Ben co-founded the UC Berkeley chapter of Students for Free Culture and taught a seminar on the politics of piracy at Berkeley’s School of Information. He currently serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture.
Elizabeth Stark, Program Advisor, is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Harvard Advocates for Human Rights to make better use of new media to promote human rights. Elizabeth has taught courses ranging from Cyberlaw to Intellectual Property to Technology & Politics to Electronic Music. She recently produced the inaugural Open Video Conference.
Dean Jansen, Project Coordinator, is part of the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a non-profit focused on reforming television and video as it moves online. PCF has developed a free and open source video aggregator, Miro, to change the way mass-media works, by giving control of Internet TV back to the public. Miro lowers the bar for anyone to create their own online TV channel. Jansen does outreach and community development for the Miro Community and PCF.
Adi Kamdar, Media Coordinator, is an undergraduate at Yale University, Class of 2012, undergraduate fellow with Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, President and co-founder of the Yale chapter of Students for Free Culture. Kamdar works on the Open Access @ Yale movement, is Media Coordinator with the Open Video Alliance, interned with OVA to put on Open Video Conference. He is also a member of the Purple Crayon improv troupe and was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, 2006
Josh Levy, Project Associate, is a producer and advocate of independent media based in New York City. He studied at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA before graduating from Eugene Lang College at The New School with a BA in Culture and Media. Focusing on digital technology and social change, he has previously interned at DCTV and the Software Freedom Law Center. Current areas of research include the ethics and artistry of developing new methods of creating, distributing, and sharing media. He also works in freelance film and video production.
Siddarth Chada, Research Associate, is a film maker far away from Bollywood and a journalist far away from the mainstream. Having studied Economics at Delhi University and Broadcast Journalism at ACJ, Chennai. Chadha collects emerging ethno-cultural narratives on the piracy on streets as well as emerging trends on the internet in India, a debate currently hijacked by anti-piracy organizations using legislation and enforcement to safeguard industry interests. He has worked as a Community Media Practitioner with Drishti Media and Video Volunteers, training villagers in Gujarat in film and video production and also as producer for the US based Current TV and News 9, a Bangalore based news network. Chadha is producing a documentary for the project entitled Video Wallahs.
Collaborators
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Participatory Culture Foundation |
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Ministry of Culture Brazil |
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