Empowered: Witness equips and trains people to document human-rights violations (as above, in Kenya). Its new video-sharing site the Hub extends its reach astronomically. | photograph courtesy of Witness
Peter Gabriel's human-rights group embraces social media. A YouTube for unseen atrocities.
The challenge going forward, says Gabriel, is "to scale up effectively." YouTube recently launched its own channel of human-rights videos from various sources -- including Witness. But so far, there's no other site that's cultivating a community around the videos that can translate awareness into action.
"There will be more challenges," says Thijm, who is working to develop both a mobile version of the site and applications that will run on platforms including Symbian and iPhone. "But it's up to people to change the world. Technology is a tool. How we use it is what counts."
Correction: We incorrectly stated the number of human-rights videos that have been uploaded to the Hub as 1,400. The correct number is 1,442. We regret the error.
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