Post from Rising Voices on recent conference convened at Berekely’s Human Rights Centre bringing together leading technologists and human rights advocates to discuss new strategies incorporating technology in human rights advocacy. This conference focussed on communities impacted by violations telling their own stories and taking action through citizen media, blogging, and video / photographic work, and change is taking place in how human rights organisations now work with these communities. This throws down a challege to many of the big players in this field who have been slow to react. As Rising Voices says;
‘…the majority of multi-million dollar human rights organizations spend their time and money gathering statistics and publishing reports without ever giving the communities they work with a chance to speak for themselves.’
