OneWorldTV is an open documentary platform showcasing videos on human rights, sustainable development and environmental issues.
I asked Gareth why OneWorldTV came into existence and where they hope the platform will go in the future.
Click to download his statement or press play below:
Gareth appears to be a serious evangelist for Podcasting and has
recommended that participants look at the mechanism for delivering rich media content. OneWorldTV have moved themselves into Video Podcasting, and release a monthly feed / download to those interested. He’s encouraging participants to use content acquisition devices that they already have - Mobile Phones! A picture paints a thousand words!
Rather than purely restricting their content to their own platform, they have taken to using other, more known platforms, such as YouTube. By doing so, they expect to attract larger audiences. He also recommends MySpace, where they have found it easy to build networks of interest quickly!
Other organisations worth looking at (all of these are linked):
- Witness (Human Rights)
- Green TV (Environmental)
- IndyMedia (Anti - Globalisation / Anti - Corporate)
- Divo Project (Ghana based ‘cultural understanding’ project)
- others include ourmedia, current tv, engage media, undercurrents
He’s moving into ‘DotSub’, which uses wiki technology to provide video subtitling tools, opening up access to a world - wide audience. The purpose of DotSub is to allow volunteers to subtitle films. Being a bit clever, it allows people to subtitle into many different languages! For a demo of how it works, click here.
The group are now experimenting with it for themselves.
I think it’s a very neat way of enabling communities of people to share video material. My only question relates to quality control. Would this be a problem?
Hi Gareth
It’s been too many months since we last spoke. dotSUB has been moving along on many fronts - we just completed at major project with Ashoka subtitling their 47 minute “Banker to the Poor”, about Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, into 62 languagues using professional translators paid from a grant from Visa. You can watch the film at Ashoka’s site at
http://ashoka.org/100translations
scroll down to the film, hit the play button, and hit the up/down arrows at the bottom of the video player to see the film in each of the 62 languages. This is what I see OneWorld’s video library might look like.
Hope to speak to you soon.
Michael Smolens
dotSUB