Why Digital Video?

 
 

Possible uses:


  1. • The documentation of human rights violations

  2. • The expression of local perspectives and realities

  3. • The documentation of traditions and knowledges

  4. • The use of digital documents as testimony before the courts

  5. • etc...

 

Video is:


  1. • SIMPLE (easy to learn)

  2. • INEXPENSIVE  (easy to acquire and repair)

  3. • EFFICIENT  (easy to understand and communicate)

   

The accessibility of this technology makes of it a good tool for enhancing community self-organization and facilitating the active participation of the community in vital processes of social change.


The “universal language” of the visual transcends cultural boundaries, enabling – with the connectivity of the Internet – the wide communication of local narratives and perspectives to non-locals.