by donating portable dv cameras to where crime happens, the camera records the injustice that are happening.... the following quote really inspired me:
"You can say a story is fabricated
You can say a jury is corrupted
You can say a person is lying,
You can say you don’t trust newspapers,
But you can’t say,
What you
Just saw
Never
Happened
Help witness give camera to the world
Shoot a video
Expose injustice
Reveal the truth
Show us what’s wrong with the world
And maybe we can help
Make it right "
this is a possible product direction i might work with! (collaborating with technology to educate the targeted villagers what is really happening to their children, or girls that are "abroad.
this video is very powerful! hope you enjoy it as much as i did!
see you guys tomorrow!
2 comments:
Very interesting, Angela. Thanks very much for posting that. You may be on to something here regarding the possible use of cheap video cameras in connection to stopping human trafficking. In the second video, I think it said that, even though it was not always possible to catch the crime itself on video, the presence of cameras might have a positive outcome and might discourage some criminals from acting brazenly, as they do now when they are "recruiting" children for dubious overseas "jobs".
Now, the annoying question that I must ask you is: how do you imagine turning this notion into a product? Are you proposing some kind of very cheap video camera that could be distributed in at-risk areas? Maybe with non-language specific instructions? But, if these places are really poor, won't people just sell the cameras? Are you imagining people in dirt poor villages in Burma walking around carry cameras and video taping each other? How would the footage be used and transferred to the internet? Or, are you thinking about something more abstract than this, perhaps a kind of social monitoring and shaming that could be done without actual video taping, some way to record bad men in the act, and then distribute information about them so that people will stay away. By the way, in the movie Trade, they actually show a guy drive up in a fancy car and offer a coke to a group of homeless kids before kidnapping them.
see you tomorrow.
steven
Dear SL,
you're absolutely right with cameras being unrealistic in poverty areas. If i were to design the camera itself- it would have to be solar powered with low production fees. i guess it will be acting as a social monitoring and shaming device among the villagers? (76% of human traffickers identified in thailand are friends, cousins, even family members of the targeted victim)
I am still working on my ideas! I am really excited that i seem to be finding actual "product"to work with instead of coming up with another campaign/ donating system
looking forward to see you tomorrow
Angela
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