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Submitted by zoe on Tue, 2009-03-03 23:36

http://www.ifiwatch.tv is broadening focus to include more material on the reforms to the international financial architecture currently being proposed in response to the financial crisis.

In particular we are featuring the upcoming G20 meetings in London - and the popular alternatives, protests and so forth.

Lots of new material coming through, but more new feeds needed - do you know of a good source of info? please suggest it! let's syndicate! and do take our media feeds, from keywords or search if you only want a little from these waves of detailed info...

New Plumi Release - 0.2.2

Submitted by anna on Fri, 2008-12-05 09:57

We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Plumi, 0.2.2, a free and open source video-sharing software package for Plone.

This release was focused on user-enhancements, with several small improvements that should make a big difference to users, including:

* A new animation during video upload to indicate uploading.
* Transcoding messages are now only seen by site managers.
* The featured video now includes a flash player on the front page - no need to go digging for your first streaming video experience!
* Workflow improvements - consistent across videos, callouts, news and events.
* Video listings template improvement - the country metadata on each video is now listed.
* Implementation of latest version of the Transmission Metadata Standard 1.0 release candidate. The Transmission Metadata Standard is designed to enable better content sharing between projects in the Transmission network of social change online video initiatives. For more info on the standard and working group please view the TX wiki here: http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Metadata_working_group

For a full list of changes view the changelog:
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/Plumi/branches/plumi-0.2.x/CHANGELOG.txt

You can download this version of Plumi here in the Plone repository:
http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/0.2.2-final

We will be working on a minor bug fix release 0.2.2.1 shortly - including these fixes:
http://plumi.org/report/3

If you are running a Plumi site please let us know so we can showcase your project here on the Plumi blog:
http://blog.plumi.org/

Here are some interesting new Plumi sites to check out:
http://www.uni-bonn.tv/
http://studidirittopenale.cab.unipd.it/
http://plumi.domainepublic.net/

EngageMedia partnered with iCommons recently to produce a Plumi site for the iSummit in Sapporo, Japan, which showcased pioneering approaches to furthering digital culture around the world:
http://video.icommonssummit.org/

We're always looking for people to get involved in Plumi, so drop us a line if you would like to become a developer on the project, if you have code to contribute, or if you would like to take part in testing.

Cheers,
The Plumi Team

Newstalk Trust( A Media for Social Justice & Development)

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-11-25 07:17

Newstalk Trust
Media for Change & Development
Registered under Indian public Charitable Trust Act, on dated 26 may, 2001

A Professionally Managed, Non-Profit Broadcasting Media production house offers its production/distribution services for:

• Awareness Generation Films
• Documentaries & Short Films
• Campaign & Ad. Films
• Video News Release
• Event coverage
• Training Films
• Bulk CD/DVD duplication-Replication with 4 color printing on disk and pack box

Our Clients:
• NGO’s
• Donors & Funding Agencies
• Church & Faith Organizations
• UN Agencies
• Broadcasters
And many more
Be a Partner for Change

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Dalit TV
Voice to Voiceless
A 24 Hrs. Broadband News Channel

We are happy to inform you that we are launching India’s 1st Dalit TV channel (Dalit tv) to give voice to more than 200 million Voiceless Dalits (oppressed People) in India.

India’s TV channels and Media organizations are controls and managed by upper caste corporations, they don’t want to give space to Dalits in their TV networks.

Dalit tv- is an only alternative for Indian dalits.
We believe video can play vital role to change the society.

Aims and objectives of Dalit TV are:

 Give voice to the Dalits and marginalized sections of Indian people

 Educate dalit communities about their right and dues through visual media.

 Play the role of a responsible media by becoming a bridge between the Govt. /policymakers and community.

 Communicate news-views and discusses concerning our dalit communities.

 Promote better sense of democracy among Dalits.

 Provide materials/original picture of dalits to international NGO’s and Govt. Agencies.

 Encourage entrepreneurship among dalit youths.

About ourselves:

Newstalk Trust is a development Communication Network, registered under Indian public Charitable Trust Act-1920 on March 12, 2001. Organization is recognized by the various national & international Agencies and Govt. Depts. It is engaged in production of Community News-Features, Documentary Films and News Stories on Social and Developmental issues.
This Professionally Managed, non-Profit Broadcasting Media production house offers its production services for:

• Awareness Generation Films
• Documentaries & Short Films
• Campaign & Ad. Films
• Video News Release
• Event coverage
• Training Films
• Bulk CD/DVD duplication-Replication with 4 color printing on disk and pack box

Our Clients:
• NGO’s
• Donors & Funding Agencies
• Church & Faith Organizations
• UN Agencies
• Broadcasters
And many more

Photos: - Ram Bharati on Location shooting

Young Dalit Christian Filmmaker/Video journalist Mr. Ram Bharati founded Newstalk Trust. He has more than 20 years experience in print & electronics Media. He won international awards for production of issue-based documentaries.

Production-Distribution & Broadcasting cost:
This channel will broadcast worldwide through broadband/ internet. Besides, channel will also tie-up with world fame video sharing sites like; Youtube, Veoh and many more and supply its programs to various community tv channels worldwide. We have completed all the necessary formalities to start the channel.
The production/broadcasting cost of this project is $60,000 a year.

Format:

Shooting: DV
Post Production: Non-Linear Editing
Broadcasting-Distribution: Broadband/web TV

Funding Partnership/Donations:

We are looking for funding partners/ Donors.
As you are doing great work for the welfare of Dalits we request you to kindly support this cost-effective and powerful change making tool –Dalit TV.
If you need any clarification we are ready to do so.

Yours in Christ,
Ram Bharati
Founder & Managing Trustee-
Newstalk Trust
Chief Producer-
Dalit TV
Voice to Voiceless
Iris Villa.
A-163 DDA Flats, Gazipur
New Delhi-110096
Cell: 09210194672
Email: newstalktv@gmail.com

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New Version of Plumi released

Submitted by tx on Mon, 2008-09-29 11:54

A new version of Plumi, a Plone based video sharing platform, has been released. For more information check the link...

http://blog.plumi.org/2008/09/25/new-plumi-release-and-moving-to-plone-3/

TXAP Reports

Submitted by tx on Fri, 2008-06-06 12:07

From May 19-25 2008 fifty-five tech and video activists gathered in West Java, Indonesia to share code and stories. Organised by EngageMedia and the Jakarta based Ruangrupa Transmission Asia-Pacific brought together projects from 15 different countries, from Japan to India, and China to New Zealand, to discuss ways to most effectively use online video as a social change tool.

Transmission is a network of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy. The objective is to make independent online video distribution possible using Free and Open Source Software by building the necessary tools, standards, documentation and social networks.

TXAP included close to 50 workshops covering video podcasting, video and human rights, collaboration around regional film festivals, developing content management systems for online video distribution, open source development, video streaming and much more.

The 5 days included a series of nightly screenings covering People's Power Indonesia post 1998, counter-globalisation movements, environment and the land, Let’s Talk About Sex baby!, political repression and human rights.

You can find documentation of the event on the wiki here http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Txap. Photos can be found here http://flickr.com/search/?q=txap&m=tags

New Model Video Feed Aggregator Now Online

Submitted by zoe on Thu, 2008-06-05 15:25

[http://www.IFIwatch.tv IFIwatch.tv] offers free and easy access to the latest independent videos to shine a light on the problems and practices of development financing institutions worldwide. These are the videos that rarely make it into the mainstream media. Videos that governments and corporations would often rather were not shared....

Critical documentary, protest reports, animations, interviews and more; unheard perspectives gathered from wherever they are published on the net, and transmitted direct to your computer.

Using media RSS, you can now be automatically updated with media in your areas of interest, even making your own online video channel - simply by subscribing to our keyword-based media feeds.

Why are we doing this?
IFIs like the World Bank carefully manage their image in the mainstream press, and increasingly in alternative media such as YouTube. Meanwhile films that give voice to communities devastated by IFI-backed investments, to critical science and analysis, to street protests and civil society campaigns for transparency and accountability, struggle to reach interested audiences.

New technologies of internet TV mean that this is beginning to change.

This free media portal is for educators, activists, journalists, film-makers, students, officials and anyone else interested in what multilateral bodies are doing with our money, our neighbours, and our planet. Once we have this portal working as well as it can be, we aim to provide the software for free to any other networks to share media in their own fields of interest.

How the site works
IFIwatch.tv is regularly updated with independent media on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Regional Development Banks such as the African Development Bank. Films listed here unveil the realities behind the projects and policies promoted with public money and advertised to 'help the poor' and 'conserve the environment'.

We are working with the [http://Drupal.org Drupal] free and open source software, [http://www.IFIWatchnet.org IFIWatchnet] (connecting organisations worldwide which are monitoring international financial institutions) and the Transmission network (developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy).

Up to date listings of independent films made about the IFIs are collected (using Media RSS and Atom feeds) and displayed here. Each video listing features links to online video producer/distributor contact details (where available). To save you returning regularly in pursuit of new movies, you can subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds from the keywords that most interest you. You will then receive automatic updates when new media is listed in your area of interest. Explanations of these services are here: Using Media RSS and Drupal Aggregation of Media Feeds

How you can help
Search, watch and spread the media! Subscribe to our feeds, suggest new ones, Tell your friends and colleagues about IFIwatch.tv and what can be done now using Drupal and the FeedAPI.

If you know of a film that should be listed in this database, especially if it is not already listed anywhere online, why not register and add the details yourself? This site creates a web page for the film, and enables news of its publication to be syndicated around the web (using media RSS).

If you have a relevant website, please suggest links as appropriate. If you have a video database that generates relevant feeds, definitely be in touch.

We very much welcome help with networking, publicity, development, new services etc. Contact us with any practical questions, suggestions of feeds or videos to feature, offers of technical and financial support etc. E-mail "eyes - at - ifiwatchnet.org"

Indymedia Workshop Had Produced A Simple News Article For Transmission 2008

Submitted by jongpirate on Sat, 2008-05-24 08:00

Artists and Hackers United at Sukabumi

SUKABUMI, West Java - A network of individuals and groups who are into media activism have come together in an event called Transmission Asia-Pacific 2008 (TX-AP) to share their skills on online video distribution and video activism.

TX-AP's programme includes workshops that range from technical topics like using open source video encoders to community-based filmmaking.

Apart from the day-time workshops, there are also screenings every night, the variety and amount of works shown is quite enough for an independent film festival. The informative (and often impromptu) conversations that happened whenever there is opportunity also are sources of ideas for people to work back home or together across a wider region.

The opportunity to build a network of activists from all countries whose interests differ and overlap on issues like community building, poverty, indigenous issues, free and open source software, media freedom, gender issues is also making TXAP a success.

As a matter of fact, we're actually writing this during a workshop about Indymedia itself and everyone's contributing. The Internet's a bit shaky here at the moment so we'll post a lot of photos and videos once we can.

Thanks to the Indymedia workshop at TX-AP, activists from Singapore feel inspired to set up an Indymedia Centre in Singapore.

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collectively written by TX-AP08 Indymedia Session participants.
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Intergalactica Autonomia

Submitted by jongpirate on Wed, 2008-05-21 15:36

hello world. a network of intergalactic individuals from around the Asian continent including the Western hemisphere has come together for an intergalactic gathering to create molecular spaces for the benefit of the marginalized Public. they named the gathering as TRANSMISSION ASIA PACIFIC 2008.

in the middle of Western Java jungle where the intergalactic individuals is harbored, a temporary autonomous space has sprouted along them. telling the outside world that Power can be expropriated for the betterment of everyone. and Babylon shall crumble down to its knees through the beauty of Sharing.

Transmission Transversal!

Pictures of Our Time Together

Submitted by tiffiniy on Tue, 2008-05-20 23:05

Hi all, I don't have a digital camera and was wondering if there will be a dedicated space for posting digipics? I would love to start seeing some of the pictures that people have taken for instant gratification. Thanks all.

Kampung Halaman Foundation

Submitted by kampunghalaman on Mon, 2008-05-19 03:23

Founded at April 2006, Kampung Halaman is a non-profit organization that fosters the use of audio visual medium through popular-community based programs, particularly targeting youth in pursuing the transformation towards a better society.

Transmission is a network of video makers, programmers and web producers developing online video distribution as a tool for social justice and media democracy.