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Guide to Global Communication and Collaboration
Objective
To create a guide to citizen journalism including collecting, distributing and disseminating media. Security issues already discussed in The CryptoParty Handbook should not be duplicated here.
Why?
The first right of any person in any society must be the right to communicate. Without communication there is no way to safeguard our other rights, and we cannot participate directly in a society.
A person who interprets another’s voice instead of amplifying it is assuming control over the message. International media who pretend to write stories about groups whose voices are never heard write almost universally through the lens of Western men instead, ensuring that all interpretations and solutions come from the same small segment of society. Wars are told from the point of view of arms dealers and politicians, disasters are interpreted by NGOs, and most issues are never covered at all. Official channels decide what will or will not be revealed, and media are rewarded for their obedience by access to more official information.
The Internet provides the opportunity for all to have an equal voice free of relation to others.
To allow local governance and solutions, local voices must be the ones to formulate problems and create dialogue. People who are currently faceless and voiceless do not need another to be their face and voice. When there is a need of emergency response by the world to local problems, we must have a way to immediately amplify local voices to a global volume. We need a system where urgent local news can be collected and amplified globally when necessary, and where the people of the world decide which news is important, not official news channels and organizations or celebrity nodes.
Many citizen journalism guides exist, written by various NGOs and others. We need a crowdsourced version that can be peer reviewed and updated by anyone.
Audio
Video
Files
Affidavits
HTML? Text?
Electronic transfer
physical transfer
geocaching
livestreaming?
every channel p2p, social media, etc