Not In Our Name initiative in Sri Lanka: TV trailer

Young Asia Television kindly produced this 15 second TV spot for the Not In Our Name initiative.

International Network of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) 2011 keynote address

I was privileged to deliver a keynote address at the 2011 International Network of Crisis Mappers, held in Geneva from 14-15 November, 2011. The ICCM network has now kindly put a video of my keynote on YouTube.

Civic media, citizen journalism and role of information in democracy

A brief interview with the Ashoka Foundation, conducted during the 2011 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference in Boston.

Video interview with Chamath Ariyadasa, the pioneer of SMS news services in Sri Lanka

Young Asia Television has just posted online my interview with Chamath Ariyadasa, the brains behind Jasmine Newswires (JNW), the company that provides a number of us with vital news updates via SMS.

Read more about JNW:

• News and information through SMS!
• News and information through SMS – A second look at JasmineNewswires in Sri Lanka
• An event based comparison between Reuters and JNW SMS news alerts on Dialog
• JNW SMS news service returns to Dialog

Read more about challenges facing SMS news services:

• The telling lack of timely SMS news alerts on the arrest and detention of Tamils
• Revenue for content providers vis-à-vis new media
• Reuters breaking news alerts no more on Dialog

My TED Talk

Recorded at TED 2011, Long Beach, California.