IP Democracy: Peter Gabriel Pitches Human Rights Group at Davos

Rocker Peter Gabriel mingled with the moguls at Davos to pitch a selfless goal: gathering the media’s support for a video site that exposes human rights abuses around the globe. Gabriel is the founder of a group called Witness, which aims to be a central repository for videos that expose human rights abuses. (See video from last year’s TED conference where Gabriel discusses the role of citizen media in human rights abuse exposure.)

Witness has created a video “hub” that organizes the videos by country, depicting human rights abuses in a way that only video can. Gabriel wants media groups to support Witness with money or technology and says he’s in talks with Google, which now owns YouTube, about supporting the project.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on January 28, 2007 1:24 PM to IP Democracy