Bearing witness to yahapalanaya

Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, Groundviews | TED Fellow Alumn

Presidential ElectionYahapalanaya begins

100 day programmeEarly indications of problems

UNFGG wins the General ElectionA bizarre coalition of expedient politics?

Under-reported / Un-reportedThe human cost of development

Under-reported / ErasedInconvenient truths

Promise & realityPolice brutality

“The balance of political power could shift and quickly, not because the previous dispensation and its torch bearers in active politics are looking good and providing an attractive alternative, but because the government is too soon appearing to be wanting on principle and performance.”

How can technology help?Bearing witness within cycles of violence

Recording for posterity

Wordpress, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Google

+, YouTube, Vimeo, Bundlr, Storify, Vimeo,

SoundCloud, Flickr, Infogr.am, Typeform, Google Maps, Google

Earth, Timeline.js, Tiki Toki, Ushahidi CrowdMap,

OpenStreetMap, SMS, Mobile Apps, HTML5

A safe spaceCivility, agree to disagree

Curation

• ~7.5 million words in 50,260 comments

• ~8.4 million words over 3,375 articles • no break in eight years

TwitterFrom peripheral to primary channel of news

Recording human rights#unlk at 22nd HRC sessions

Recording tweets for posterity1 million+ on Sri Lanka

FacebookReaching over 27,000 and beyond

The end of warZero civilian casualties vs. ground realities

Mass gravesFrom 2009 to end of 2011

Moving ImagesPhotography to capture change | www.movingimages.asia

MediatedUsing art to shape perceptions |

saskiafernandogallery.com/exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.

30 Years AgoNew media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia

Short & SweetUsing fiction to interrogate a violent past

Technology & theatreUsing theatre to interrogate texts

Watch This SpaceArt, Transitional Justice and Accountability

Corridors of PowerMerging architecture and constitutional theory

Citizen archivistArchiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com

1.Army (4) 2.Berghof Foundation (2) 3.CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1) 4.Citizens Commission (1) 5.Citizens.lk (1) 6.COI (1) 7.Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1) 8.Colomboscope (1) 9.Cost of War (1) 10.CPA (1) 11.Dept. of Census and Statistics (1) 12.Desmond de Silva (1) 13.Development (1) 14.Eastern Revival (1) 15.FMM (1) 16.Groundviews (1) 17.IIGEP (2) 18.InfoShare (1) 19.Jayantha Dhanapala (1)

20.JVP (1) 21.LLRC Action Plan (2) 22.LLRC NAP (2) 23.LTTE Dept. of IR (1) 24.LTTE Peace Secretariat (2) 25.Mahinda Rajapaksa (2) 26.Maithripala Sirisena (2) 27.MCNS (1) 28.Media at risk (1) 29.Milinda Moragoda (1) 30.Ministry of Defence (1) 31.Momentum (1) 32.Namal Rajapaksa (1) 33.National Freedom Front (1) 34.National Housing Policy (1) 35.National Movement for Social Justice

(1) 36.NESOHR (1) 37.Official Languages Commission (1)

38.PACT (1) 39.Political parties (5) 40.Presidential Commission To

Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (1)

41.Prime Minister's Website (1) 42.Regaining Sri Lanka (1) 43.SCOPP (3) 44.SLPI & SLCJ (1) 45.Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF)

(1) 46.Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1) 47.Tamil National Alliance (1) 48.Tharunyata Hetak (1) 49.Tsunami (1) 50.UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1) 51.Vikalpa (1)

Their stories matterTech secondary

Thank youAll photos via Vikalpa Flickr, www.flickr.com/vikalpasl