Camera Phones as a Force For Good

With the proliferation of camera phones we have begun to get used to every aspect of our lives becoming documented, even the most embarrassing drunken exploits. Some people use them for  .. uh .. intimate moments.  One organisation is hoping to use them for a far better purpose.

picturephoning.com: Capturing Human Rights Abuse

Witness, activist and musician Peter Gabriel’s human rights organization, wants to build a Web site that documents offenses on video, reports Business Week.

“At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Gabriel and Gillian Caldwell, a documentary filmmaker who’s executive director of Witness, an organization based in New York that trains human-rights advocates to use video cameras to document abuses tried to round up corporate support for a new project: a Web site that would act as a portal for images of human rights violations that may be captured by the proliferating number of video cameras and mobile phones in the hands of people around the world.”