Engage Media

EngageMedia

URL = http://engagemedia.org/

EngageMedia is a website and a network for distributing social justice and environmental video from South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication model of traditional media.

Description

"In essence, EngageMedia is a video content management system for the web, focusing specifically on video distribution as a tool for social justice and media democracy.

In a more technical language, Garton says "One could place their videos on http://YouTube.com or the Internet Archive, but as a content developer, you can't take the YouTube back-end and add it to your own server. It's not open source. One can't create a custom application for your specific video publishing needs. You have to use YouTube itself. What we are working towards is to allow users to opt for either http://EngageMedia.org, or install the open source EngageMedia toolset(s) on their own server, customising it how they see fit. It ought to be so flexible one could literally plug in an EngageMedia video publishing module into another system, like the APC Toolkit for instance."

This system is being designed for low-bandwidth as well. "You'll be able to pop a video out there with both Flash video and bi-torent support. And as a content provider you'll have a range of licensing options to choose from. For instance, you could choose IPLeft, CreativeCommonsAustralia or CreativeCommonsThailand," he adds.

It's not a one-stop shop, but it's designed to make the process of getting your critical content out to the communities that seek it as simple as possible." (from a email distributed by BytesforAll.org)