OpenWatch Project
= global Sousveillance project of authority figures
URL = http://www.openwatch.net/
Description
"OpenWatch is a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures...The surveillance state has arrived and it is here to stay. The benefit to society in terms of security and justice is too great for it to ever go away. There is a problem, however, and the problem is not the technology. The problem is the lopsided distribution of who is in control of that technology. Surveillance technology is currently only in the hands of those who are already in power, which means it cannot be used to combat the largest problem facing modern society: abuse of power." (http://africaunchained.blogspot.com/2011/06/openwatch-for-counter-surveillance.html)
More Information
- video: http://vimeo.com/24250307