Editorial Team

This toolkit was compiled with the inputs of an editorial team made up of practitioners working with audio and video around the world. The editorial team members are :

Andrew Lowenthal (edition editor) is a media activist based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been involved in participatory and social justice media initiatives since 1998. An editor, media maker and organiser within the Indymedia network since 2001 he currently producers a weekly Indymedia radio show/podcast for local community radio station 3CR. He also co-produces the Oceania Indymedia Newsreal, a compilation of videos from South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific that is distributed online and also on VCD.

His current key project is developing EngageMedia, an online video distribution content management system and website focussed on social and environmental issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. EngageMedia are currently coordinating Transmission, a global meeting of social justice online video distribution projects.

Occasionally Andrew even gets to make videos, his last one about the Italian micro TV movement screened at the National Gallery of Indonesia.

Felipe Fonseca is member of the MetaReciclagem network which develops actions aiming at the re-appropriation of technology for social change, based upon the ideas of free knowledge and free and open source software. He's also a consultant to the brasilian Ministry of Culture on the "cultural hotspots" project, that is creating 600 multimedia production centers using multimedia f(l)oss.

Nenad Romic (aka Marcell Mars) is one of the founders of Multimedia institute - mi2 + net.culture club mam in Zagreb. He initiated several projects like EGOBOO.bits - GNU GPL publishing label, TamTam online colaborative platform and ngode accounting software for NGOs. He produced or/and curated mi2 annual exhibitions "I'm still alive" 2001., 2002 and "Freedom to Creativity" festival of free culture in 2005.. He is one of the founders/coordinators of Otokultivataor - summer camp, mi2lab, advocate of free software, system/network admin & advanced Linux user.

Curently works on editing the GNU Pauk reader dealing with free software phenomenon within the larger cultural context and System.hack() conceptual exhibition on the issue of hacking in broader sense then just hacking in digits. System.hack() explores which are the Systems which could be hacked.

http://www.mi2.hr http://www.egoboobits.net http://www.otokultivator.org
http://tamtam.mi2.hr/TamTamDev http://www.mi2.hr/alive http://re.mi2.hr
http://www.gnupauk.org http://www.systemhack.org

Pixel is a brazilian visual jockey (VJ) and multimedia free open source software (FOSS) researcher. He started VJing in 2002, one year later he started to make performances using FOSS, becaming the first VJ in the country presenting with this kind of software. In 2005 he worked as multimedia researcher and as a local coordinator of the Digital Culture project, from the Ministry of Culture. At the moment Pixel is researching multimedia for EstudioLivre, integrating the MetaReciclagem and Media Sana collectives, and part of the LiVES team.
http://www.vjpixel.net.

Adam Hyde was born in New Zealand and is permanently transient. He is a consultant, developer and artist working at the convergence of broadcasting and Internet
technologies.

Adam has a background in television and radio in New Zealand, where he founded the b.net radio network and Static Television, New Zealand's first community television station. He relocated in Europe in 1999, and worked as a producer and manager at the internet service provider, XS4ALL in Amsterdam between 1999 - 2003. Whilst in Amsterdam, he co-founded HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo, which assisted independent media in the former Yugoslavia. He was also the initiator of Net.Congestion: the International Festival of Streaming Media, held in Amsterdam in October 2000, and a co-founder of the Open Source Streaming Alliance, an initiative that has established several internationally distributed, streaming media servers for arts and cultural use.

Adam is one of the co-founders of r a d i o q u a l i a, an artistic collaboration with Honor Harger.

Adam is also a writer for the Free Software Magazine
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/.
adam@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam/

Vedran Vucic has been working with Linux since 1995 whilst the Internet program coordinator at the Fund For An Open Society. There he established Internet
connections during OUN sanctions for humanitarian organisations. He works as composer for theatre and contemporary dance performances and has published works on artificial life and artificial intelligence in arts. He is currently president of the board of the Linux center, an NGO that supports other NGOs, schools and journalists in using free software, currently involved in localizing GNU/Linux into Romani. In addition, he is becoing more involved in various open hardware initiatives and developing approaches to how NGOs may contribute to a countrieseconomic growth.

Sam Gregory is a human rights activist, advocacy trainer, and video
producer, and since 2000 has been the Program Manager at WITNESS which supports human rights groups to incorporate video into their advocacy. In 2005 he was the lead editor on Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press). He has worked in collaboration with human rights groups in the Philippines, Guatemala, Argentina, Thailand/Burma, and the US, supporting international advocacy and outreach campaigns, and has led a range of international human rights training workshops. Sam currently focuses on WITNESS' training initiatives, and on work in Asia. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University, where his Master's focused on international development and media. He has worked as a television researcher/producer in both the US and UK, and for development organizations in Nepal and Vietnam.

Evan Henshaw-Plath is a technologist and activist who currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been involved with the Indymedia media activist network setting up media labs, developing participatory open publishing software, sms, voice / voip telephony systems, podcasting systems, calendaring applications via protest.net, and related activities. His work has been focused in Europe, North and South America. He is currently working as the lead engineer of Odeo a podcasting and open standards telephony startup based in San Francisco.

Elizabeth Araujo has a background in Communication Studies and joined WomensNet (a Johannesburg-based NGO) as an overseas intern in June 2001. Currently, her position is partly funded by CUSO, an international development agency based in Canada, as part of a co operant programme. She has been working at WomensNet astheir training coordinator for the past 4 years. Prior to South Africa, Elizabeth worked and lived in Mexico and Portugal. She is also currently pursuing a masters degree in Public & Development Management at Witwatersrand University.

Cristiano Scabello has worked with music and free software since 2004. He collaborates with Estudio Livre researching and documenting processes of media production and independent comunication on the web. He also collaborates with the Brazilian Ministry of Culture on the Living Culture project as coordinator of the multimedia team of Cultura Digital promoting digital autonomy amongst Pontos de Cultura all around Brasil.

With support from Tactical Technology Collective staff:

• Stephanie Hankey - Tactical Tech co-founder
• Michal Mach - product manager
• Allan Stanley - production assistant

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