The recent uprisings in some Arab states have highlighted the power of media and the human quest for media freedom.
The recent uprisings in some Arab states have highlighted the power of media and the human quest for media freedom, as well as underlining the fact that social inequalities will indefinitely search for equilibrium, in order to address those inequalities.
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Yvette Alberdingk Thijm is the Executive Director of WITNESS. She envisions a world where the millions of people turning to video today become human rights defenders and where collaboration between media, technology and human rights creates an ecosystem for social change.
There were panels on every subject you can imagine: human rights, social media, entrepreneurship, singularity, science, politics, Internet trends, eCommerce , independent movies, and more.
One obvious lesson from the ongoing affair is that companies need to be able to react fast, Christian Gladwell, founder of social media specialist Human Digital, told Spanier.
Meanwhile, Sudanese officials have been quoted by various media and human rights groups as announcing outright that the country's newfound oil wealth will go toward beefing up its military.
As an entrepreneurial nonprofit that operates at the intersection of media, human rights, and technology, we have learned to adapt quickly when opportunities surface because of new technology or advances in digital-media literacy.
The latter was comprised of representatives of a number of British and American law enforcement organizations, politicians, representatives of major British, European and American print and electronic media, human rights activists, academic experts and concerned citizens.
He has put together a committee of 35 advisors, including John Henry Clippinger, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, Microsoft researcher Mary Czerwinski, and Jon Hall of the United Nations Development Project.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A disgraced South Korean scientist -- who gained fame in 2004 when he claimed to have cloned human embryonic stem cells -- on Monday was convicted of embezzling money and illegally buying human eggs, state media reported.
Using social media interfaces, any human is capable of having intelligent, bi-directional conversations with social media enabled networks, systems, or applications.
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And it's striking that the most media-observed figure in human history, the Princess of Wales, chose for her most daring and decisive media act a long, formal interview with Panorama, which 20 million people watched.
Apple has introduced the products that have fundamentally changed human behavior and attitude toward media consumption and creation as well as technology generally.
President Chavez and his supporters have used their powers in a wide range of cases involving the judiciary, the media, and human rights defenders.
The Conference also discussed the role of public service broadcasting in relation to both freedom of the press and the use of media to promote human development and poverty alleviation.
Not the least of which is that each of these acquisitions span various industries with calculated levels of expertise including data analytics, clinical trial, human resources and even social media.
The Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) and Human Resources Outsourcing (HRO) media markets are the result.
Hwang was convicted in 2009 of embezzling money and illegally buying human eggs, according to state media.
The vicar of the Whitby church which features in Bram Stoker's Dracula says a landslide which exposed human bones has attracted the international media.
The end goal is to provide natural human control over TV-based media consumption, said Berenson, who's working to get cameras in TVs themselves sometime late next year.
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The IMM team met with a broad range of stakeholders, such as Prime Minister Bhattarai, political party leaders, human rights bodies, donors, media and civil society organizations.
But a total reorganization isn't necessary, according to Waber's research, which first began in 2006 when he was a doctoral student at MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics Laboratory.
Although American officials these days do not seem to press the Saudis very hard to become democratic or to uphold human rights, America's media and its rights lobbies are relentlessly critical.
These statistics highlight the relevance of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, and its specific goal of mobilizing the UN family of agencies as well as other stakeholders including UN Member States, regional human rights bodies, NGO and media houses to collaborate in creating a safer environment for journalists.
In an email, Wutz told me that both human embryonic and induced pluripotent cell culture media and conditions are being developed, but they are not optimal at present.
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That and other media reports led to a gripping human interest story of determination.
But it also gives the chance to explain how Edward Morel and Roger Casement launched what was, in effect, the first international human-rights campaign, using the mass media to bring an unstoppable torrent of public criticism to bear on the Belgian authorities.
Some of the solutions are disseminated through a recently launched six-part, documentary-style DVD series on human flourishing, and an active presence in social media (approaching 1 million likes on Facebook).
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Some of the contents of the e-mail were first claimed in a column written by Brown's lawyer, Andy Lester, in the conservative weekly publication Human Events, and subsequently picked up by news media, but until now, the existence of a written record memorializing those claims have been unreported.
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