#copresence4good

TOGETHER Camp: Landscape presentation at the #CoPresence4Good camp (by Sam Gregory) Watch an introduction to 'co-presence for good' from the Together camp at the Institute for the Future. TOGETHER Camp: Opening Presentation at the TOGETHER: A #CoPresence4Good camp organized at the Institute for the Future on September 28, 2013 looking at next-gen witnessing for human rights and social good and describing the signals and drivers of the current moment and possible futures. #copresence4good: How do visual + immersive technologies: live video, wearable computing + multi-sensory experience help include new people/optimize existing participation in activism? Can we combine the emotional power of immersion with synchronous actions + task-routing to engage + secure impact?

'Walk it, taste it, experience it' - two 'remote control' guides allow you to experience Melbourne via live video from afar.

Never heard of Fureai Kippu - it's a system of reciprocal care in Japan? Relevance? How do we think about reciprocity and what people put into the system in a co-present activism scenario? Can a mutual commitment be made around being available to others for 'co-present' support?

Social mission driven crowdsourcing and task-routing is a step in the right direction. Can these crowdsourced workforces also be used for social good - for example in Analysis tasks during co-presence activism?

Situational awareness app deveoped to deal with kettling in the UK - combined with livestreaming and co-present guidance = ?

Buffering of the audio of the ongoing 'just heard' in your life... coming to video and your Glass soon? 

Easy app to help college students reach out to a 'circle of six' for help getting home, an interruption, emergency. A simple model for a panic button app that could be modified to tap into a co-present group committed to rapid reaction.

The Venerable Loun Sovath, the Cambodian multimedia monk, films (not live) via glass-cameras for a first-person POV on his arrest during a land rights protest