human rights memory description (2015)
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Human Rights Memory Warehouse
“Knowing the Human Right´s Memory is knowing our History”
Resume of the Project for the Construction of the
Platform of Memory
Human Rights Memory, was created in Bogotá, Colombia in the year 2014, engaged
with the promotion and construction of a “platform of the Memory on manners of the
Promotion of Human Rights”, for the region of South America and Mexico. This
integrates the usage of leading technologies as: social media, website, mobile apps
and content from objects with smart codes (QR Codes and Augmented Reality Codes
AR) between other tools, to approach the public and particularly the present and future
generations.
For a quick view of the Platform of Human Rights Memory, the aspects have been
summarized in the following outputs(C).
C1) Cases of our Human Right´s History
C2) Communities for peace and progress
C3) Technological Tool´s Usage for involving society and increasing access of the public
LINKS FOR PRESENTATION ON VIDEO:
Youtube Video of Project Presentation (4 min; 2014) http://goo.gl/QPZiJF Youtube Video of Initiative Presentation (9 min; 2012) http://goo.gl/KES6Ru
C1) Cases of our Human Rights History Description:
Create and promote spaces of Memory within a platform that contains information of the cases in
manners of Human Rights violations focused in South America and México, with the main objective
of paying tribute to the victims of these regrettable events. The set of “cases” is going to be worked
according to the order shown in the Operative Work Plans (POTs). The informatics’ contents of each of the
“cases” and of the respective victims, are going to be the result of a joint work for memory construction
jointly together with the victims (if alive), and/or family members and/or other related to the advents. The
team of Human Rights Memory is committed on identifying, contact and invite the affected ones to
participate on the project. Initially it is going to be presented with the usage of the technologies of smart
codes and augmented reality on common use objects, in order to motivate the informatics
competences and exemplify the usage of these leading technologies with benefits as a sustainable content
of historic memory and to ease the generational transmission of this, looking to raise awareness and the
non repetition of the events and to promote social sensitization. The application of this technology will
illustrate scenarios of the real world, virtually through multimedia contents on the platform and with
interaction that will help in the preservation of the Memory, the diffusion and the construction of content of
our History.
The Access to the information of a “case” of the set can be done through the access by the website
(www.humanrightsmemory.org) or directed from the scanning of an smart code installed in signals in
places related to the events, or in printed material for commemorative campaigns or activities for bringing
memory, or directed contents form objects with augmented reality codes displaying information from the
platform. The public will have the option as well to acquire through our main website, objects of common
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usage as mugs, glass-holders, workbooks, handles or other with image – codes of augmented reality that
will take display information about each specific case.
The information on the codes will be available in several languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English,
French, German and Italian), and each “case” will consist of several sections of multimedia formats and
other technological tools that promote the knowledge of the events. These sections of information consist
of: Description of the events on audio and text format; promotional video teaser that explains generally the
events and that at the same time, promotes a more detailed video of the information of the occurrences
using animated art and as a full documentary with cases-chapters, available on paid download websites
and platforms as iTunes, Amazon, Netflix; Spaces for the Memory with the biographies of the victims
constructed on the joint work with victims (if alive) and/or family members or directly affected ones from the
events; Billboards of promotion of events and commemoration activities of the cases and/or in manners of
Human Right´s promotion; Interactive Maps on Google Maps with other allocation of other related places
and other memory spots; section for research with search engines, under specialized and specific filters as
art, memory, legal information, etc.
The process of construction of Memory and the diffusion of these contents is done following the order of
an annual or six month plan according to the POT as a set of cases to develop for an specific country.
Currently when the access is done through the main website, the process of surfing within the information
is being adjusted with interactive maps, search engines and results from lists of cases according to search
engine results in order to provide a more dynamic and easier way in the loading of the information and the
development of the cases of an specific POT. The access to the case can be done through the main
website; QR codes on objects or memory spots (squared codes as the bar codes which direct the user to
specific hyperlinks in the platform); and Augmented Reality (image – codes that display multimedia
information combining interactively multimedia elements with the screen displayed by the cameras on
smart phones, tablets and other devices.)
DESCRIPTION
- Access through the main website ( www.humanrightsmemory.org )
Acces C1
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- Example of signal with QR Code on places Related to the Events
- Example of a Main Page of a Case
CONTENTS ON MAIN PAGE OF A CASE (POT)
Within the buttons at the left we can find: Video Teaser with the general information of the
events and that promotes more deep information from the chapter of the documentary,
available on Netflix and other streaming paid platforms for getting the contents; Audio file
about the main information of the event and as well information on text format.
The button of “Remembering the Victims or Recordando las Victimas” which is for the spaces
for the Memory of the victims with contents derived from the joint work construction done with
the victims and directly affected ones.
Places Related to the Events which are interactive maps on Google Maps of places related to
the facts, campaigns for Human Rights Promotion and other Memory Spots.
The main page of a case is going to be the specific Landing Page and the specific destiny of the
scanning of a code in signal of a case and/or commemorating physical material of the events, as
image – codes once scanned will display the information of the case, or for other codes of objects
Signal installed on a
related place of an
specific event
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they will direct to the memory profile of a victim. These last ones are not offered to the public
through our website and are explained subsequently on this document (OAR2)
The documentary consists of 15 minutes videos about each case of a POT where the
information is exposed more detailed with contents derived from interviews with the directly
affected ones and in the reconstruction of Memory with the illustration of the augmented
reality and animated arts. Each chapter will be available on CDs, paid download platforms,
Amazon, iTunes (Apple TV) and Netflix.
The section of “Lessons to Society” (at the bottom right) contains initiatives for the Memory
coming from members of the Society, activities and artistic works for Memory. This section is
developed through the diffusion of works produced by the team of Human Rights Memory
and in some cases, as alliances or calls and tenders to society for construction of artistic
multimedia contents for the Memory rewarded with incentives as prices funded through
donations and Crowdfunding campaigns.
Augmented Reality Objects to invite for a joint Memory Construction to Victims and
Directly Affected Ones:
Not available for purchase online. (OAR2)
- Mug with AR Code that shows the Video Trailer of the Documentary Chapter of the Palace
of Justice Siege, Bogota 2014. This can be purchased Online
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WORKPLAN - COLOMBIA 2015 (POT)
Responsable: POT Director.
C2) Communities for Peace and Progress Description
This output consists of a section in the main website where information is digitalized and evolves on
interactive maps with of the Memory, constructed and fed by the same members of communities affected
by the scourge of violence and armed conflict in Colombia and then to be replicated in other countries of
the Region. This is a process of memory construction in which the contents are presented in interactive
maps with sections divisions where the content feed, appearance and characteristics are result of the
execution of initiatives for the construction of memory through campaigns inviting the members of the
communities to compile history and construct their own memory, considering the low indexes of access
and usage of technologies in the affected regions promoting and approaching the platform as a channel to
start to built their own historical memory. These campaigns are organized under categories as memory
construction, requests from the affected ones (re-directed to entities and organizations on charge of these
fields) and the call for compilation for art for the memory. This is mainly focused on extending the call to
the next generations in order that teenagers and kids participate and get ownership about their own history
and on the process of generational transmission of historic memory.
The execution of the work on the Regions is defined on Work Plans for the Affected Communities (POCM)
and the work consists of several steps that start with a in-situ visit where we develop a workshop for the
presentation of the Human Rights Memory Platform, about scientific content of the importance of
constructing Memory, the generational transmission of memory and about commemorative events; this is
followed by the travel within the cities, municipalities and/or town hills for sharing experiences with the
victims, communicators and institutions for the representation of the victims; allowing that the compilation
of multimedia material will impulse to an initiative of memory construction, and the execution of a joint work
between all of the stakeholders, and by this, proceed to open the call to society to participate in the
memory construction. The order of the Work Plan shown on the POCM is flexible according to the
availability that the Local, National and International Institutions provide.
It has to be highlighted that considering the low access and usage of technologies on the affected zones, it
is recognized and promoted a response to the need of taking actions that raise awareness to the same
members of the communities of the importance of the Memory. “Building memory is an act that must take
action and Memory construction is a process and it is not just digitalizing and displaying contents on a
screen that will not derive in any effect to society”. Human Rights Memory, develops a process in which
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the main participant is the society and the work involves the usage of technologies and the usage of
virtual space on our platform for the creation and the reception of the memory spaces of the own history.
Then the call is delivered jointly together with other strategic allies (Public Institutions, Victims
representations, communicators and Human Rights Organizations). This call for the Memory
construction, the participation and the social integration, invites the members of a community to
participate, share and diffuse contents for the promotion of the campaign, in which through physical ballot
boxes, placed on strategic places, we give the option to compile information of all of the sectors looking to
take actions in the field of memory generation.
These open calls have the objective of teaching to present and future generations (teenagers and kids)
that through the compilation of written material: texts, drawings and other artistic languages, the memory
can be used to promote peace and development to the region. There are also some other categories for
the society as the compilation of literary and artistic works for the memory construction of the victims
and/or addressing the request of the affected ones in manners of general inquiries looking for psychosocial
and legal support, in these cases, it is a extended effort with the group of stakeholders, defining specific
deadlines for the promotion of the call for participation, the installation, openings, and the conclusion of the
calls for compiling memory. The next step consists in the training to the communicators that will manage
the section of the region, the compilation and digitalization of the information, image and appearance
adjustments to the platform, redirections of the requests done by society and to publish the contents. A
mid- term goal is being evaluated of each 2 years or after at least 3 calls for memory construction, have
enough information to organize a produce a physical book and eBook that promotes the collective work in
the memory construction, from the same members of the communities to be delivered to the youngest
generations with the reception of the own History as educational and informative contents and material
that will be delivered to the respective Cultural and Educational Centers on the Region.
These initiatives have shown results from visits to zones affected by the armed conflict, where workshops
have been done, presenting the platform, in manners of Memory and generational transmission, first with
the compilation of contents and the exchange of experiences with the victims and communicators, followed
by the creation of a base material to built the structure of the initiatives for the open call, the processes of
alliance with the other stakeholders, and the training of the members involved, reaching a dynamic and
ownership of the platform and of the information that show the good usage of technologies by the same
members of the communities.
This component was structured and has been in practice from the experience with the field trip (Bajo
Magdalena, Colombia with the Program “Programa Nuevas Tierras de Paz”, of the Corporación Paz y
Desarrollo del Bajo Magdalena, the Departamento de Prosperidad social (DPS) and the European Unión)
that took place at the beginnings of the month of September 2014. This methodology is going to be
replicated on the workshops of Memory construction of subsequent zones on the plans, transmitting the
application of these through the (POCM). The promotion of this output, visit and the participation to the
section on the platform is going to be done through videos adjusted on AR codes on handicraft articles
(OARs4) that will display video trailers about the work done by Human Rights Memory on the specific
affected region. After the video, the device will be redirected to the map-section on the main website that is
going to be available as Communities for Peace and Progress within the platform.
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EXAMPLE
Access through the main website ( www.humanrightsmemory.org )
Access on Communities for Pace and Progress
Access
Active Region: Bajo Magdalena
(Under Construction).
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The maps that were used are just an example. The real material that is going to be used is on
waiting status since the initiative on Bajo Magdalena is going to be for the first trimester 2015.
Example of Map accessing through the Link Memory of the Communities
Example Santa Cruz de Mompox.
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How the Platform loads information
Work Plan for Memory Construction on Communities Affected - POCM (Annually)
Responsable: Director for Construction of Memory for Peace and Progress on Communities
Affected.
C3) Technological Tool´s Usage for involving society and increasing
access of the public
Description
It is highlighted that from the two first outputs, the main beneficiaries of the Memory construction are the
victims, affected and other involved ones on the Human Rights Promotion. The third Output is focused on
involving a more general public and to increase the participation of them within the platform using the tools
described next:
H1 Memory Promotion with Augmented Reality Objects (I)
The access, affiliation and link of the public with the Platform is done through continuous innovation and
development of the usage of technological tools. For the objects with smart codes it is going to be divided
in these categories:
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OAR1 Presentation of the project for Donors or Crowdfunding
OAR2 Objects for the Presentation and invitation to a Joint Memory Construction to Victims and
Affected ones.
OAR3 Mugs of cases that are part of our History on Human Rights. It directs the visitor to the main
page of specific case. In Section: “Cases of our History on Human Rights” (Output 1). These can
be purchased through Crowdfunding that look for obtaining resources for the development of
more cases / POTs.
OAR4 Handicraft Items with AR codes for the promotion and direct the public to the Memory of the
Communities for Peace and Progress (Output 2 ). These can be purchased through Crowdfunding
campaigns and the incomes used for developments of POCMs/ Construction of Memory on a
Region.
The public on the website can donate, contribute or make online payments through technologies
as Paypal, shopping carts, donations and the corresponding certification for the contributions.
After the development of the platform we are going the execute Crowdfunding campaigns
(contributions of a Community for an specific amount in a specific time frame, with retribution of
product when the budget is obtained) according to the Strategic Resources Campaigns where the
retributions will be OAR3s or OAR4s according to the objective. Some of these are going to be
used as well for calls and appeals for tenders with rewarded incentives to artists in manners of the
production of artistic works for the Memory and/or to execute proposals to develop new Work
Plans POTs/POCMs.
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Responsable: Sub director of the Project
H2) MOBILE APPS: (Available for Android, Apple, Facebook App and through
web browsers)
The app has sections of information, integration and it addresses to the first two outputs of the
platform. Even though it is focused mainly in the strategy of involving more public through:
a) App Section of Synchronized Trivia Tests “Knowledge about History? Multiplatform Trivia
Tests that can share information between social media as Facebook, available on the
Google Play Market and Appstore. This is done with means to strengthen the knowledge of
the history and involve society in an interactive way on matching entertainment and
educational spaces providing interactivity and that brings as result visits and positioning
of the platform.
Responsable: General Researcher of the Project
Promo Video “Do you know about History?”
b) Section with Billboard of Events for Memory and Human Rights: Promotion of events and
activities for the respect and promotion of Human Rights, as the promotion of multimedia
contents, documentaries, radio programs, webinars, blogs, debates, artistic works and
initiatives of organizations and individuals.
Responsable: Technology and Content Manager
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OTHER SECTIONS OF INFORMATION
With the platform there are going to be as well publications of updated news
of the cases and activities for the Memory and the usage of art for the
promotion of the memory, shared through several parts of the platform as
social media, research sections, etc.
Research sections will include specialized search engines within the main
website with specialized filters in manners of Memory and artistic Works for
the promotion of human rights.
Contact Forms directed according to categories and subjects.
Linkage of services with other victims involved in the labor of psychosocial and
legal support.
Strategic community management on social media as Facebook, twitter y
Youtube.
Responsable: Investigation of Memory, Events and artistic works.
If you are interested on getting in contact to support this cause check our methodologies for
obtaining resources as donations, crowdfunding, etc. Please contact:
Juan Francisco Lanao Anzola
General Director
(+57)3102381514
www.humanrightsmemory.org