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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?

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(via Melbourne Remote Control Tourist)

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

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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?

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Crowdsourcing for good Can crowdsourcing be a force for good in the world? We think so. At MobileWorks, our mission is simple: to solve the thorniest problems faced by businesses and developers while creating easy, accessible jobs for everyday people who need them, all around the world.

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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?

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London's protesters have a new tool to add to their arsenal, which is designed to help them avoid being trapped by the authorities. It's called Sukey. Sukey works by utilising the power of the crowd to automate the process of avoiding roadblocks. It comprises of a suite of applications that allow protesters to both submit and access information about which road junctions are clear and which are blocked by the authorities

Sukey apps built to help protesters avoid police kettles (Wired UK)

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

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

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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.

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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