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OneWorld pioneers internet and mobile phone applications, which the world’s poorest people can use to improve their life opportunities and which help people everywhere understand global problems - and do something about them. The OneWorldTV section of the site allows registered users to upload video content on diverse topics falling under the banner of social issues and a selection of the latest week’s additions are streamed on the public face of the site. Topics covered include environment, HIV/AIDS, war and peace, trade justice and community initiatives.
A website streaming programmes from the WORLD series developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston. The programmes focus on current affairs issues from around the world, covering countries and cultures rarely seen on American television.The online archive includes programmes broadcast since May 2002. There is online documentation relating to each programme. Uses Real Player. Copies of some programmes are available for purchase on DVD/
US TV station and website (Free Speech Internet Television ) aims to show items on those aspects of world affairs that are usually marginalised by the major media outlets, using RealMedia to provide streamed audio and images. The archives are large and entire programmes (often lasting an hour) can be easily viewed.
This extensive resource offers well encoded video and audio recordings and podcasts of lectures held at the Royal Society on a broad range of scientific subjects including biology, climate science, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics and history of science. The archive is very well catalogued and organised. Many lectures are also webcast live. Lecturers include such luminaries as David Attenborough, Bill Bryson, Ben Okri and Tim Berners-Lee. RealOne and Windows Media Player required.
This London-based independent news organisation not only offers short courses on factual film-making but also supplies international video coverage to such major organisations as CNN, Channel Four, the BBC and many others. The website offers some two dozen streamed stories (requiring Windows Media Player) from around the globe, adequately encoded and lasting on average between ten and fifteen minutes each. Half a dozen full-length titles are also offered for sale on DVD. The subjects covered include famine in Ethiopia, unrest in Sierra Leone as well as the fortunes of West African migrants as well as reports from Burma, Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel and several other countries. This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 14/08/2014. This does not include access to the moving images.
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