Why Open Video?

What is Open Video and what makes it an essential part of an engaged, inclusive media sphere?  How does Open Video promote free speech, diversity, and participation?

This short piece is produced by Intelligent Television for the Open Video Alliance, a coalition of organizations and individuals devoted to creating and promoting free and open technologies, policies, and practices in online video.

Run Time: 13 minutes

Interviewees, in order of appearance:

Amy Goodman—Democracy Now; S.J. Klein—Wikimedia Foundation; Rufo Guerreschi—Telematics Freedom Foundation; Kenseth Armstead—Eyebeam Art + Technology Center; Ron Yekutiel—Kaltura; Lea Shaver—Yale Information Society Project; Nonso Ugbode—Mobile Journalism Collective; Yochai Benkler—Harvard Berkman Center; Shay David—Kaltura; Mark Surman—Mozilla; Xeni Jardin—Boing Boing; Chris Blizzard—Mozilla; Tim Hwang—Web Ecology/ROFLCon; Jonathan Zittrain—Harvard Berkman Center; Peter B. Kaufman—Intelligent Television; Adi Kamdar—Student; Jennifer Taylor—Adobe; Nina Paley—Sita Sings the Blues; Corynne McSherry—Electronic Frontier Foundation; Lizz Winstead—The Daily Show/Wake Up World