Interactive Web Video Player

It’s a brave new world here at LAND OF OPPORTUNITY! We’re harnessing the power of leading-edge technology to amplify the voices, stories and issues we’ve been capturing for over six years. With support from the Ford Foundation and BlackPublicMedia.org and with the help of the Mozilla Foundation, Living Docs the Center for Social Media, we’re developing an opensource interactive web video player that cues additional related multi-media content, which users can navigate, share and tailor in myriad ways. This is a dynamic curated story space designed to increase engagement and inspire action around our core urban issues: affordable housing, urban redevelopment/planning, immigration, and economic displacement. Users will access and contribute to the stories that they need to explore their own challenges in their own communities.

Footage from LAND OF OPPORTUNITY (over 1500 hours amassed in the past six years) will be supplemented with content curated by advocates, educators, data entities and other mediamakers in “sister cities”. This player and the content it houses may be used for a variety of purposes from education to advocacy. In fact, we anticipate that this player may be used for uses that we cannot even imagine now, but will be able to document as we develop and implement this experiment. The open and inclusive way we are approaching the development of the project across platforms has applications, not only for us and our partners, but for mediamakers everywhere, who are contending with the ways in which emerging media explodes and enriches story space, offering unprecedented opportunities (and challenges) to maximize reach and impact.

We need your help to get this innovative project off the ground! Check out the DEMO of the video player, then please take a moment to fill out a short SURVEY.

Please forward these links to any potential advocacy groups, educators, activists, media-makers, and generally savvy people in your network who would be willing to test the player and provide us their feedback.

If you have additional comments, or have ideas on how to use this web player as a tool/resource in your community, contact us or join our google group for further conversation online.

Again, thank you in advance for your input, it will make all the difference as we see this project develop and grow!