OneWorldTV

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OneWorldTV

Type	Non-profit Organization
Founded	Feb 2001
Headquarters	London, UK
Industry	Internet video sharing site
Employees	4
Website	http://tv.oneworld.net

OneWorldTV is a nonprofit internet video sharing site, a part of internet portal Oneworld.net. OneWorldTV was established in 2001 to offer a better understanding of the developing world through the use of documentary film and video. OneWorldTV was one of the first video sharing sites on the internet, pioneering the concept of user generated content and citizen journalism by offering the user the ability to upload their own films and video clips directly to the site.

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The potential for giving international exposure to "grass roots" documentaries, not to mention the concept of video rebuttal, are innovations that only the Web can provide. Add the ability to compare not only differing opinions about, but also multiple perspectives of, a given issue – from first and third world, from street level activists and civilians, to teachers, film students and freelance journalists – and OneWorld might actually elevate reality TV out of the land of the oxymoron. The concept is certainly a more worthwhile venture than yet another season of Survivor.^[1]

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The website has a membership which includes video activists, NGOs, journalists and documentary filmmakers and shows examples of participatory video (PV) projects from around the world.