We work with organizations (NGOs, grassroots organizations, and organized communities) and “Decentralized Archivist Communities” (DACs), worldwide, to steward and promote secure, decentralized archiving efforts to ensure their documentation is safe and accessible for the long term. This work helps them better streamline and secure their mobile-to-server archiving processes when intaking media from the field.
We collaborate with archivists, community archives, and memory workers to implement mobile media preservation workflows that safeguard smartphone-captured narratives and support secure, decentralized archiving. Our services include workshops, needs assessments, workflow development, and integrating Save to streamline media intake and enhance archival collections.
We offer tools and resources that enable people to send verified, hyperlocal media to public archives and newsrooms. At a time when public and local media are under attack, we aim to support news organizations by helping them partner directly with their constituents to create public collections of verified eyewitness accounts for use in edited stories and news broadcasts. By engaging audiences in the creation of local news, we help independent media organizations stay relevant in their communities.