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Tibet Heritage Fund	André Alexander
1. How is your group using video and what impacts is it having. We are documenting urban changes and our project work on video, but lack the knowledge to edit and convert our footage. We feel video is an excellent medium for three reasons: conveying situations in a powerful way (for example, urban changes); using it for vocational training (one of our fields of work); and also to show one’s work to officials, other NGOs, sponsors. We are using technology, but it’s like jumping into cold water, we need some kind of starting push (Maurice is a natural when it comes to video editing, he’ll be moonlighting for MTV soon, but we feel a bit intimidated by the thought of editing...).		See a Profile of the Tibet Heritage Foundation in 4 parts on this web site HERE Visit THF's Web Site HERE
2. What equipment is being used and how efficient / effective it is. - Camera, Computer, Editing application, conversion to CVD ? We have a Sony TRV900E digital video camera, and both Macintosh and Windows computer systems. We would prefer to do editing on Macintosh, but haven’t done very much editing so far. However we have documented significant urban changes and also a lot of traditional working and construction techniques. We’d love for someone to have a look at what we did. Regarding computers and other technologies, we have an archive of so far 5000 project-related captioned digital images, and this is still growing. we also use digital mapping technologies. Some of our digital work can be seen on our website. www.tibetheritagefund.org
3. What videos are available and in what format. Do you have a catalogue list that can be made available? We have several hours of demolition of old Lhasa and old Beijing, and some footage of building rehabilitation and restoration work in Tibet. some Lhasa footage from the mid-1990s is edited on S-VHS video (non-digital).
4. Do you: use GIS, Community Radio, Digital Photography. ? Has your organization developed a web site We have a website, www.tibetheritagefund.org we also work with digital photography, but not GIS
5. What information about video or the other technologies would be useful to put on ACHR’s web site ? a kind of do-it-yourself manual, explaining tools and techniques
6. Do you know of any useful information that you could pass on to others via the web site about the New Technologies ? we have developed a system to map communities and monitor change using Internet technologies. we are not advocating everybody should do monitoring digitally, but I think we all have seen rolled up maps and plans of urban areas and communities gathering dust in offices, resource centres etc., quite bulky to use. in a similar way, digital photography allows us to display images much more efficient that having hundreds or thousands of prints. but these are issues we would like to debate with other groups before we could actually make any recommendations.