Pure Digital Technologies has announced at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting today that they plan on giving away 1 million of their ultracompact Flip videocameras to non-profits and NGOs around the world to assist their work. “We believe video can help change the world,”
said Jonathan Kaplan, Chairperson and CEO of Pure Digital Technologies in their press release.
“Non-profit organizations do incredible everyday work that the public
rarely sees. Imagine the impact that video would make if every
on-the-ground staff member or volunteer had both a camcorder and the
ability to broadcast their message to the world.”
Sounds like a really incredible offer that I hope gets implemented soon. It would be great if the human rights video project WITNESS could get a few thousand of these over to human rights observers and defenders that they work with. And I could see my friends at Global Kids using these to teach video production to kids in the inner city. Really there are a 1,001 cool ideas for how these dead simple video cameras might help various NGO and non-profit missions.
I was already planning on getting the sweet Flip Ultra, but now I have another reason to give them my businesss.
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