= Cochabamba to Cancun: Maximizing Global Participation =

The CMPCC forum in Cochambamba in April 2010 was a tremendous leap forward in mobilizing a global movement around a focused set of goals.

The COP 16 in Cancun in November 2010 represents the next step in the mobilization effort.

Despite major advances in Internet and alternative media, we are still facing significant hurdles in both moblization and collaboration. The primary hurdle is that full participation requires travel to the site of the mobilization. For any movement, but particularly an environmental movement of people with few resources, this hurdle is unacceptable. We made significant progress in this regard in Cochabamba by providing a live video stream of the major events, which allowed hundreds of more people the ability to watch the proceedings. However, we still face obstacles including:

 1. Most tech and video work was cocentrated in the hands of people physically on location who were overwhelmed with logistical and other tech issues that competed with the task of distributing the proceedings and experiences outside of the event location. 
 1. Not enough people are live video streaming and those that are streaming are sending to a hodge podge of proprietary services making it difficult to share and collaborate.
 1. Not enough people who are video taping activities are following through to upload their videos to any site, much less a centralized site.
 1. Not enough people are notified about the video schedule with enough advance notice to organize screenings or otherwise plan to watch

Additionally, we expect new opportunities in Cancun that were not available in Cochamba:

 1. More protest/demostration oriented events instead of forums. These events, when provided via a live video stream, can make a significantly more emotional impact than when viewed on demand
 1. Simultaneous actions in other cities. Based on initial organizing events, we expect to see major demonstrations in other locations, providing an opportunity for us to display, live, events happening in concert from around the world.

With increasing participation in the convergences world-wide (and their increasing number) and the broadening participation from so many countries, we need to broaden and improve the number of both video creators as well as video consumers.

== Proposal ==

We propose organizing an international campaign to capture video related to Cochabamba to Cancun during the period of the COP16 conference that will provide a means for displaying simultaneous live video feeds from multiple locations, full archiving of all contributed video, and a means for easily finding and playing video on demand.

In this system:

Anyone can feed video into the live stream. The site would be capable of taking and display various streams at once and the viewer can choose which stream he or she is watching. A producer will select the stream that is the "default" at the moment.

In this way, we can stream demonstrations throughout the world in support of the Cancun actions: live and simultaneously.

At the same time, all video streamed will be archived.

Those archives will join other material in the archives section of the site: directly uploaded video, links to video on other sites, rss feeds of videos stored elsewhere. This would make this the most comprehensive video storage and display system we have ever done.

To make this happen we would need:

1 -- To develop the streaming system by writing and adapting code

2 -- To develop a recruitment, orientation and training system to develop video teams in strategic locations

3 -- To organize and spread the word about the archiving system

4 -- To develop and place a team of producers/managers to make the decisions about the site and content.