Approach
Zalab TV is an online network of participatory video workshops across (at present) four Mediterranean countries: Italy, Palestine, Spain, and Tunisia. ZaLab TV’s website provides a virtual space where workshop participants can meet, and discuss and publish their videos.
The online forum opens up an exchange of ideas and opinions across ZaLab TV hubs, linking up local knowledge and experience from different communities.
ZaLab TV hubs are free to upload works in progress, for critical review and discussion online with other hubs.
Control stays with the participants from project conception through to implementation and thereafter.
Authorship of a group of participants means control over content and freedom of expression, initiating a process of strengthened analysis and voice at a local level.
ZaLab TV bridges very different participatory video experiences from different countries, with the aim of collecting unheard stories and meeting unknown talents from beyond the wall of the digital divide.
