An International Online Video Project
In my role at the British Council, I managed the launch of the “Generation 9/11” video series to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The British Council is an international organization that aims to build cross-cultural understanding, so the series was an opportunity to invite young people from around the world to reflect on how that day’s events impacted their worldview.
We started with user-generated content, lightly edited by a member of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020, one of the programs involved in the project. The series received international press coverage during the week marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11:
Dawn.com, Pakistan’s largest English-language news site, featured the videos on its homepage
An op-ed by the British Council’s USA director (that I ghost-wrote) was featured on the Huffington Post homepage
Global Voices wrote about the series
Odyssey Networks featured the videos