A/HRC/29/37 C. To States 118. States should respect and, where necessary, protect the individual’s right to make a recording of a public event, including the conduct of law enforcement officials, and to “record back” an interaction in which he or she is being recorded by a State agent. 119. States should consider measures that may be taken innovatively to use ICTs to prevent violations of the right to life by its agents, particularly the excessive use of force by law enforcement officers, or in custodial settings. That could include, but is not limited to, innovations such as body-worn cameras, with due consideration given to the necessary safeguards of the right to privacy. 120. States with advanced capacity to capture satellite imagery should consider providing at least derived information to international human rights mechanisms that have such needs, if necessary, on a confidential or non-attributable basis. D. To civil society organizations and academic institutions 121. While remaining open to developments from a rapidly evolving field of technological innovation, civil society organizations should adopt an evidence-based assessment of the benefits of new ICT-enabled mechanisms. In collaboration with academics, they should concentrate resources on those areas where ICTs genuinely afford greater capacity, while maintaining the vital work they do using other, more traditional methods. Academics and human rights organizations should also collaborate to prioritize research in areas where it is needed most, for example to address the “volume challenge”. 122. Those responsible for human rights curricula and training programmes should consider including modules on the effective use of ICTs to secure human rights. Larger organizations should continue to seek to assist those with more limited digital resources. E. To donors 123. Donors should acknowledge that technological solutions to human rights problems can only be as successful as the training that accompanies them. In addition to expecting rigorous and honest appraisals of the utility and impact of new applications or devices, donors should also mainstream and support efforts to improve digital literacy and digital security awareness among those communities that most need it. F. To technology and software corporations 124. Developers should favourably consider the inclusion of an “eyewitness” or “proof” function in mainstream camera applications that gives users the option to include the metadata and establish the integrity of the file, so as to make video evidence valuable, without the need to have previously downloaded a specialized application. 125. Social media platforms should devise a process whereby user-generated content that may be of relevance to human rights investigations, but that has been removed from platforms because of community standards, can remain available to fact-finders. 23