Basic Income MediaBites is a collaborative project developed at the 3rd US Basic Income Create-A-Thon in New Orleans, Louisiana.

There are many, many publicly available videos about basic income. Through a collaborative effort, we identified some of the best passages to make available to others to expand awareness about basic income. Our aim was to create the beginning of an extensive database of sound bites and images which can be shared on social media or incorporated into new videos or other projects.

The sound bites are drawn from lectures, discussions, interviews, and other videos on basic income and related topics – many of which can be found here – and the images are based upon short quotes from the sound bites.

Anyone is welcome to not only use the database as a resource but also to contribute to its content. To contribute a new sound bite, simply add a timestamped link in the first column, record the start and end points of the relevant clip, and write a brief description. To contribute an image based on a new or existing sound bite, convert an inspiring quote into an image (we recommend Quotes Cover as an easy and free way to do this), and add a link to your image in the final column (we recommend uploading to Imgur).

In the future, perhaps there will be a contest for the best new video based upon the sound bites in this database, once the database is large enough to prove a valuable time-saving tool in the creation of such videos.

Team members: Kate McFarland, Scott Santens, and Karl Widerquist

