Stories from June 28, 2008
Public Health Projects to Use Citizen Media to Empower Community Voices
Rising Voices and Open Society Institute's Health Media Initiative are happy to announce the six newest health-focused citizen media outreach projects. We received over 110 proposals from health activists and organizations based in over 50 different countries. The six selected grantees represent the most innovative applications of citizen media tools like blogs, podcasts, and online video to help further the advocacy goals of public health organizations, and to empower the communities they work with.
GV Summit- Day Two Completed!
While Day One of the Global Voices Summit focused on Advocacy, today focused more upon Global Voices proper, with information presented on the other GV projects of Rising Voices and Lingua. The day began with an introduction by Georgia Poppelwell (GV Managing Director) and Solana Larsen (GV Managing Editor), in...
Day 2, Session 5: “When the World Listens”
Session 5: “When the World Listens“ MODERATOR: Preetam Rai. SPEAKERS: Neha Viswanathan (India), Juliana Rotich (Kenya), Lova Rakotomala (Madagascar) Rebekah Heacock is liveblogging:
Video: Rebecca MacKinnon wraps up Day One
The indefatigable Paula Góes captured Rebecca MacKinnon‘s fantastic wrap-up speech at the end of yesterday's sessions and put it up on dotSUB.com to share it with the rest of the world (for the uninitiated, dotSUB.com is a site that allows you to upload videos and have them translated into virtually...
Day 2, Session 2: The Wired Electorate in Emerging Democracies
Juliana Rotich liveblogging:
Photos: GV Citizen Media Summit (June 28)
Today is an important and interesting day of the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit in Budapest. All the notable things the Global Voices Online is doing are being displayed and discussed. Here are some of the glimpses of today's proceedings:
Day 1 Session 1 Liveblog for “Web 2.0 Goes Worldwideâ€
Liveblog by Rebecca Wanjiku: