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Citizen Media and Online Free Speech
While the first session of the 2008 Global Voices Summit focused on how internet censorship works in Belarus, Japan, Egypt, and Pakistan, and how activists have responded to those limitations, the second session was specifically focused on how censorship affects bloggers and citizen media.
GV Summit: Day One a Success!
The first day of the Global Voices 2008 Summit in Budapest, Hungary was a wild success, as far as we can see (obviously we can't know all of the implications this early in the game). The morning started with an introduction from Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, founders of Global...
Day 1, Session 5: “NGOs and On-the-ground Activists: Defending the Voices”
Rebecca Wanjiku will be liveblogging this session:
Day 1, Session 4
Juliana Rotich will live-blog:
Alternate Coverage of the Summit
Dozens of people were blogging, twittering, and plurking away during the Summit. Here is a listing (not comprehensive) of those bloggers and mainstream media journalists that covered the event. Photos: Flickr photos tagged with: GVSummit08 News Coverage: For a complete list of mainstream media coverage of Global Voices and the...
Day 1: Session 2
Juliana Rotich will be liveblogging this session:
Photos: GV Citizen Media Summit (June 27)
Welcome to the day one of the Global Voices Citizen Summit in Budapest. Here are some of the glimpses of the day's proceedings.
Photos: GV Advocacy Meeting (June 26)
The morning session has started and in the opening remarks the co-founder of Global Voices Online Ethan Zuckerman thanked everybody who came to the summit. Sami Ben Gharbia, the Advocacy director of Global voices noted that some activists could not make the summit due to visa problems and other restrictions....
