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Live Blog: GV Advocacy Meeting (June 26)
A group of the leading online free speech activists from around the world have been invited to a closed meeting in advance of the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit by Global Voices Advocacy. The topic of discussion is how to work together towards a global anti-censorship movement. Renata Avila from...
Citizen Media and Online Free Speech
The innate structure of the Internet is free: a series of personal computers, servers, and routers that produce data and transmit it around the world in seconds based on a simple series of universal protocols. It took human intervention to cage the Internet. For the second session of the Global...
Announcing reduced registration fees!
We've been working with our event partners in Hungary to have the registration fees for the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 reduced to a rate that would be more accessible to greater numbers of people. We're delighted to announce that we've succeeded -- registration fees for the Summit have been slashed from €210 (approx US$323) to US$152 for both Summit days (June 27 and 28), including lunch and refreshments, for those registering before June 25.
When the World Listens
At Global Voices Online, we have been following blogs and other social platforms for some time now. Increasingly, we are encountering netizens rallying together and successfully hightlighting issues, political crisis or a natural disaster around them to a wider audience. In this last session of the summit, we invite you...
Translation and the Multilingual Web
Projects like Yeeyan, Interlocals.net, Gyaku, Cucumis, Avaaz, Wikipedia and of course Global Voices are models of human translation with online cooperation, while there are also numerous tools offered by online services which can make the work more effortless. In the fourth session of day two, the summit will be focusing on the translation within citizen media: how to translate various languages in complex international contexts? what are the limits? and how we can go beyond those limits?
Defending free speech online
The first day of the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit will feature several panels on matters relating to censorship and online freedom of speech. It will be devoted to discuss the challenges facing freedom of expression and debate the state of censorship and anti-censorship efforts in the world. We strongly...
Spreading the word, by all means
Only a little over one month to go before the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 and we are encouraging everyone to spread the news, invite their, friends, colleagues, and favorite bloggers. Budapest, is a long way to travel for some. But perhaps this interactive comic strip can help entice...
Web 2.0 Goes Worldwide
During the first session of day two, five representatives from Rising Voices will present their experiences - either as trainers or trainees - in citizen media outreach projects in Colombia, Bolivia, Madagascar, and Kenya. They are all working to extend the conversation taking place online via blogs, podcasts, and video- and photo-sharing sites to communities that have traditionally been ignored by both mainstream and new media.
Join us on Twitter and Facebook
Are you a Facebooker? A member of the Twitterati? Come join in the conversation at the Global Voices Summit 2008 Facebook group, and follow our updates on Twitter.
We have liftoff…
At long last, the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 web site is live! At present the site features background information on Global Voices and the goals of the meeting, our terrific program of events, registration details, and information about the charming city of Budapest, including a list of blogs...
