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Global voices: The world is talking, are you listening?
Global Voices Online is a group blog that was initiated by a couple of research fellows at the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, a think-tank at Harvard Law School. Countries or regions are represented by various bloggers, who provide a weekly summary of what people are talking about in their part of the world.
Their aim?
At a time when the international English-language media ignores many things that are important to large numbers of the world’s citizens, Global Voices aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens’ media. We’re using a wide variety of technologies - weblogs, wikis, podcasts, tags, aggregators and online chats - to call attention to conversations and points of view that we hope will help shed new light on the nature of our inter-connected world.
1) To call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens’ media around the world by linking to text, audio, and video blogs and other forms of grassroots citizens’ media being produced by people around the world.
2) To facilitate the emergence of new citizens’ voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves.
3) To advocate for freedom of expression around the world and to protect the rights of citizen journalists to report on events and opinions without fear of censorship or persecution.
Pretty interesting!
Posted on November 1, 2005
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