Rising Voices

Participants of the fourth session of Global Voices first day of its Summit 2008, discussed the tools to help create better internet access while maintaining anonymity. The session, which carried the title “Front Line Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge,” provided hands-on information for internet users from repressive states and those with freer governments.
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Anyone who is familiar with Global Voices knows that the world is indeed talking – blogospheres from the Americas to Sub-Saharan Africa all have a lot to say – but what makes people actually listen?  The fifth and final session of Day 2 of GV’s Citizen Media Summit 2008 addressed the role of bloggers during [...]

When we went out to a bar on Friday night for a well-deserved drink here in Budapest, all my newfound friends and I could talk about were the various issues, many of them deeply moving, that came out on the first day of the summit. For someone like me attending a Global Voices summit for [...]

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 which our wonderful wonderful sponsors were [...]

Session 5: “When the World Listens“
MODERATOR: Preetam Rai.
SPEAKERS: Neha Viswanathan (India), Juliana Rotich (Kenya), Lova Rakotomala (Madagascar)
Rebekah Heacock is liveblogging:

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.

GLOBAL VOICES CITIZEN MEDIA SUMMIT 2008

Day 1 – June 27, 2008
Day 2 – June 28, 2008

Download a PDF of the Summit program here.
June 27, 2008
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast & Registration
09:30 – 10:00
Welcome & Introduction
Global Voices founders Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon kick off the Summit with director of advocacy, Sami ben Gharbia.
10:00 – 11:15
Session 1: [...]

The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008
Global Voices convenes a yearly Summit which brings together the members of the Global Voices project and its wider community with a diverse group of bloggers, technologists, journalists and other interested persons, to share information on developments in citizen media spearheaded by and of direct relevance to people outside [...]