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When The World Listens: GV08 Summit Day 2, Session 5
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...
A global anti-censorship network: GV08 Summit Day One, Session One
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...
Rising Voices: Internet arrives to the community
During the first day of the Global Voices Budapest Summit 2008, many of the topics discussed had to do with the worst side of the relation between politics and the Internet. Topics such as censorship, the violation of freedom of expression rights and the lack of access were the main...
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...