Global Voices

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Global Voices
Founded2004, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Type Nonprofit foundation
Focus Journalism
Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates 52°23′08″N4°50′36″E / 52.3855°N 4.8433°E / 52.3855; 4.8433
Area served
Global
Website globalvoices.org

Global Voices is an international community of writers, bloggers and digital activists that aim to translate and report on what is being said in citizen media worldwide. It is a non-profit project started at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School that grew out of an international bloggers' meeting held in December 2004. The organization was founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. In 2008, it became an independent non-profit incorporated in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Objectives

When Global Voices was formed, Its objectives were: first, to enable and empower a community of "bridge bloggers" who "can make a bridge between two languages, or two cultures." [1] Second to develop tools and resources to make achieving the first objective more effective. It has maintained a working relationship with mainstream media. Reuters, for example, gave Global Voices unrestricted grants from 2006 to 2008. [2] For its contribution to innovation in journalism, Global Voices was granted the 2006 Knight-Batten Grand Prize. [3] Global Voices was also recognized in 2009 with the University of Denver's Anvil of Freedom award for contributions to journalism and democracy. [4]

The organization stated its goals as of 2012:

Global Voices has a team of regional editors that aggregates and selects conversations from a variety of blogospheres, with a particular focus on non-Western and underrepresented voices. Contributors are volunteers. [6]

Summits

Global Voices has organized biannual summits and bloggers meetings for their virtual community to meet face-to-face. [7]

Global Voices Summits
SummitPlaceDate
Summit 2005 London, United KingdomDecember 10, 2005
Summit 2006 Delhi, IndiaDecember 16, 2006
Summit 2008 Budapest, HungaryJune 27-28, 2008
Summit 2010 Santiago, ChileMay 6-7, 2010
Summit 2012 Nairobi, KenyaJuly 2-3, 2012
Summit 2015 Cebu, PhilippinesJanuary 24-25, 2015
Summit 2017 Colombo, Sri LankaDecember 2-3, 2017
Summit 2019 Taipei, TaiwanJune 2, 2019
Summit 2024 Kathmandu, NepalDecember 6-7, 2024
Global Voices Bloggers Meetings
MeetingPlaceDate
Arab Bloggers Meeting 2008 Beirut, Lebanon2008
Arab Bloggers Meeting 2009 Beirut, LebanonDecember 7-12, 2009
Arab Bloggers Meeting 2011Tunisia2011
Arab Bloggers Meeting 2014 Amman, JordanJanuary 20-23, 2014

Notable people

References

  1. Boyd, Clark (6 April 2005). "Global voices speak through blogs". BBC News. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  2. Sweney, Mark (13 April 2006). "Reuters partners in comment blog". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  3. "J-Lab". J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  4. "Previous Anvil of Freedom Winners". Estlow International Center for Journalism & New Media. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  5. "What is Global Voices". globalvoices.org. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  6. "Global Voices · Participate". Global Voices. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  7. "Global Voices · Summits". Global Voices. Retrieved 6 February 2025.