Global Voices on Internet Activism
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Two years ago Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca McKinnon conceived and started a project called Global Voices. The goal of the project is to capture the global conversations on the Internet from parts of the world that we don’t hear much about.
One of the interesting things that Global Voices does is translate blogs into different languages. For instance, they translate blogs from Arabic to English, and vice versa. In two years their project has grown and today they get millions of visitors from all over the world. Besides aggregating conversations, Global Voices also provides tools and advice for bloggers on how to blog safely.
Global Voices has a small team of editors who read hundreds of blogs and update the Global Voices website. They also have a group of dedicated volunteers who aggregate and provide regular round-ups from various regions of the world.
The challenge for Global Voices is to scale and maintain the interest of their bloggers and readers. And those are the areas that Global Voices is going to focus in the coming year when they morph and become a full-fledged non-profit entity.
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December 21st, 2006 at 5:53 pm
[…] You can listen to a podcast interview with Ethan Zuckerman and Georgia Popplewell of Global Voices on Podtech. In this interview Ethan Zuckerman, who is a co-founder and Georgia Popplewell, who is co-managing editor explain what is Global Voices, and also the future direction and growth of their website. […]
December 21st, 2006 at 8:22 pm
[…] Global Voices on Internet Activism | PodTech.net: Technology, Business, Media, and News Podcasts A podcast by Khamla Bhatt, an interview with Georgia Popplewell and me about Global Voices, from Delhi. And a picture proving, conclusively, that I am very, very big in comparison to our managing editors… (tags: globalvoices podcast india) […]
January 24th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
[…] Wired News Quinn Norton covered the story ‘Bloggers Shrink the Planet‘ from Delhi. And Kamla Bhatt talked to Ethan Zuckerman and Georgia Popplewell. Global Voices Online, a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, is an award-winning online portal and guide to international blogs beyond North America and Western Europe. It has also become the hub of a growing community of international bloggers who want to build a better global conversation. The Global Voices Summit, on 15 December 2006, was our annual opportunity to take stock, come together and explore our central question: How can we use the Internet to build a more democratic, participatory global discourse? How can we create a more inclusive conversation about what is happening on our planet, and how human beings in different parts of the world are impacting each other in countless ways we don’t realize every day? […]
January 25th, 2007 at 5:39 am
[…] Global Voices on Internet Activism | PodTech.net: Technology, Business, Media, and News Podcasts The interview Kamla did with Ethan and me after the first day of the Delhi Summit. (tags: podcast globalvoices podtech) […]