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March 20th, 2007

Global Voices en Français Celebrates Journée Mondiale de la Francophonie

Alice Backer · 07:25

lingua → fr

Today is Francophonia Day. About 50 French-speaking countries and territories, some belonging to the Organisation Mondiale de la Francophonie and others not, will reflect on what it means to have French as a language --often alongside others. (Not to worry we will tell you what the bloggers said as soon ... 4 comments · »»

December 24th, 2006

A New Shuffle to the Mix- A More Personal Account of the 2006 Global Voices Summit

Deborah Ann Dilley · 13:15

Hello Dear Readers, I have been charged with giving an account of the 2006 Global Voices Summit in New Delhi that took place last week. If you would like to read the transcripts, please see the conference blog, and of course, there have been various summaries posted ... 1 comment · »»

December 23rd, 2006

GV Summit Delhi ‘06 Session Two: Outreach

Jennifer Brea · 05:18

At the Saturday meeting of last weekend's second annual summit, Global Voices' South Asia editor, Neha Viswanathan, facilitated a discussion about outreach: who is blogging, why some communities aren't blogging and how to make sure that blogospheres represent all voices. (Photo by Jace) The session focused on how to mitigate barriers to ... 3 comments · »»

December 19th, 2006

Delhi Summit Reflections: We ARE the People of the Year.

Rebecca MacKinnon · 08:59

As global voices editors, authors, community members, and allies convened our second annual summit in Delhi this weekend, TIME magazine dedicated its "person of the year" to YOU: people around the world who are taking media creation into their own hands. (Photo by Jace. Click to enlarge.) The TIME article praises the ... 4 comments · »»

December 18th, 2006

GV Summit Delhi ‘06 Session Four: Tools and Technology

Sameer Padania · 16:24

The room is alive with post-coffee buzz, as this session, led by Salam Adil and Preetam Rai, tries to get under the skin of the tools and technology that would broaden out the range of people writing and reading blogs worldwide. In Salam’s twist on GV’s tagline, The world is ... 3 comments · »»

December 17th, 2006

GV Summit Delhi ‘06 Session Three: Language and Translation

Ethan Zuckerman · 06:37

David Sasaki has put together a remarkable session on translation at the Global Voices conference. It begins with a conversation led by John "Feng 37" Kennedy in Chinese between the half dozen Chinese speakers in the room, then a five-person conversation in Swahili, led by Ndesanjo Macha, then a lively ... 6 comments · »»

December 16th, 2006

GV Summit Delhi ‘06 Session One: GV's Past, Present, & Future

Nathan Hamm · 03:12

In the first session of the Global Voices '06 summit, co-founders Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman looked back at where Global Voices has been and forward to where it is going. Where We've Been Global Voices Online was born out of a meeting of a small group of bloggers from around the ... 2 comments · »»

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January 4th, 2007

Tunisian blogger Sami Ben Gharbia on the Global Voices summit recently held in Delhi, India (Fr): “A will to build a francophone version of Global Voices and to spread the Global Voices China experiment was expressed. The first objective consists in translating in French what is written in English on GV … That initiative, approved by the two co-founders of GV, Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca McKinnon was proposed by Alice Backer, Jennifer Brea and myself. We hope to have an independent space soon, something along the lines of francophonie.globalvoices.org …”