GlobalVoices

On last July, I got an email from Solana Larsen of GlobalVoicesOnline announcing a collaboration with a Danish Aid Organization: she was asking for someone interested to mentor a Danish or African blogging student participating on a course about using socialmedia for activism. The course is started on 7th, September and the mentor team...
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Do you know Global Voices Online Advocacy? It’s one of the non profit projects affiliated to GlobalVoices Online, devote to sustain freedom of speech against censorship around the world. You can also follow them through Twitter – Advox. Global Voices Advocacy keeps track of online censorship worldwide in daily posts, and maintains a map...
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April 23 is UNESCO World Book Day – and just because the Global Voices team loves blogs, doesn’t mean we have forgotten other forms of the written word! In fact, because we think reading literature is such an enjoyable way to learn about another culture, we have a fun challenge for all Global Voices...
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This post was written by Bernardo Parrella and co-authored by me. UPDATE: Eluana Englaro died few hours after this post was written. A legal battle over a young woman’s ‘right to die’ after 17 years in a coma has spurred both vast online commentary and activism in Italy. Mostly in defense of “Eluana Englaro’s...
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From the press release: Al Jazeera will release its exclusive Arabic and English coverage produced by the Network’s correspondents and crews in the Gaza Strip online at http://cc.aljazeera.net . The ongoing war and crisis in Gaza, together with the scarcity of news footage available, make the repository a key resource for anyone producing content...
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Just published on GlobalVoicesOnline an interview to Vittorio Arrigoni. Please have a look at the article. Vittorio Arrigoni is an Italian human rights activist who is currently in Gaza, one of a number of activists who arrived with the Free Gaza movement. Vittorio (Vik) blogs at Guerrilla Radio , and also writes for the...
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I don’t know is as italian group we were effective in communicating the Global Voices Summit, with interviews, posts, articles, comments, liveblogging and so on,but we have some kind of reactions from the media and the italian blogosphere, here you can find all the links for web reactions, here you can find photos and...
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-1 day to leaving! In this month of “training”, I translated some articles and I also learned again to concentrated myself on reading, a skill that I was loosing and I also experienced again the enthusiasm of my first days on Internet, about 15 years ago, when sending an email and receiveing an answer...
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Sta scaldando i motori la versione italiana del progetto Global Voices Online. L’iniziativa parte dal Berkman Center for Internet and Society, come progetto volto a valutare l’impatto di Internet sulla società . L’idea è dare voce a migliaia di blogger nel mondo, sopratutto quelle che provengono dai Paesi che di solito hanno poco spazio...
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