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6 January 2012

Global Voices Most Read Posts in 2011

Written by Solana Larsen · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Voices is no longer as lonely a media voice when it comes to reporting tweets and blog posts. Still, where mainstream media interest wanes, we're the ones who continue documenting local citizen media. Discover our top 20 list of most read posts for 2011.

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22 December 2011

Italy, Senegal: Strong Reactions Follow Murder of 2 Senegalese Men in Florence

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Amanda Mc Lane · Western Europe

On December 13, Gianluca Casseri opened fired on a group of Senegalese in two outdoor markets in Florence. The horrific event resulted in the death of two street vendors from Senegal, as well as the perpetrator. Abdoulaye Bah reports on the country's reactions.

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18 November 2011

Crisis Camp Italy: Using Web 2.0 to Manage Emergencies

Written by Antonella Sinopoli · Translated by Ciara Nugent · Western Europe

Mapping, geolocalization, citizen journalism, data management: just some of the topics to be discussed in Bologna on 19 November at Crisis Camp. The first Italian meeting about collaborative tools for emergencies.

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15 November 2011

Italy: End of the Road for Berlusconi

Written by Ylenia Gostoli · Translated by Ylenia Gostoli · Italy

Amidst scandals and controversies, the Italian Prime Minister resigned on Saturday, after losing his parliamentary majority during a crucial budget vote. As the technocrat Mario Monti is appointed as head of the new government, many Italians celebrate (on the streets and online) this historic event.

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12 November 2011

Italy/Tunisia: Migrants' Opinions of the Arab Spring

Written by Davide Galati · Translated by Ciara Nugent · Tunisia, Egypt

A documentary film, #Revolution, featuring the voices of some African immigrants living in Italy will be part of "Immaginafrica", a festival dedicated to African film-making organised by the University of Padua, Italy.

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21 September 2011

Mozambique: Sant'Egidio Community Fights Back Against HIV/AIDS

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Lova Rakotomalala · Sub-Saharan Africa

Lack of access to care for HIV positive people has been well documented on the African continent. Many initiatives strive to show that things could improve with collective effort, and among them is the Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) program.

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31 March 2011

Japan: The Tsunami, God and Man

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia, Western Europe

A few days after the disaster that killed more than ten thousand people, Italian vice-president of the National Research Council (CNR) Roberto De Mattei and Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara left the Italian and the Japanese blogosphere astounded when they declared that the catastrophe occurred as a manifestation of God’s will. Both in Japan and in Italy bloggers reacted and demanded their resignation.

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21 December 2010

COP16: Conclusions from Young Trackers

Written by Andrea Arzaba · North America, Latin America

Young trackers from the Adopt a Negotiator Project blogged throughout COP16, United Nations Climate Change Conference that took place in Cancún, Mexico. These were some of their concluding statements and thoughts on what happened at COP16 from their country's perspective.

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23 September 2010

Italy: Social Media Week in Milan and Worldwide

Written by Bernardo Parrella · Translated by Bernardo Parrella · Western Europe, North America

Social Media Week is an eclectic, multi-city event (Sept 20-24) aimed at connecting people, content, and conversations about emerging trends in social and mobile media.

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30 August 2010

Western Europe: A journey through tech for transparency projects

Written by Sylwia Presley · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

Sylwia Presley takes us on a tour of technology for transparency projects in Western Europe.

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Updates about Italian

29 June 2010

Italy

“No Bavaglio” (No Gag) is a large protest movement in Italy against a proposed privacy law that would impose heavy fines on newspapers (and blogs) that publish transcripts of phone calls. The law is suspect, because wiretapping has played a key role in media investigations that have led to mafia arrests and political scandals. The mobilization is taking place on Liberarete.tv and Facebook group, among other online venues.

• Bernardo Parrella

16 April 2010

Italy

Threatened Voices has received an Honorable Mention in the first Digital Heretics journalism award, established at the upcoming International journalism festival in Perugia, Italy (April 21-25). The project coordinator and GV author Sami Ben Gharbia, will be rewarded with a Kodak Zi8 videocamera during a special event with guest speakers Koro Castellano (editor elMundo.es) and Marco Pancini (Google Italy director). The other Honorable Mentions are The Berlin Project, in.fondo.al.mar, and Omofobia Capitale, while the first place award is a tie between After Jugo – Sarajevo the life of a generation, by Marco Pavan, and ELEVEN Catania, inchiesta collettiva a 11 voci, by the University of Catania. [via Beatrice Borgato].

• Bernardo Parrella

21 March 2010

Japan

Photographer and blogger Sigrid, author of one of the most popular Italian gourmet blogs, is in Kyoto. Wonderful pictures of the city and of the delicatessen she has, together with mouth-watering Japanese recipes for the Cavoletto di Bruxelles‘ fans.

• Scilla Alecci

16 February 2010

Italy

Patrizia Venturino filmed and uploaded the video of the Maierato landslide where a whole hill slid down the slope in the province of Vibo Valentia in Calabria. The clear video shows as the citizens run away from the river of rocks, dirt and trees amid the shouts of the police and those at the scene.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

28 July 2009

Japan

Paolo Soldano at Japanblues sums up (it) the main points of the election campaigns of LDP and DPJ.

• Scilla Alecci

21 March 2009

Japan

Italian comedian and opinion-leader Beppe Grillo's blog [ja] is the only blog that is translated into Japanese (and English), presenting Italy from an unusual perspective. In his blog, he also hosts the translated version of journalist Marco Travaglio's weekly talks on the misdeeds of the current Italian government [it].

• Scilla Alecci

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