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Global Voices Most Read Posts in 2011

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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Arab Bloggers Meet in Tunis

On Monday in Tunis, the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting kicked off with a day-long public conference. The meeting is co-hosted by Global Voices, Nawaat and Heinrich Böll Foundation and is attended by around 100 bloggers from nearly all Arab countries.

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New Partnership Between Global Voices and El Colombiano 27 September 2011
Update on Global Voices Mentorship: Meet the Activists 24 September 2011
Global Voices Seeks Administration and Finance Manager 22 September 2011
Blog Carnival: Nicaragua - Migration 5 September 2011
Blog Carnival: Mexico - Is There a Solution to This Violence? 2 September 2011

Latest stories about Announcements

28 October 2011

Global Voices Russian Partners With Neweurasia.net

Written by Ekaterina · Central Asia & Caucasus

We are pleased to announce partnership of Global Voices in Russian with Neweurasia.net, one of the most prominent citizen media platforms in Central Asia and about Central Asia, which has a large Russian and English speaking audience.

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1 September 2011

Blog Carnival: Mexico - The United States and Violence in Mexico

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Silvia Viñas · North America, Latin America

This fourth summary of the 2011 Blog Carnival: Mexico - Citizenry, Violence and Blogs, looks at what bloggers wrote regarding the relationship between Mexico and the United States on issues of violence.

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31 August 2011

Blog Carnival: Mexico - Is Mexican Society Violent by Nature?

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Jen Fumero · Latin America

This summary of our Blog Carnival: Mexico - Citizenry, Violence and Blogs looks at what Mexican bloggers think about their society which is sometimes described as violent by nature. Bloggers also shared some artistic work related to violence.

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Global Voices Partners with UNFPA on 7 Billion Actions

Written by Solana Larsen · Development, Humanitarian Response

This year the world's population will exceed 7 billion people. To mark this milestone, Global Voices has been commissioned by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to write a series of posts that celebrate how one person or group can still make a difference in a world of 7 billion people.

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30 August 2011

Blog Carnival: Mexico - Citizen Media on the Scene

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Louella Mahabir · Latin America

This second post reporting on the 2011 Blog Carnival, summarizes opinions of Mexican bloggers on the way media covers violence, and above all, on the role of citizen media in this violent context.

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29 August 2011

Blog Carnival: Mexico - Verbalizing the Violence

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Stephen Cairns · Latin America

Our first 2011 Blog Carnival had the theme "Mexico - Citizenry, Violence and Blogs". In this first part of the final summary, we showcase what Mexican bloggers thought about past violent events happening in their country and how they handle and express their pain when violence has affected them.

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Updates about Announcements

4 July 2010

Armenia

Global Voices Caucasus Regional Editor Onnik Krikorian will take part in a panel at a public conference, Blogs and Bullets: Evaluating the Impact of New Media on Conflict, at the U.S. Institute of Peace on 8 July. Co-sponsored by the George Washington University Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, the conference will also involve other Global Voices representatives, including co-founder Ethan Zuckerman, as well as representatives from the U.S. Institute of Peace, George Washington University, U.S. State Department, Google, Facebook, and others. Global Voices' coverage of the use of new and social media in the context of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh can be found here.

• Onnik Krikorian

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

Germany

The international Best of Blogs Awards, organized by Deutsche Welle, have entered the final voting phase. You may now vote online until April 14, 2010, for your favorite blog(s) in eleven languages and various categories, including freedom of expression and climate change.

• Claire Ulrich

13 October 2009

Lebanon

Arab bloggers from 19 countries will meet in Beirut from December 7 to 12. Check out the event's website for updates on the Social Arab Web: 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting.

• Amira Al Hussaini

19 August 2009

South Africa

You can register for the annual Digital Citizen Indaba taking place next month in South Africa: “It is now possible to register for DCI 4.0 from the Highway Africa website as DCI is a Highway Africa project.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

22 July 2007

Benin

Benninese blogger Blaise Aplogan writes about the upcoming festival of Voodoo, set to take place in Paris this week, and the ongoing Voodoo debate (Fr): “More and more, prophetic religions, notably Christianity, are investing in a dialogue with traditional African religions…[and] traditional African religious leaders are asking themselves what meaning to give to democracy, scientific and technological reason, [and Christianity]…”

• Jennifer Brea

4 January 2007

Tunisia

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 …”

• Alice Backer

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