Global Voices Online

I have created a special aggregator for GVO. All confirmed participants with blogs or a site with an RSS feed have been plugged into it.

All confirmed participants are also being given author access to the Bloglines aggregator (you should all receive an email about this). I've set up different folders for different regions of the world. Please plug in your favorite English-language blogs from around the world. (Perhaps we can create separate folders for different languages - anybody with author access can do this.) By aggregate blogs from around the world we hope initially to get a better picture of what an English-reader can learn about the world from reading blogs that he or she cannot learn from just reading mainstream media. If we're capable, we will also want to build a picture of what the Chinese-reading person gains from reading blogs, or a Portugese-reader, etc.

Posted by Rebecca MacKinnon

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Wendy of Babasiga is attending Fijian Conference in Adelaide, Australia and blogs about the experiences there. “The conference discussions and sessions were in various styles – academic, story telling, humorous or serious, and passionate preaching.”

London based Burmese bloggers show concern over the increase in teenage crimes. Steve E. questions “Why is the incidence of knife crime growing up rapidly these days?” and wonders a way to reduce such crimes while CMS witnesses yet another teenage gang fight.

While the football world is enjoying the UEFA European Football Championship, many countries in Africa are restricted to watching 8 tournament games. Jentilisa, blogging from Madagascar, explains that the number of games to be broadcasted was decided by AFNEX (African Network and News Exchange) who bought the rights to the tournament in the region for African national televisions. He argues that Africa is home to many of the elite players who play in major European clubs and soon home of the next FIFA World Cup 2010 in South-Africa and the tournament should not be restricted to rich people who owns satellite dishes. He wishes that Chinese TV CCTV would dispute this monopoly in the future and lower the broadcasting fees for resource limited nations (fr and mg).