Global Voices Online

Our friend Isaac Mao lets us know that the http://globalvoicesonline.org domain name may not be accessible for our users within China. Our address at Harvard - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices appears to work within China, and we encourage anyone who is having difficulty accessing our site to try both domain names - both resolve to the same site.

Update: Isaac has a post on the situation on his blog, in Chinese.

Posted by Ethan Zuckerman

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Recent Links also in About GVO

Bint Battuta in Bahrain introduces Global Voices Online and its different projects to her readers here.

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]…”

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 …”