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About GVO, GVDelhi2006

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 …”

4 comments

  • Portnoy

    Fantastic! Move on!

    # 2007-01-4 at 22:46 pm
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  • ilya

    Congratulation, Francophone GV!

    # 2007-01-5 at 2:39 am
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  • Alice Backer

    Thanks Portnoy and Ilya!

    # 2007-01-5 at 10:30 am
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    [...] A 2007 to Look Forward To As critics predict that 2007 will be the stage to a web 2.0 explosion, there is every reason to believe that Francophone blogs will only get more numerous and better connected. The Blog Africa 2.0 has made it a point to chronicle each step the African internet takes in that direction and will no doubt continue doing so. Plus, Global Voices is preparing to launch Project Lingua which should bring Global Voices content in French to French speaking bloggers, a step which if successful, will only enlarge their cross-pollination and exposure to other more active linguistic communities on the web. [...]

    # 2007-01-17 at 15:58 pm

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