December, 2009
Featured stories from December 2009
Global Voices needs your support
Dear Global Voices Reader, We'd like to ask you to support our work for 2010 with a financial contribution. If you've been following the activity on the Global...
China: Cui Weiping tweets elite views on Liu Xiaobo
Many Chinese public intellectuals take flack for keeping quiet on major social issues. Beijing Film Academy professor Cui Weiping has sought to change that by tweeting her peers' views on the recent sentencing of China's most prominent democrat.
Global Voices partners with Google on freedom of expression award
Nominations open today (December 29) for the Breaking Borders Award, a new prize created by Global Voices and Google to honor outstanding web projects initiated by individuals or groups that demonstrate courage, energy and resourcefulness in using the Internet to promote freedom of expression.
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Five Years of Global Voices: Where they are now 29 December 2009
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Russia: Role of Stalin Debated on RuNet 27 December 2009
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Palestine: Gaza's Bloggers Remember The War 27 December 2009
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Iran: When Rage Overcomes Fear 27 December 2009
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Global: Tweeting for #Gaza 27 December 2009
Stories from December, 2009
31 December 2009
Caribbean: 2009 Regional Roundup
As Global Voices celebrates its fifth anniversary, the occasion has given us all an opportunity to reflect on why we do what we do and how our work makes a...
Caucasus: 2009 Blog Review
If the Armenian and Georgian blogospheres attracted most interest during 2008 after one disputed presidential election in the former and an albeit short war with Russia in the latter, Azerbaijan was the undoubted focus in 2009. In particular, youth activists quickly embraced both new and social media to spread their message online.
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30 December 2009
Indonesia: Email mom ‘not guilty' says the High Court
Prita Mulyasari, a housewife who was charged with defamation by a hospital for an email complaint against a bad health service, was found not guilty by the Indonesian High Court. Bloggers and twitterers are happy with the ruling.
I have just had some news about Iaiá, from Alcinéia. She did another jump at the end of last year,...