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Ivan Sigal

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Executive Director

I'm Global Voices' executive director, since the middle of 2008. Prior to working with GV, I spent 10 years working in media development in the former Soviet Union and Asia, supporting and training journalists and working on media co-productions. Much of that time I was with Internews. I'm also a photographer, and have worked and traveled in 70 countries. I speak Russian, manage in German, have forgotten Slovak and Czech, and can make it home in Thai.

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7 May 2010

Announcing the Winners of the Breaking Borders Award

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

Honoring those who are working to advance free expression on the Internet, Google and Global Voices today have announced the first winners of the Breaking Borders Award. The awards, supported...

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4 May 2010

Pakistan: Internet and the challenge of language

Written by Ivan Sigal · Pakistan

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. Pakistan today would seem primed for rapid growth in internet use. The country has had explosive growth of...

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8 March 2010

SuperPower: BBC and Global Voices

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

A joint project between Global Voices and BBC News as part of the BBC's SuperPower season begins today. For two weeks, we'll be adding citizen media links within BBC news stories, while sharing off-the-radar stories from our own newsroom with BBC editors and reporters.

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10 February 2010

Breaking Borders award at the GV Summit 2010

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

The Breaking Borders Award is a new prize created by Google and Global Voices and supported by Thomson Reuters to honor outstanding web projects initiated by individuals or groups that...

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4 February 2010

Who writes about ICT4D online?

Written by Ivan Sigal · The Future of ICT for Development

After several months of dedicated analysis about how ICT for development is covered on the web, here are some thoughts from Global Voices about the online availability of information about ICT4D

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2 February 2010

Global Voices and Google announce freedom of expression award jury

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

The Breaking Borders Award is a new prize created by Google and Global Voices and supported by Thomson Reuters to honor outstanding web projects initiated by individuals or groups that...

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31 August 2009

Global Voices seeks staff for new project: “Interpreting RuNet”

Written by Ivan Sigal · Eastern & Central Europe

Global Voices seeks a part-time project editor and a contributing editor for a new initiative, "Interpreting RuNet", to deepen our coverage of Russian-language blogospheres, online speech and social networks.

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1 July 2009

Global Voices translation exchange takes off

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

Ever wonder how to build and maintain open language corpora? Design a translation memory tool to more efficiently translate large amounts of text across multiple languages? Crowdsource translations of everything...

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11 May 2009

Global: The polyglot internet and translation exchange

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

Global Voices has recently been awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation to support our work with Lingua, our translation project, and to research and develop a project to investigate...

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Global Voices is seeking a Project Manager for Translation Exchange

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

Global Voices is launching a new project! We're seeking a half-time project manager. The project: Global Voices is launching a project to research, design, and build a translation exchange to...

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