Global Voices Online

Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

• How Global Voices Works
• Our Primary Goals
• The Global Voices Team

How Global Voices Works:

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

With tens of millions of people blogging all over the planet, how do you avoid being overwhelmed by the information overload? How do you figure out who are the most influential or respected and credible bloggers or podcasters in any given country, especially those outside your own?

Our international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators are your guides to the global blogosphere.

These amazing people are bloggers who live in various countries around the world. We have invited them as contributors or hired them as editors because they understand the context and relevance of information, views, and analysis being posted every day from their countries and regions on blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, videoblogs - and other kinds of online citizen media. They are helping us to make sense of it all, and to highlight things that bloggers are saying which mainstream media may not be reporting.

For quick hits, check out our Links section, where each weekday our editors link to 5-10 of the most interesting blog posts from their regions. In the Weblog section, our translators, editors, and volunteer contributors post longer features, shedding light on the preoccupations of the blogging communities in their countries.

In addition to this website, Global Voices has an Advocacy program to help people speak out in places where their voices are censored online.

We also have an Outreach program called Rising Voices to enable help marginalized communities use citizen media to be heard.

Global Voices is also translated into more than a dozen languages by volunteer translators all over the world, who have formed the Lingua project.

Our Primary Goals:

At a time when the international English-language media ignores many things that are important to large numbers of the world’s citizens, Global Voices aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens’ media. We’re using a wide variety of technologies - weblogs, podcasts, photos, video, wikis, tags, aggregators and online chats - to call attention to conversations and points of view that we hope will help shed new light on the nature of our interconnected world. We aim to do the following:

1) Call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens’ media around the world by linking to text, photos, podcasts, video and other forms of grassroots citizens’ media being produced by people around the world

2) Facilitate the emergence of new citizens’ voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves

3) Advocate for freedom of expression around the world and to protect the rights of citizen journalists to report on events and opinions without fear of censorship or persecution

The idea for the project grew out of an international bloggers’ meeting held at Harvard in December 2004. (Here’s a written account of the meeting. To listen to an audio report, click here). Global Voices, though headquartered at Harvard Law School, is a co-operative effort of contributors from every continent and dozens of countries.

Because voices from North America and Western Europe are already over-represented in the global media, we are not focusing on those regions in our coverage at this time.

For more detailed information please read our Frequently Asked Questions.

If you’re a journalist and want more information, please click here.

If you’re a blogger and want to get involved, please click here.

If you're a translator and want to get involved, please click here.

The Global Voices Team:

Click here to read about our Advisory Board.

Co-Founders:
Ethan Zuckerman: ethan AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Rebecca MacKinnon: rebecca AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Managing Director:
Georgia Popplewell: georgiap AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Managing Editor:
Solana Larsen: solana AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Technology & Design Team:
Boris Anthony
Jeremy Clarke

Regional editors:

Caribbean: Janine Mendes-Franco: caribbean2 AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Caucasus: Onnik Krikorian: caucasus AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Central Asia: Adil Nurmakov: centralasia AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Eastern & Central Europe: Veronica Khokhlova: cee AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Latin America: Eduardo Ávila: latam AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Middle East/North Africa: Amira Al Hussaini: mideast AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
North East Asia: Oi wan Lam: northeastasia AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
South East Asia: Mong Palatino: mong.palatino AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
South Asia: Neha Viswanathan: southasia AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Sub-Saharan Africa: Ndesanjo Macha: africa AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Language editors:

Arabic: Amira Al Hussaini: arabic AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Chinese: John Kennedy: china AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
French: Jennifer Brea: french AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Persian: Hamid Tehrani: persian AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Portuguese: Jose Murilo Junior & Paula Góes: portuguese AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Russian/Belarusian/Ukrainian: Veronica Khokhlova: cee AT globalvoicesonline DOT com
Spanish: Eduardo Ávila: latam AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Japanese: Chris Salzberg & Hanako Tokita: japanese AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Korean: Hyejin Kim: korean AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Other editors:

Environment editor: Juliana Rotich: afromusing AT gmail DOT com

Podcast editor: Georgia Popplewell: editor AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Video editor: Juliana Rincón Parra: jules.rincon AT gmail DOT com

Lingua Director: Portnoy Zheng (with Leonard Chien) portnoy.zheng AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

Advocacy Director: Sami Ben Gharbia advocacy AT globalvoicesonline DOT org
Outreach Director: David Sasaki outreach AT globalvoicesonline DOT org