Global Voices is an international community of writers,

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and digital activists that aim to translate and report on what is being said in citizen media worldwide. It is a non-profit project started at the

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that grew out of an international

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gers' meeting held in December 2004. The organization was founded by

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and

Rebecca MacKinnon Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and late ...

. In 2008, it became an independent non-profit incorporated in

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Objectives

When Global Voices was formed, Its objectives were: first, to enable and empower a community of "bridge bloggers" who "can make a bridge between two languages, or two cultures." Second to develop tools and resources to make achieving the first objective more effective. It has maintained a working relationship with mainstream media. Reuters, for example, gave Global Voices unrestricted grants from 2006 to 2008. For its contribution to innovation in journalism, Global Voices was granted the 2006 Knight-Batten Grand Prize. Global Voices was also recognized in 2009 with the

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's Anvil of Freedom award for contributions to journalism and democracy. The organization stated its goals : *"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." *"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". *"Advocate for freedom of expression ... and protect the rights of citizen journalists". Global Voices has a team of regional editors that aggregates and selects conversations from a variety of

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s, with a particular focus on non-Western and underrepresented voices. Contributors are volunteers.

Notable people

Arzu Geybullayeva

Raymond Palatino Raymond "Mong" de Vera Palatino (born December 19, 1979) is a Filipino writer, journalist, politician, and activist. He represented Kabataan (Youth) Party in the 14th and 15th Congress of the Philippines. He is currently the secretary-general ...

Nanjala Nyabola Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Nyabola writes extensively about African society and politics, technology, international law, and feminism for academic and non-academic publications. Her firs ...

Omid Memarian

References

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