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Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008

By evmonk
Published Friday, June 27th, 2008, 12:28 pm
Filed under: World: Antartica, World: Australia, World: Europe, World: North America, World: South America, World: Asia, World: Africa, World Issues, Science and Technology, Human Rights, Videos: Political, Society/Culture

Global Voices, a unique blogging project started by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is holding their yearly conference in Budapest for the next two days. Today the conference panels are focused on the censorship and freedom of expression online. Tomorrow there will be a number of panels on citizen media and the use of web2.0 to improve the political process, build community, and bridge the language barrier. The entire even is being streamed and liveblogged, and archived video of every panel is available here. If you’re interested in this stuff, there are some great speakers and discussions. But remember that these are bloggers and technophiles, so their presentations aren’t always the most entertaining.

If you haven’t heard of Global Voices, check them out. They aggregate and review blogs from around the world and then organize the best posts by region and topic, in addition to having a general feed.

One Response to “Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008”

  1. It was only a matter of time before serious consideration was given to talk of regulating the internet. But I didn’t believe it would happen now.

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