Global Voices

Global Voices is an international community of writers, bloggers, translators, journalists, researchers 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 Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School that grew out of an international bloggers' meeting held in December 2004. The organization was founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. In 2008, it became an independent non-profit incorporated in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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 University of Denver's Anvil of Freedom award for contributions to journalism and democracy.
The organization stated its goals as of 2012:

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

Summits

Global Voices has organized biannual summits and bloggers meetings for their virtual community to meet face-to-face.

Summit	Place	Date
	London, United Kingdom	December 10, 2005
	Delhi, India	December 16, 2006
	Budapest, Hungary	June 27-28, 2008
	Santiago, Chile	May 6-7, 2010
	Nairobi, Kenya	July 2-3, 2012
	Cebu, Philippines	January 24-25, 2015
	Colombo, Sri Lanka	December 2-3, 2017
	Taipei, Taiwan	June 2, 2019
	Kathmandu, Nepal	December 6-7, 2024

Meeting	Place	Date
Arab Bloggers Meeting 2008	Beirut, Lebanon	2008
	Beirut, Lebanon	December 7-12, 2009
Arab Bloggers Meeting 2011	Tunisia	2011
	Amman, Jordan	January 20-23, 2014

Notable people

Marianne Díaz Hernández
Arzu Geybullayeva
Omid Memarian
Nanjala Nyabola
Malka Older
Raymond Palatino