Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists that deals with the observation and documentation of international blogs. Drawing not teach for profit online community was founded in 2004 at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. In 2008 she was registered as a charitable foundation in Amsterdam.

Operation

Global Voices Online would allow a community of " bridge bloggers " who " can beat a bridge between two languages ​​or two cultures. " An A team of regional editors selects discourses and summarizes them. The contributions come from a variety blogosphere with an emphasis on voices that do not come from the West and are under-represented. As part of the website of Global Voices Online, there are, for example, Congolese bloggers discussing the 2006 elections and Arab bloggers who respond to the controversy over the Danish cartoons.

Global Voices translation into other languages

In 2007, the Project Lingua formed with the aim to translate the content of Global Voices from English into other languages. Currently, the content will be translated by separate but closely linked groups in more than 15 languages ​​, including into German.

Awards

In January 2006, Global Voices was commissioned by the Reuters news agency assistance grant without conditions. Also in 2006, received the Foundation in recognition of its innovation in journalism with prize money of $ 10,000 Knight - Batten Grand Prize.