Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers that summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of It is a non-profit website hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School and grew out of an international bloggers' meeting in December 2004 and is founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School that focuses on the legal study of Cyberspace. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripodcom, a Web hosting enterprise and later founder of Geekcorps. Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is a former CNN Journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo before Its objectives are two-fold: first, to enable and empower a community of "bridgebloggers" who "can make a bridge between two languages, or two cultures. "[1], It has a team of regional editors that aggregates and selects what it thinks are the interesting conversations going on in a diversity of blogospheres, ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with a particular focus on non-Western and underrepresented voices. One might find on its homepage, for example, Congolese bloggers discussing the 2006 elections, or Jordanian and Arab bloggers responding to the 2005 Danish cartoons controversy.
Its second objective is to develop tools and resources that make achieving the first objective more effective. A primary resource is maintaining a close working relationship with the mainstream media that is mutually beneficial: the best way to amplify underrepresented voices is to have their story picked up and covered by the mainstream media. Global Voices thus sees itself in a supplementary rather than an oppositional role to the traditional press. Reuters , for example, has given Global Voices an unrestricted grant in January 2006. [2] Furthermore, as recognition for its contribution to innovation in journalism, Global Voices was granted the prestigious 2006 Knight-Batten Grand Prize. In 2007, Project Lingua was launched. Project Lingua seeks to amplify Global Voices in languages other than English with the help of volunteer translators.
References
- ^ Clark Boyd, "Global voices speak through blogs," BBC, April 6, 2005.
- ^ Mark Sweney, "Reuters partners in comment blog," Guardian (UK), April 13, 2006.
External links
- Global Voices Online official site
- (Albanian) GVO Albanian translation project
- (Arabic) GVO Arabic translation project
- (Bengali) GVO Bangla translation project
- (Chinese) GVO Chinese (Simplified) translation project
- (Chinese) GVO Chinese (Traditional) translation project
- (French) GVO French translation project
- (German) GVO German translation project
- (Hindi) GVO Hindi translation project
- (Macedonian) GVO Macedonian translation project
- (Persian) GVO Persian translation project
- (Portuguese) GVO Portuguese translation project
- (Spanish) GVO Spanish translation project
- (Japanese) GVO Japanese translation project
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