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[Review] Rewire

by David Sasaki | May 16, 2013 | Book Review, English, Global Voices, Rising Voices

Ethan has crafted a beautiful, engaging book for all who seek to transcend the cultural, political, and linguistic barriers that history has placed between us. Unfortunately, I fear that those of us who aspire to global citizenship are a small and diminishing...

Zowzah

by David Sasaki | Sep 20, 2008 | English, Global Voices

Sign of my life: the friend I’ve seen the most over the past few months does’t even live in my country. Georgia and I have been seen liming lately in Miami, Jamaica, Hungary, Austria, and now here in Madagascar. For the past couple days we’ve been...

My Posts in French, Italian, Spanish, Bangla, Macedonian, and Chinese

by David Sasaki | Aug 9, 2008 | English, Global Voices, Rising Voices

These days I don’t write much on either Global Voices or Rising Voices. Much of that is left to my colleagues Rezwan and Juhie, along with all the amazing coordinators of the Rising Voices projects. But, thanks to the work of the volunteer translates at Global...

A critique of Global Voices

by David Sasaki | Jul 9, 2008 | English, Global Voices, Globalization, Rising Voices

It’s not very hard to convince people – friends, family, strangers – that Global Voices is amazing and deserving of their support. In fact, not once have I described what I do for a living to anyone and heard the reaction, ‘well, that sounds...

Citizen Media and Online Free Speech

by David Sasaki | Jun 27, 2008 | English, Global Voices

Originally published on the Global Voices Summit blog. While the first session of the 2008 Global Voices Summit focused on how internet censorship works in Belarus, Japan, Egypt, and Pakistan, and how activists have responded to those limitations, the second session...

[Series] Open Software, Open Content, Open Translation Part III

by David Sasaki | Dec 13, 2007 | English, Global Voices

Now that we’ve gone over the basics of open source software and open content, let’s take a closer look at what brought all of the participants together in Croatia: translation. I normally flinch at the word ‘movement’, but I’ll make an...