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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...

Getutza

by David Sasaki | Mar 10, 2010 | English, Rising Voices

When I was in Romania last September I had the distinct privilege of meeting Getutza, one of the bloggers trained as part of the Blogging the Dream project in Campulung Moldovenesc, a small town in the north of the country. Eddie profiled Getutza on Rising Voices...

Global Voices and Foko on the BBC

by David Sasaki | Jul 9, 2009 | English, Rising Voices

Georgia and Ivan were on BBC’s Pods & Blogs show a couple days ago discussing the past, present, and future of Global Voices. I have made a track of just their segment in order to save my esteemed readers from having to listen to a piece on virtual guide...

In Which the Internet Buys Suso a Door

by David Sasaki | Feb 3, 2009 | English, Rising Voices

I am interested in the capacity of citizen media to capitalize our best intentions by creating a community of good will among individuals who would otherwise likely never meet. Marinade on this: a Trinidadian, Puerto Rican living in NYC, Argentinian living in Canada,...

It's not the technology, it's what you do with it

by David Sasaki | Jan 7, 2009 | English, Rising Voices

This was originally written for the (almost) weekly Rising Voices newsletter. You can subscribe here. I haven’t found a citation to verify this myself, but I’ve been told by quite a few people that when Alexander Bell was trying to promote his latest...

Street Poetry from Calcutta

by David Sasaki | Aug 25, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

An eBook version of Kalam’s annual anthology of poetry from marginalized communities in Calcutta is now available on Rising Voices. A $5 PayPal donation is suggested. I’ll be honest, I’ve never been the biggest fan of poetry, at least compared to...