Many Tongues, One Internet
Remember Taslima from the Nari Jibon project in Dhaka? Isn’t she sweet? Now she has her own domain, Taslima.net. Go on and visit and say hello. Yesterday she led a workshop at Nari Jibon to train the other bloggers there how to publish in their native language,...Bangladesh
It’s difficult to believe that it’s that time again. Looking around my hotel room, all my stuff strewn about, and knowing that somehow, someway, it will all fit back into my little suitcase. Early tomorrow morning I will head back to the one place that has...Hand on the Heart
Georgia and I are compiling a list of our favorite words, phrases, and concepts as we travel around and meet more of our Global Voices colleagues. Among our favorites are “take my salam” which leads every email written by Taslima and “are you in...Big Banks Crush Mobile Innovation in Bangladesh
In addition to struggling through Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian, I’m also reading Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture. I first encountered Lessig in an international political economy class in college. This was before I was blogging and before...
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A Californian woman named Bernann McKinney paid a South Korean scientist nearly $50,000 to clone her deceased pit bull, Booger. How much would I pay to clone my very own Booger? That’s right, $51,000. Though I’d make her miniature and stuff her in my...An Update from Nari Jibon
Every two weeks we highlight some of the latest and greatest from newly trained Rising Voices bloggers. Usually these posts take us all over the world, but this week we are going to focus specifically on Dhaka, Bangladesh where a group of ambitious young women are...
Bodies Wrapped in Silk, Distance and Proximity in Friendships, the Island of the Sun, and Dedicated Teachers
At this year’s Global Voices Summit held in Budapest many attendees asked the Rising Voices participants how they could help support their projects. One of the best way to encourage new bloggers to keep sharing stories about their lives and communities is to...
A Brief Trip to Medellin, Madagascar, Dhaka, and Uruguay
Many thanks to Nicholas Laughlin from Trinidad and Tobago and Joan Razafimaharo from Montreal, Canada for leaving comments on the last batch of featured Rising Voices posts. I hope that more of you will leave comments of encouragement in this week’s collection...(Really) Breaking Outside of the Echo Chamber
The most difficult challenge I’ve encountered so far with Rising Voices hasn’t been training new communities with little online experience how to effectively use new media tools like blogs, podcasts and video- and photo-sharing sites. Nope … that has...Latest Photos
