The Pacification of Rio’s Favelas
Weekends like this. Locked up in my room, or in various cafes, with a constant intake of caffeine to keep my fingers tapping on the keyboard to the rhythm from my tinny laptop speakers. Right now: J-Live. Yesterday I worked about 12 hours on a single post, a general...
Desde Bogotá
Often times I work myself harder than my body is able to support, but this past month has been especially rough. And now I’m paying the price. I arrived to Bogotá yesterday morning with deep purple bags under my eyes, a sore throat, and about enough energy to...
Global Voices Summit 2010
This year’s 2010 Global Voices Summit will take place on May 6 and 7 in Santiago, Chile. If you would like to attend you can register here. Solana, Georgia, Ivan and I have been so busy working on the fundraising, agenda, and logistics that we haven’t done...![[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media](https://i0.wp.com/farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2641356707_a55a75c8d9.jpg?w=425)
[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media
The following is my translation of Paula Gonzalo’s interview with Juan Arellano about the Lingua Project on Global Voices. Links have been changed to their English-language equivalents when possible. Juan Arellano is one of the bloggers who, beginning in 2007,...
Upcoming: Human Rights, Liberians in NYC, Lullabies in Argentina, OLPC Uruguay, Voces Bolivianas, Community News, Collaborative Translation, and Digital Transformation
I intended for this post to serve as some sort of table of contents for what I’ll be writing about over the next couple months, but I think that this is really me trying to keep my head on straight as I flutter and flounder all over the map. The Soul of the New...Whether their intentions are noble or not
Mario’s asking me for “some links to some oakland blogs on the street.” Something that “captures the block.” So here you go Mario: This and other amazing citizen media from Oakland youth is available on Youth Radio. Learn more about Youth...Mobile Voices and the Ethical Responsibilities of Citizen Journalism Training
Last week François Bar (who I last kicked it with down in Chile with Enzo) invited me to give a guest lecture to his COMM620 “research seminar on mobile phones, online community, and social change.” The course is the academic component of an...It's not the technology, it's what you do with it
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...
Rising Voices Seeks Micro-grant Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own. Applications are due no later than Sunday, January 18, 2009. The five selected grantees will be announced in early February.
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