Featured stories about GVSummit08
Stories about GVSummit08
NGOs: Defending the voices
At the end of our first day of open work, GV founder Rebecca MacKinnon put an important idea on the table: censorship is not only a political or technological problem; it is also a social problem. Thus, it is important to encourage bloggers to resist; to keep blogging. In this last task, the NGOs are one of the most valuable resources for bloggers who need help to keep blogging actively for their causes. The main question for the session was how NGOs can help more effectively.
Activists Meet the Academy: GVO Summit Day 1, Session 4
Participants of the fourth session of Global Voices first day of its Summit 2008, discussed the tools to help create better internet access while maintaining anonymity. The session, which carried the title “Front Line Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge,” provided hands-on information for internet users from repressive states and those with freer governments.
Towards a total human rights outlook
How can NGOs seeking to advance freedom of expression most effectively work with on-the-ground free speech activists to combat censorship? As a journalist, author and blogger living in Sydney, Australia, the opportunity to be involved in this Global Voices event is a privilege. I thank the organisers for the opportunity.
Citizen Media and Online Free Speech
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 was specifically focused on how censorship affects bloggers and citizen media.
A global anti-censorship network: GV08 Summit Day One, Session One
Also making opening remarks on Day One was Sami Ben Ghabia, Adcovacy Director for Global Voices. Sami is originally from Tunisia, but is now living in the Netherlands. Sami described how the Advocacy Project for Global Voices has been following how citizens are using digital media for social activism.
GV Summit: Day One a Success!
The first day of the Global Voices 2008 Summit in Budapest, Hungary was a wild success, as far as we can see (obviously we can't know all of the implications this early in the game). The morning started with an introduction from Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon,
Advox Conference: Stephanie Hankey's slides about Tactical Technology Collective
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Nart Villeneuve's slides on censorship circumvention
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Andrew Heavens on Censorship in Ethiopia
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Rezwan on Self Censorship in media Role of citizen journalists
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Living with censorship” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Oiwan Lam on The Formation of a post-colonial censorship regime
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Amine on Exposing Corruption on YouTube “Targuist Sniper”
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Robert Guerra – Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Hamid Tehrani about the filtering situation in Iran
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Citizen Media and Online Free Speech” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Awab Alvi on the Battle For A Cyber Free Pakistan
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Towards a Global Anti-Censorship Network” on 27th June 2008 Battle For A Cyber Free Pakistan from Teeth Maestro
Advox Conference: Chris Salzberg on Web Censorship and Public Awareness in Japan
Chris Salzberg discusses internet regulation and censorship trends in Japan Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Towards a Global Anti-Censorship Network” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox Conference: Andrey Abozau talks about the Belarusian situation
Talk given to the Global Voices Summit 2008 Session “Toward a Global anti-censorship network” on 27th June 2008 | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Robert Guerra on the user perspective
Online Free Speech: Toward a global anti-censorship movement – The User perspective from robertguerra What do people really use, challenges they have, and recommendations for the future.
Advox workshops: Rob Faris on Internet filtering
The future of Internet filtering and the role for activists in documenting filtering. The changing political, legal, social and technical aspects of Internet filtering and discuss a new distributed tool that we are developing to aggregate information on global filtering. | View | Upload your own
Advox workshops: Nart Villeneuve on Detecting internet filtering
Detecting internet filtering Some techniques that people can use to increase the accuracy of censorship reports. | View | Upload your own
