Stories about GVSummit08 from June, 2008
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
Advox workshops: Roger Dingledine on Tor and blocking resistance
A brief overview of Tor and its blocking-resistance design What assumptions we make about government firewalls, how our circumvention approach actually works, and how it's going so far. And if possible, addressing how to better leverage the small number of people who choose to use it as influencers of opinion and disseminators of...
Live: GV Advocacy Meeting (June 26)
A group of the leading online free speech activists from around the world have been invited to a closed meeting in advance of the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit by Global Voices Advocacy. The topic of discussion is how to work together towards a global anti-censorship movement. Renata Avila from...
Photos: GV Advocacy Meeting in Budapest (June 26)
A large number of activists have gathered in Budapest to discuss about threats to online free speech and finding out ways towards a global anti-censorship movement. The morning session has started and in the opening remarks the co-founder of Global Voices Online Ethan Zuckerman thanked everybody who came to the...