Nairobi, Wednesday 27 June 2012
The Global Voices Summit 2012 is a public event taking place on 2-3 July, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya at the Pride Inn along Rhapta Road in the Westlands Business District . The Summit convenes hundreds of bloggers, activists, and technologists for public discussions and workshops about online citizen media movements worldwide.
Key Topics to be covered:
Occupy movement, Influence of the Diaspora online, Under-represented languages, Surveillance and censorship, Tech companies and corporate responsibility.
Featured panels
include “Giants of the Internet” with Google and Yahoo,
“Consent of the Networked” with book author and Global Voices co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon.
Highlights:
Al Jazeera English television program “The Stream” will broadcast a live hook-up from the Summit on Monday, 2 July, 2012.
The Breaking Borders Award, sponsored by Google, will be awarded on July 2, followed by a cocktail reception featuring live performances by Pierce Freelon and Apple Juice Kid, and the POWO Poets.
Confirmed guests include Dutch filmmaker Maartje Nevejan, Danah boyd of Microsoft Research, Laura Walker-Hudson of Frontline SMS, and Gilad Lotan of SocialFlow.
ABOUT GLOBAL VOICES
Global Voices was founded in 2005 by former CNN Beijing and Tokyo Bureau Chief, Rebecca MacKinnon and technologist and Africa expert, Ethan Zuckerman while they were both fellows at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
The Global Voices network now comprises over 700 bloggers and translators around the world who bring the most interesting conversations emerging in their local communities online – perspectives often unheard in mainstream media.
Global Voices is translated into more than 30 languages, including Swahili and Malagasy, by volunteer translators as part of the Lingua project. Additionally, Global Voices has an Advocacy network to speak out against censorship, and an outreach project called Rising Voices for online content from marginalized communities in the developing world.
The Global Voices summit includes plenary discussions, “unconference” open sessions, and hands-on training workshops. Beyond the online real-time participation during the Summit wth an international audience, the knowledge and conversations will be documented and published for further research and development.
Summit web site: http://summit.