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Ethan Zuckerman on African and what's really happening on the world wide web! My rough notes
- global voices edited aggregator
- hao wu filmaker, blogger detained on feb 22, 2006
- rebecca mckinnon co-founder
- put up website to advocate
- 8 emails
- never met him !
- started working with his sister
- who ended up blogging
- now translate blog
- and know more about hao: mba, worked with earthlink, etc
- lesson learned: don't speak, point!
- and get out of the way!
- 2 out 100 global voices bloggers in prison
- there is a thriving African blogosphere, something that Sir Bob Geldof missed
- e.g. Kenyan bloggers
- lesson: people all over the world have access to tools
- they will tell you what they think, which might be to shut up!
- north americans are minority
- 2005 - first thing users do is create content!
- next billion users are creators
- focus therefore on:access, translating, contextualizing, context, amplification
- global voices - real exponential growth
- access to tools is not as big a problem as we often think
- main barrier is making sure people can use tools without getting into trouble
- how do you speak about political issues in repressive society?
- answer create handbook for reporting anonymous
- GV has regional editors - $700/month
- small team of translators
- amplifying - get bloggers into established journalism
- not only ones doing this
- e.g. This is Zimbabwe
- br23.net - belarus election, posting live video of protest on Minsk
- human rights watch is not blogging but encouraging others to blog
- don't need high tech, darfur crayon drawings from kids
- 11a.m. Eastern editorial meeting on irc global voices on freenode.org
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