August 2009
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Conversations For a Better World
“Conversations for a Better World is a shared blog on population and development issues. It is a place where people exchange ideas and opinions, a place for us to be ourselves. The idea is to get people talking about how we can co-create a better world. And we want you to join in and become part of a global network of ‘conversation starters’. Conversations is based on ‘the power of we’ –...
June 2009
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Ghana's based 'Young People We Care'
Young People We Care (YPWC) is a youth led and youth focused organization that is headquartered in Ghana, with additional satellite offices in Uk and Canada. The organization “aims to educate and inform youth on global issues; inspire them to take action; encourage youth participation in global issues; identify and build sustainable partnerships aimed at youth development; and provide young...
Following Iran Updates
The Audience following Iran in these hours is the biggest online movement ever seen.
You can keep up with the situation throught Iran Twazzup, Global Voices Online, BBC, Mashable and some live blogging channels: The Daily Dish, Revolutionary Road and
Numerous hot links about the social media issues related to the protests on my Delicious account.
Iran Clashing Reports
With Iran facing a serious of clashes, manifestations and fights between Mousavi supporters and Police, the Social web offers a wide coverage of what is happening, despite the attempt of the governament to block any voice arresting hundreds of people, shutting down tv and radio channels and closing down facebook and youtube…
Here is a range of interesting material:
a list of some users...
Lebanon: Natra Bareed Web Initiative
Social Media Exchange reports about a Web Based Campaign to promote an event regarding Homosexuality in Lebanon through Viral Marketing and buzzes.
Natra Bareed?
May 2009
9 posts
Singapore Pink-Dot Smart Mob
“More than 2,500 people in Singapore gathered at Hong Lim Park to form a human Pink Dot - a symbol of love and inclusiveness. It was Singapore’s first public rally in support for the Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. ” [GV Article]
PinkDot is the first Singapore Web-Portal about freedom of Love, supporting Gay, Lesbians and transgender right of expression in a...
Iran, Facebook down. Again?
Iran’s web based political campaign had a very short life.
Governament blocked the access to both Facebook and Flickr.
Too bad Ahmadinejad couldn’t manage to understand the importance of a free and open debate on the world wide web. Another chance lost. Again.
UPDATE 26/05 It seems Facebook is up again now.
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The Pink Panty Campaign
“The Pink Chaddi Campaign is a nonviolent protest movement launched in India in February 2009 in response to notable incidences of violent conservative and right-wing activism against perceived violations of Indian culture, when a group of women were attacked in a pub in Mangalore. The campaign was conceived particularly in protest against a threat by Pramod Muthalik of the Sri Ram Sena...
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Pakistan Long March Web Coverage
In 2007 Musharraf, president of Pakistan, declared the national state of emergency. With this declaration the president had the right to remove more than 60 judjes from power (some of wich had part in the Supreme Court who had just ruled he was ineligible to hold the post of President). For the second consecutive year, “Pakistani lawyer community of Pakistan along with concerned citizens,...
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Kenya Web Based Activism
Throught the GV Rising Voices Group I got to know the Mars Group, a leadership, governance, accountability and media watchdog organization based in Kenya.
“Our goal is to create awareness and to generate an effective demand, by Kenyans, for accountability from Kenya’s leadership and to encourage Kenyans to hold to account those who have committed improprieties.”
Among the many...
Ahmadinejad aimes to Iran's web activism
After some of the candidates for the next political elections in Iran joined the web with a massive campaign on the path of Barack Obama’s web activism, also Ahmadinejad’s supporters started a web-based political campaign.
Global Voices tell us about the new twitter and facebook pages on the Iranian leader, and although there are very little followers of the president actively...
Global Protests against FARC throught Facebook
Another great example of the organizative power that lies in Facebook and social networking.
Colombia has been for decades under the pressure, murdering and actions of the Guerrilla groups called FARC. The very difficult situation in the country, among corruption, political fights and political arrivism has always been a very dangerous limit for the people in trying to fight against the...
Digital Activism - The 4Cs of Social Media...
Global Voices Advocacy cross-posted a great work by Gaurav Mishra, in wich h tryies to set a line in the huge subjective ammount of web 2.0 definitions to state a Social Media Framework. He starts from a 4 level structure, i.e. the 4 Cs of web Partecipation.
Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective_Intelligence are the four elements, different leveles of a gradual evolution in any web...
Iran's electoral campaign turns on Web?
A GV article tells an important story about the electoral campaign in Iran. 2 different candidates are using the web to promote their image and ideas; in particular on the web page of Mir Hussein Mousavi appears a list of 1000 bllogers (here in arabic, translated on the GV article) who are actively supporting him. Iran is the third country in the world for number of blogs, an active partecipation...
April 2009
2 posts
Internet India's Elctions
A GV Report about the numerous internet sites that in India are covering the Elction Campaign, political programs and people coverage.
India’s web citizens are very active about these elections. Bloggers are also debating about the Varun Gandhi controversy and about other general issues on the elections.
Twitter-based revolution in Moldova
Student Protests Are Turning Into A Twitter Revolution In Moldova:
“In the last 48 hours, students from Moldova have been tweeting, trying to rally others into demonstrating against the communists. If you look under the search terms “pman” (stands for Piata Marii Adunari Nationale, a square in Chisinau) or “Chisinau,” you can see the tweets about the demonstration coming in a rapid pace....
March 2009
3 posts
Awesome WebCooperation initiative through books...
A great initiative by Global Voices Online: GlobalVoices Book-Challenge.
The idea is simple but really powerful: becouse of next 23 of April’s UNESCO World Book Day, any blogger wishing to partecipate may read a book about a country or a culture which he/she doesn’t know anything about, writing then a post about it and linking it to the page of the initiative through the comments.
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African Blogging Platform
Maneno is a new blogging platform that promises to offer blogging and communication solutions for bloggers with limited or narrow-bandwith in Sub-Saharan Africa. Maneno is a Swahili word, which means “words. (From Global Voices)
Mobile technology for social change
[From the -About- page of MobileActive.org]
“MobileActive.org is a community of people and organizations using mobile phones for social impact. We are committed to increasing the effectiveness of NGOs around the world who recognize that the 3.5 billion mobile phones provide unprecedented opportunities for organizing, communications, and service and information delivery.
We work together to...
February 2009
5 posts
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Egyptian facebook based freedom movement
This is another great example of how web 2.0 is allowing people to get organized and speak up against dictatorial governaments.
Last year a group have been opened on Facebook, collecting over 65.000 people in less than a month. The group and the movement that started from it are called “6 of April” and organized strikes and parades around Egypt protesting against corruption and...
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Discovering Neweurasia
Another great example of how worldwide blogging organizations are getting born all around the globe.
Neweurasia, as the home page states, aims to “bring together young, committed people from around the world in the hope of offering these young thinkers space to publish their ideas on Central Asia and the Caucasus”.
On the site you can find blogs, news and many interesting kind of...
Underlining the importance of RisingVoices
I already knew this excellent project by Global Voices, but I still didn’t understand the wideness and importance of a such a program.
Rising Voices is a great option for anyone interested in directly helping people to understand the possibilities of blogging and the power of Web 2.0.
Madagascar Crisis
A GV live report on the Madagascar Political Crisis, 2.0 activities and blogosphere reactions.
Blogging in Africa
Africa Blogosphere has been growing a lot lately, but is still not easy to find a good list of links and sources regarding the best blogs and social sites of The Dark Continent.
Here is a very interesting page with a classification of Africa’s most important blog sources, edited by Bachelor’s Degree Online.
GV also reports the 10 top rated African blogs
January 2009
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New BBC Persian Tv Channel →
World Blog Awards →
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AllVoices, the world service on users' reporting →
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Israel Use of Social Media, Gaza Attack →
December 2008
20 posts
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GV Channel on the war in Middle East →
With the rampage of attacks, declarations, news and conversations on the new episodes in Israel and Palestine, this is a very unique window on the blogosphere’s reactions
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Brass Crescent Awards Winners →
The results of the annual Brass Crescent Award, a useful window on valid links about the islamic blogospere.
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Iran's jailed bloggers →
A reportage by global voices
Blogging on Africa
A reportage by GV: asking the Francophone blogosphere why is important to blog about Africa.
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Malawi blogs Award
Also the Malawi blogosphere is getting organized with the first Malawi Web Awards. Here is the announcement and the official nominees.
Also GV pubblished a report about the new Price, here it is.
Gv: Brazil Conversations on police-involved deaths →
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Annual awards for the best writers of the Muslim... →
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Great report on Blogosphere activity in the Arab...
A list of links provided by the Mushlimah Media Watch on dozens of the latest articles involving islamic women and culture. A precious source.
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Best of China Blogs - Wall Street Journal →
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Muslimah Media Watch
The Muslimah Media Watch is a very active group monitoring the web to report any issue about women and islamic culture all around the world. An interesting example of cross-cultural use of the 2.0 tools.
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Greek tension 2.0 →
GV tells us about the 2.0 contents and conversation on the Greek riots.
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When the Avatar prays the Mecca
BBC News tells us about the first Virtual World for Muslims, called the “Muxlim Pal”.
Interviewed, Mohamed El-Fatatry, founder of the service stated:
“We are not a religious site, we are a site that is focused on the lifestyle. […] This is for anyone who is remotely interested in the Muslim culture and the Muslim lifestyle”.
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Global Voices Community
The GVCommunity Home page provides a huge load of links and data, shared items, media contents and SN activities made by the big family of Global Voices.
A unique source of information for everybody is interested on 2.0 Emerging Countries’ Communications.
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Middle East Conversations on the Mumbai blast
By the Italian Global Voices Channel, these are different blog posts of several bloggers around the middle east, all talking about the reasons of the Mumbai Attacks.
A very powerful example of the 2.0 possibilities of directly listening (and dealing with) the Arab world conversations:
Hasan Hujairi (Bahrain)
Seabee (United Arab Emirates)
Rantings of an Arab Chick (United Arab Emirates)
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Zimbabwe Bloggers against state abduction →
A Global Voices Report
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Egyptian blogging on Usaid Cultural Progam →
A report by Global Voices: an Egptian Blogger talks about the Usaid Program, it’s cultural influences and impact on his local library.
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Nytimes window on the International Blogosphere →
Among the international newspaper, The NYTimes has one of the most reliable services of blogging monitoration.
You can find on this section of the official website frequent news on world issues by different international blogs plus articles on World IT dynamics.
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The HuffingtonPost 2.0 Mumbai report →
The Internet-Newspaper provides a wide and deep coverage of the UGC on the Mumbai Attacks. Useful if you need more specific references. Thanks to Nova (paper edition).
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November 2008
3 posts
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World crisis situations on GlobalVoices
Lately the world have been awakened by different dangerous situations, and as always Global Voices has one more time set itself as a landmark in the international blogosphere opinions flow:
Mumbai: these are the latest updates among the many different opinions and commentaries on the terrorist attack.
Update: this is the link for the Global Voices Special Coverage of the Mumbay Blast.
Nigeria:...
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Global Voices Online →
Just the best channel of 2.0 comunication between emerging countries and the west.