These posts are from the GV Innovation Awards, a 2013 project previously hosted at innovation.globalvoices.org, which was merged into this site in 2025.
You can read the Innovation Grant Guidelines and GV Innovation Awards – project updates and 2013 launch date! for a summary of the overall project.
Below are the posts from the Innovation Awards website, which are a mix of project proposals at the start, then project updates more recently.
You can also check out the special categories for GV Books and VideoActivo, two innovation projects who's website posts were also imported into this community site.
Posts about GV Innovation Awards from January, 2012
GV Pig Latin
Well, this isn't really an Innovative Award proposal or anything similar, it's a semi-joke and semi-crazy idea to have just for fun. How about adding new lingua sites for artificial...
Online activism tool, focus on aborigenous rights and women's place in largely underknown cultures
Ok, to the title is actually an attempt to summarize the three ideas I had. Here we go in a more detailed fashion :) 1. Online activism tool. This actually...
Mobile!
Hello everyone! We are sort of all aware that mobiles (smartphones+tablets) are invading the world, and are/will be changing the way we pick and read news, interact, comment, crowdsource, form...
GV – Filming our posts
My proposal is referred to how to increase our presence and use of video. The intention is to create Global Voices own videos through agreements with small independent video producers...
GV Music
How about doing to Music what we have done to Social Media. I am thinking of a GV Music where authors/editors can publish reviews for underground bands from their countries, ...
Proofreaders…
Another old idea that I think is very important: We need a group of people to assist the editors of different regions in proofreading our posts. I think this will...
A place for voices describing the world's cultures
This is an idea I’ve proposed already. Some of you might remember a bit of this: I proposed to devote a part of the site to the posts that we...
Social News Gathering
This idea's aim is twofold: improve our news gathering and better engage readers. Global Voices would provide a platform (open to everyone who has a verifiable email) that allows the following:...
micro-proposal: A wiki for online activism and social media around the world
Premise: I really want this idea to come true, but sadly I don't have enough time to make it happen. If anyone is interested in this idea and pick it...
Proposal: GV media publishing
Since its inception in December 2004, GV published a huge amount of material on a variety of topics, countries and languages. To date, just the GV English sites alone total...
