Posts about GV Summit from February, 2015
What Would GV Look Like if We Were Starting from Scratch?
This was another question posed to the attendees of the GV Summit. Attendees were split up in different groups to discuss this prompt, and these are some of their ideas....
From the Summit: Unheard Communities and Addressing the Challenge
What voices are missing from the online conversation? During the internal meeting at the GV Summit in Cebu, I asked that very question to the attendees during my Rising Voices...
The Revolution Will Be Illustrated: Notes on Pixel Offensive
The power of images and art as mediums of protest took the center stage during the “The Revolution Will Be Illustrated” session during the second day of the Global Voices...
How the Cebu Print Media Covered the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit
The open internet, freedom of information, the Philippine digital divide, and the promotion of local language use online are some of the issues that captured the attention of the Cebu...
Lingua Summit Discussion notes
PR STRATEGY Need a 360 degree strategy. Must be easy to translate TRAINING Need video guides in English Quick overviews Detailed walkthroughs Translated video guides Wiki docs to be transferred...
The painful fall back from wonderland
After Leila left us fairly early, she wrote us a good-bye e-mail where she mentioned going back to the “real world”. I didn't stop there much. After the craze of...
سيبو:رحلة جد ومرح
صورة لمدينة سيبو التقطتها من نافذة غرفتي كانت الصورة المطبوعة في مخيلتي حول الفلبين تتلخص في كونها دولة اَسوية استوائية تملك شواطئ جميلة،دولة تعاني الفقر ومخلفات سنوات عديدة من الدكتاتورية...
Do We Feed the Trolls? A Fascinating Summit Discussion
At the Global Voices Summit this year, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of experts, though expert for perhaps the wrong reasons: Each person on my panel had...
Joey Ayoub: ‘Providing the Context Is Key in Trying to Convey Empathy’ With Gaza
Global Voices contributor Joey Ayoub is sitting at a Cebu café, browsing wantonly through the morning news on his smartphone. I ask him if it would be a good time to...
Salamat, Cebú: Apuntes sueltos sobre la Cumbre de Medios Ciudadanos de Global Voices
Hace una semana desde que terminó la Cumbre de Medios Ciudadanos de Global Voices en Cebú, Filipinas, a la cual tuve la suerte de asistir. Cuarenta horas de vuelo después,...
