Posts about Rising Voices

First “Mini Summit” with Global Voices Latin America

  September 7, 2015

This post was originally written in Spanish by Laura Vidal.  We've all wanted to relive the wonderful moments from the community meetings at each Summit that the Latin America team got the idea to recreate them virtually. We've been inspired by the GV Face series and questions that always come up in...

Global Voices Partners with The Innovation Station

  August 7, 2015

Global Voices is partnering with a new project out of the Netherlands, an online TV project called the Innovation Station, or TIS.tv. Backed in part by our long-time partner Hivos, the goals of the Innovation Station are to mix social and technological innovation, encourage diverse views and trigger a dialogue and inspire people...

The History of Rising Voices Microgrants

July 1, 2015

Did you know Rising Voices has had 10 microgrant competitions over the past 8 years? Did you know that we have received 4075 applications over this time period? In total, we have funded and mentored 57 different projects around the world.

From the Summit: Unheard Communities and Addressing the Challenge

  February 27, 2015

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 presentation. I asked them to think about what communities are not very well represented on the Internet. We asked this...