...My heart's in AccraEthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international developmentGlobal Voices and collective decisionmaking- June 29, 2008 How do 70 opinionated people from around the world make up their collective minds Easy. They use an opinion spectrometer. After a day-long brainstorming meeting about human rights issues online and a two-day conference, the Citizen Media Summitt, we&8217;re now spending two more days discussing the future of our collective project. That means passionate, difficult conversations ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/29/global-voices-and-collective-decisionmaking/ China, bias, misunderstanding- June 28, 2008 In putting together the Global Voices summit, the program sometimes ends up changing to reflect recent events. We added a panel a few weeks ago focused on the Chinese blogosphere and issues of bias, misunderstanding and miscommunication. It&8217;s become very clear to those of us who watch blogopshere conversations that there&8217;s a great deal of ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/28/china-bias-misunderstanding/ GV Summit: Elections and citizen media- June 28, 2008 If you&8217;re not with us here in Budapest, please join us on the video stream. All the coverage is archived, which means that if you&8217;ve got a very dull weekend planned, you could spend at least 20 hours with us. If you&8217;ve got a bit less time, but read Spanish, El Pais is here to ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/28/gv-summit-elections-and-citizen-media/ Rising Voices at the Budapest Summit- June 28, 2008 I&8217;ve spent the last two days as the MC of the Global Voices meetings in Budapest. It&8217;s a deeply rewarding activity, as it means I get to be part of every conversation and listen in on every discussion. But it&8217;s exhausting, and has been extremely sweaty work, as Budapest is going through a heat wave. ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/28/rising-voices-at-the-budapest-summit/ A quick update from the GV summit- June 27, 2008 Sorry for my comparative silence, friends. We&8217;re alive and running at the Global Voices 2008 summit here in Budapest. There&8217;s a hotel conference room packed with Global Voices authors and activists as well as with journalists from around Hungary and throughout Central Europe. And there are dozens of folks covering the event via liveblogging and ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/27/a-quick-update-from-the-gv-summit/ Global Voices Summit: The Open Net Initiative and internet censorship- June 26, 2008 We&8217;re off and running at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest, Hungary. Depending on how you&8217;re counting, this is a two day or a five day meeting. Two days of the meeting - tomorrow and Saturday - are open to the general public and will be a conversation first on free speech online, then on ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/26/global-voices-summit-the-open-net-initiative... PDF: Citizen Media - left, right, left, right- June 23, 2008 I&8217;m not much of a political blogger, unlike many of the folks at the Personal Democracy Forum conference. (Okay, that&8217;s not true. I just write about African politics, not US issues, which puts me decidedly in the minority in this room.) So I wasn&8217;t familiar with either Jane Hamsher, of Firedog Lake, a left-wing blog, ...http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/06/23/pdf-citizen-media-left-right-left-right/ |