Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008

Global Voices Online, a non-profit media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has just posted details of its annual summit to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on 27-28 June 2008. Given the role the Internet is albeit slowly starting to play in Armenia, the summit should be very interesting indeed.

The Global Voices Summit provides an opportunity for us to share the knowledge in our dynamic global community with bloggers, activists, students and media professionals. The meeting will explore important developments in citizen media spearheaded by people outside North America and Western Europe and investigate how the growing number of people distributing information globally can help affect lasting social change.

The first day of the Summit, hosted by Global Voices’ Advocacy section, will be devoted to discussions about censorship and the challenges facing free expression online. The second day will highlight cutting-edge applications of Web 2.0 on electoral campaigns in emerging democracies; tackle issues of translation and the idea of the world wide web as a multi-lingual space; and showcase citizen media solutions in emergency situations. The day two program will also include a hands-on workshop in building activism tools using free, web-based services such as Google maps, Twitter and online video-sharing sites.

More details are posted on the Global Voices Online site.