presentation by
Georgia Popplewell
Managing Director, Global
Voices

African Media Leadership
Conference
Accra, Sep 2009

Embracing Social
Networking and
Citizen Media
Platforms:
Meeting the People
Where They Are - A
Case Study, Global
Voices

Embracing Social
Networking and
Citizen Media
Platforms:
Meeting the People
Where They Are - A
Case Study, Global
Voices

www.globalvoicesonline.org

Why Global
Voices?
so much content!
l’anglais n’est pas la seule langue
sur l’internet
lack of context
credibility—who can we trust?

Why Global
Voices?
so much content!
l’anglais n’est pas la seule
langue sur l’internet
lack of context
credibility—who can we trust?

Why Global
Voices?
so much content!
l’anglais n’est pas la seule
langue sur l’internet
lack of context
credibility—who can we trust?

Why Global
Voices?
so much content!
l’anglais n’est pas la seule
langue sur l’internet
lack of context
credibility—who can we trust?

Why Global
Voices?
so much content!
l’anglais n’est pas la seule
langue sur l’internet
lack of context
credibility—who can we trust?

GLOBAL VOICES ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

GLOBAL VOICES ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
Washington DC
Trinidad and Tobago
Netherlands Taiwan
who
New York/Berlin/Puerto Rico
knows?
Ukraine, Prague,
Zambia, Bolivia,
Kazakhstan,
Armenia,
Trinidad,
Colombia, Japan,
Indonesia, Hong
Kong,
Madagascar,
Brazil etc
All over the world

image by: droïd

Some Global Voices
facts
leading citizen media
newsroom
active community of 200;
extended network of
800-1000
300,000 unique visitors/
month

Some Global Voices
facts used by Reuters, BBC,
content
NY Times, Al Jazeera, U.N.
contributors interviewed by
major media
often in Technorati top 100
blogs
site based on Open Source
blogging platform WordPress

Some Global Voices
facts
supported by combination of
foundation funding,
commissioned work &
leveraging of expertise of
community
used widely by journalists

www.globalvoicesonline.org

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org

rising.globalvoicesonline.org

advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org

“For the the Internet to fulfill its
most ambitious promises, we need
to recognize translation as one of
the core challenges to an open,
shared and collectively governed
internet. Many of us share a vision
of the Internet as a place where the
good ideas of any person in any
country can influence thought and
opinion around the world....

“This vision can only be realized if
we accept the challenge of a
polyglot internet and build tools
and systems to bridge and translate
between the hundreds of languages
represented online.”
- Ethan Zuckerman, “The Polyglot Internet”

citizen media and
social networking
platforms are a
medium, not the
message (mostly)

there is knowledge
outside the
newsroom

local, personal
networks matter

people want to be
recognised for
their work

beyond the digital
divide, there’s the
participation gap

the internet may
be
most useful for
communicating
across borders

people connect
over
commonalities

Georgia Popplewell
Managing Director
Global Voices
web
www.globalvoicesonline.org
e-mail
georgiap@globalvoicesonline.org
twitter
@georgiap

Some Global Voices
facts used by Reuters, BBC,
content
NY Times, Al Jazeera, U.N.
contributors interviewed by
major media
often in Technorati top 100
blogs
site based on Open Source
blogging platform WordPress

Thank You/Merci/Obrigado/‫/ﺷﻜﺮﺍ ﻝﻙ‬Meda Ase