{{short description|Non-profit organization of grassroots citizen writers, bloggers, and digital activists}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox organization | name = Global Voices | logo = Global Voices wide logo.svg | logo_size = | founded = 2004, Berkman Center for Internet & Society | region_served = Global | type = Nonprofit foundation | focus = Journalism | headquarters = Amsterdam, Netherlands | coordinates = {{coord}} | website = [https://globalvoices.org/ globalvoices.org] }}
'''Global Voices''' is an international community-based organisation, consisting of writers, bloggers, translators, journalists, researchers, digital activists and experts that aim to translate and report on what is being said in citizen media worldwide. It started as a nonprofit project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School that grew out of an international bloggers' meeting held in December 2004. The organization was founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. In 2008, it became an independent non-profit organisation incorporated in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
==Objectives== When Global Voices was formed, Its objectives were: first, to enable and empower a community of "bridge bloggers" who "can make a bridge between two languages, or two cultures."<ref>{{cite news|last=Boyd|first=Clark|title=Global voices speak through blogs|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4414247.stm|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2 January 2012|date=6 April 2005}}</ref> Second to develop tools and resources to make achieving the first objective more effective. It has maintained a working relationship with mainstream media. Reuters, for example, gave Global Voices unrestricted grants from 2006 to 2008.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sweney|first=Mark|title=Reuters partners in comment blog|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/apr/13/reuters.pressandpublishing|work=The Guardian|access-date=2 January 2012|location=London|date=13 April 2006}}</ref> For its contribution to innovation in journalism, Global Voices was granted the 2006 Knight-Batten Grand Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.j-lab.org/projects/knight-batten-awards-for-innovations-in-journalism/|title=J-Lab|publisher=J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism|access-date=2016-06-28}}</ref> Global Voices was also recognized in 2009 with the University of Denver's Anvil of Freedom award for contributions to journalism and democracy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://estlow.org/previous-anvil-of-freedom-winners/|title=Previous Anvil of Freedom Winners|publisher=Estlow International Center for Journalism & New Media|access-date=2016-06-28|archive-date=15 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815151747/http://estlow.org/previous-anvil-of-freedom-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The organization stated its goals {{as of|2012|lc=y}}: *"Call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens' media around the world by linking to text, photos, podcasts, video and other forms of grassroots citizens' media." *"Facilitate the emergence of new citizens' voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world". *"Advocate for freedom of expression ... and protect the rights of citizen journalists".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://globalvoices.org/about/ |title=What is Global Voices|website= globalvoices.org|access-date= 1 August 2012}}</ref>
Global Voices achieves these goals through four key initiatives:
'''Newsroom''': The multilingual newsroom team reports on people whose voices and experiences are rarely seen in mainstream media.<ref name="About">{{cite web |title=What Is Global Voices? |url=https://globalvoices.org/about/ |website=Global Voices |access-date=6 February 2026 |language=en}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by3|from this source=yes}}</ref> Global Voices has a team of regional editors that aggregates and selects conversations from a variety of blogospheres, with a particular focus on non-Western and underrepresented voices. Contributors are volunteers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globalvoices.org/volunteer/ |title=Global Voices · Participate|website=Global Voices|language=en|access-date=2019-01-30}}</ref>
'''Translation''': The Lingua volunteers make stories available in dozens of languages to ensure that language is not a barrier to understanding.<ref name="About"/>
'''Advocacy''': The Advox team defends free speech online, paying special attention to legal, technical and physical threats to people using the internet to speak out in the public interest.<ref name="About"/>
'''Empowerment''': Rising Voices provides training and mentorship to local underrepresented communities who want to tell their own stories using participatory media tools.<ref name="About"/>
Global Voices has a community blog for Global Voices contributors to share stories. It also has special projects from time to time such as the Civic Media Observatory.
'''Services:''' Expert translation, editorial, and mentorship services from a global community, fuelling the Global Voices non-profit mission.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Global Voices Services · Expert services fuelling GV's community non-profit mission. |url=https://services.globalvoices.org/ |access-date=2026-03-19 |website=Global Voices Services |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Summits==
Global Voices has organized biannual summits and bloggers meetings for their virtual community to meet face-to-face.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globalvoices.org/about/annual-summits/|title=Global Voices · Summits|website=Global Voices|language=en|access-date=2025-02-06}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Global Voices Summits |- ! Summit ! Place ! Date |- |[https://globalvoices.org/about/annual-summits/global-voices-2005-london-summit/ Summit 2005] |London, United Kingdom |December 10, 2005 |- |[https://globalvoices.org/about/annual-summits/global-voices-delhi-summit-december-2006/ Summit 2006] |Delhi, India |December 16, 2006 |- |[https://summit08.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2008] |Budapest, Hungary |June 27-28, 2008 |- |[https://summit2010.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2010] |Santiago, Chile |May 6-7, 2010 |- |[https://summit2012.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2012] |Nairobi, Kenya |July 2-3, 2012 |- |[https://summit2015.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2015] |Cebu, Philippines |January 24-25, 2015 |- |[https://summit2017.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2017] |Colombo, Sri Lanka |December 2-3, 2017 |- |[https://asiasummit2019.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2019] |Taipei, Taiwan |June 2, 2019 |- |[https://summit2024.globalvoices.org/ Summit 2024] |Kathmandu, Nepal |December 6-7, 2024 |}
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Global Voices Bloggers Meetings |- ! Meeting ! Place ! Date |- |Arab Bloggers Meeting 2008 |Beirut, Lebanon |2008 |- |[https://globalvoices.org/about/annual-summits/beirut-arab-bloggers-summit-2009/ Arab Bloggers Meeting 2009] |Beirut, Lebanon |December 7-12, 2009 |- |Arab Bloggers Meeting 2011 |Tunisia |2011 |- |[https://ab14.globalvoices.org/english Arab Bloggers Meeting 2014] |Amman, Jordan |January 20-23, 2014 |}
==Notable people== <!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---> *Marianne Díaz Hernández *Arzu Geybullayeva *Omid Memarian *Nanjala Nyabola *Malka Older *Raymond Palatino
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscatinline}} * {{Official website|https://globalvoices.org/}}
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