The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010 [1] took place earlier this month at Santiago Public Library [2] in the capital of Chile. Over 200 people from 60 countries attended the summit, which was well covered [3] in the media. Four Rising Voices projects [4] were presented during the two days of the summit.
[5]Nat Bayjay presenting presenting Ceasefire Liberia at the GV Summit. Image by Kowshik Ahmed, CC BY
On the first day of the summit (May 6, 2010) Nat Nyuan Bayjay [6], the project manager of Ceasefire Liberia [7] captivated the audience with his lively presentation. Ceasefire Liberia, a multimedia project, is publishing citizen media reports from the ground to put Liberian Diaspora in touch. Here is a video [8] of his presentation uploaded to YouTube by Jakub Gornicki [9]:
You can read a short summary of the presentation here [10].
[11]Otgonsuren Jargal presenting Nomad Green. Image by Krzysztof Pawliszak/GV. CC BY
Later that day Otgonsuren Jargal presented Nomad Green [12] to an audience which knew little about Mongolia. Nomad Green is training Mongolian citizen journalists how to use social media tools to report on local environmental news in multiple langauges. Here is a short summary [13] of the presentation.
[14]Pablo Flores presenting Blogueando desde la Infancia (Blogging since infancy) project. Image by Adri021. CC BY
On the day 2 of the summit (May 7, 2010) Pablo Flores [15] from Uruguay presented Blogging Since Infancy [16] project. Pablo Flores of Ceibal, the governmental organization in charge of distributing OLPC laptops in Uruguay, organized a series of workshops and a blogging competition to encourage the laptop-toting children taking up social media tools like blogging. Here is a brief summary [17] of the presentation.
[18]Yesenia Corrales presenting Hiperbarrio. Image by Adri012. CC BY
Yesenia Corrales [19] presented HiperBarrio [20], an outreach collective of Colombian bloggers, to the audience. Instead of engaging in violence, these bloggers are publishing history of their community and drawing collaborative maps. Here is a short summary [21] of the presentation.
“As long as you express, we are free human beings.”
Here is another compilation [22] of video snapshots from the summit by Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile [23]:
In our next feature we will publish reactions of some members of the Rising Voices projects, who took part in the summit.