Global Voices

Click on the image to download this guide as a pdf I'm pleased to announce that we have release the second Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Cross-posting for Advocacy, An Introduction to Effective Social Media Integration. This second guide by Global Voices Advocacy offers us a brief introduction to how to use cross-posting for online advocacy campaign. It reviews different web 2.0 tools, showcasing successful examples where cross-posting has been used for advocacy. The guide also includes the pros and co.
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Below is the interview I had with Jillian York: This week's Blogger of the Week is none other than Global Voices Advocacy Director Sami Ben Gharbia, known for his dedication to the fight against oppression and censorship. Sami is originally from Tunisia, but has been based in The Netherlands since 1998. He blogs at fikra فكرة. JY: Tell us about yourself. SBG: I started blogging in French, then, after few years, I decided to blog in Arabic and cover interesting stories that deal with digi.
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يسعى دليل "تقنيات الدفاع، الجيل الثاني للأنترنت" (تطبيقات في خدمة الدفاع الرقمي) إلى التعريف بأنجع التقنيات و التطبيقات التي يمكن استخدامها من قبل نشطاء الأنترنت - و غيرهم ممن يريد التعرف على هذا الميدان- كجزء من حملاتهم الدفاعية على الشبكة العنكبوتية. و على عكس دليل "دون من .
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Creativity & Interfaces Related posts (automagically generated): July 3, 2008 -- An Introduction to Digital Activism June 12, 2008 -- النظام التونسي محاصر على الأنترنت و سلاحه الوحيد هو الحجب September 17, 2007 -- المغاربة يكتشفون علاجا ضد الرشوة September 3, 2007 -- من أجل شبكة عالمية لمكافحة الرقابة على الأنترنت .
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Here is my latest article about censorship In Tunisia for Global Voices Advocacy. Tunisia: More than just censorship Three more blogs have been blocked in Tunisia this week. These blogs, Mochagheb (Disturber), Ennaqed (The Critic) and Place Mohamed Ali have all been particularly active in providing news of the struggle of The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), and especially about the latest social unrest in the southwestern phosphate mining region of Gafsa, where two people have been killed.
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I'm in the process of updating the design of the new template and I really hope you like it. Click on the links below to view my recent blog posts. Just thought I would let you guys know I can be found on Global Voices Advocacy, on Nawaat, twitter, flickr, youtube and facebook. I will attend a conference for Arab bloggers in Beirut during the next week, then I think I'll head to South Africa for Highway Africa Conference 2008 and of course the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI). So I'll try to live b.
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لقد تعرضت في تدوينة سابقة إلى دليل دون من أجل قضية! الصادر عن قسم الدفاع عن الشبكة التابع لمنظمة أصوات عالمية و كيف أننا في أمس الحاجة إلى ترجمة مثل هذه الأدبيات المهتمة بشؤون التدوين و الصحافة المواطنة إلى اللغة العربية التي تشهد فقرا في هذا المجال. و يسعدني أن أعلمكم أن هذ�.
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Global Voices Advocacy is pleased to announce the translation into French of its second guide Blog for a Cause! thanks to Claire Ulrich from Global Voices en Français. Blog for a Cause! has already been translated into Spanish; the translation into Arabic, Chinese and Bengali is on the way. The guide outlines easy-to-follow tips on how to use blogs as part of campaigns against injustice and features successful examples of advocacy blogs from around the world. It is divided into five sections: .
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Copyright © 2008 Sami Ben Gharbia Blog est censuré en Tunisie; cliquez sur http://3.fartattou.com pour accéder au blog miroir. This post has been written for Global Voices The Free Fouad campaign has organized and carried out “Fouad’s Week”, during which bloggers were invited to republish one of Fouad’s posts on their blogs and to embrace “We Are All Fouads” as a slogan. This week-long event marked two months since the dean of the Saudi bloggers, Fouad Alfarhan, was arrested o.
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Copyright © 2008 Sami Ben Gharbia Blog est censuré en Tunisie; cliquez sur http://3.fartattou.com pour accéder au blog miroir. لنفترض أنك أردت أن تنشأ مدونة من أجل الدفاع عن قضية ما، كالمطالبة بتحرير مدون اعتقل بسبب آرائه، أو من أجل حماية البيئة من التلوث و التغيّر المناخي أو قصد التنديد بسياسة الحجب و الرقابة على الأنترنت،.
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Copyright © 2008 Sami Ben Gharbia Blog est censuré en Tunisie; cliquez sur http://3.fartattou.com pour accéder au blog miroir. على ضوء التغطية التي حظيت بها خارطة حجب المواقع العالمية و خدمات الواب 2.0 أنشر هنا الحوار الذي أجرته معي جولي توملين -Julie Tomlin- نائبة رئيس تحرير مجلة "UK Press Gazette" البريطانية المختصة في شؤون الصحافة و الإع�.
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Copyright © 2008 Sami Ben Gharbia Blog est censuré en Tunisie; cliquez sur http://3.fartattou.com pour accéder au blog miroir. Based on Hamed Saber's "Access Flickr" Firefox extension, which enables users to circumvent the filter currently in effect in Iran and in few other countries that block Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website, another Iranian developer, MohammadR, has released "FreeAccess Plus!", a nifty extension that turns Firefox into a proxy that bypasses censorship on popula.
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Rising Voices, la filiale de Global Voices consacrée à l’action sur le terrain, lance son second appel à candidatures pour une nouvelle tranche de micro-financements de projets. Les bourses sont d’un montant maximum de US$ 5 000 et sont destinées à doter des initiatives qui participent à la promotion des nouveaux médias. Les candidats devront dans l’idéal proposer des projets détaillés et innovants permettant de diffuser les techniques des nouveaux médias en ligne dans des comm.
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