This week I will talk about Global Voices Advocacy..Did anyone heard about it before?? I myself never heard about it before!!! Global Voices Advocacy is a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists throughout the developing world that is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online.
The purpose of this network is to raise awareness of online freedom of speech issues, and to share tools and tactics from activists and bloggers facing censorship on different parts of the globe. Moreover, Global Voices Advocacy is not only provide support to its members but it also produce educational guides about anonymous blogging, anti-censorship campaigns, and online organizing. This network collaborates with software developers, activists, and bloggers to design new and more appropriate tools to protect our rights on the internet.
The director of Global Voices Advocacy is Sami ben Gharbia, a Tunisian free speech advocate and blogger based in the Netherlands. Global Voices Advocacy will publishes daily news updates on freedom of speech struggles on the internet worldwide. Besides that, everything on this website is free for republication in both commercial and non-commercial media with attribution. What do you think of this website?? Feel free to comment about it.. =)
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Global Voices Advocacy official website, About, [Online], Retrieved 3 March 2009,
I also never heard of it before. haha. i think bloggers have to aware of online cencorships as well although we are protecting by Global Voices Advocacy.
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