A global anti-censorship network: GV08 Summit Day One, Session One

When we went out to a bar on Friday night for a well-deserved drink here in Budapest, all my newfound friends and I could talk about were the various issues, many of them deeply moving, that came out on the first day of the summit. For someone like me attending a Global Voices summit for the first time, the first two days have been educative, eye-opening, and stimulating. In this piece I attempt to briefly recount the opening remarks, and describe the first panel, on efforts toward a global anti-censorship network. I owe gratitude to Jillian York, Renata Avila and Juliana Rotich, who live-blogged various parts of the opening sessions. Opening Remarks Day One opened with Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founders of Global Voices Online, narrating the background to how Global Voices came into being. The opening session... [read full story]