Global Voices: Citizen Media Summit 2012

The Global Voices Summit convenes bloggers, activists and technologists for public discussions and workshops about the rise of online citizen media movements worldwide. There will also be a private gathering of Global Voices contributors preceding the Summit. We hope to see you in Nairobi!

We're delighted to announce the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2012! Our gathering takes place this year in Nairobi, Kenya on July 2-3, 2012, in partnership with Nairobi's iHub.

Global Voices is a community of more than 500 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.

The Rise of Online Citizen Media

The theme for this year's Global Voices Summit is the cataclysmic rise of online citizen media over the past years, and especially in 2011. Are we a global movement now? And what do we wish to see happen next?

Global Voices Summits

Global Voices convenes a biennial Summit which brings together contributing members with a wider community of global bloggers, technologists, scholars, journalists and others interested in sharing ideas on developments in online citizen media spearheaded by people around the world. Previous Summits have taken place in London, New Delhi, Budapest, and Santiago.

Meeting face to face

The Summit also provides an opportunity for contributors to Global Voices - who live all over the world - to meet in person and discuss the future direction of the organization in an internal (closed) two-day meeting.

For more information see the website of the event: http://summit2012.globalvoicesonline.org/