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Nov 27, 2006

"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside." --Dag Hammarskjold

Enabling Citizen-to-Citizen Conversation

Based out of Harvard University, Global Voices is a recent online project that is aggregating and translating hundreds of blogs and podcasts from nearly every country in the world, creating an international citizens' media portal. "Our job is to amplify these voices coming out of the developing world and help people get their voices into the mainstream media," said cofounder Ethan Zuckerman. There is food blogging from Panama about organic corn farms, writing from China about censorship, and posts from a biking trip from the United States to the Patagonian tip of South America. Contributors to the site say it offers a variety of opinions and slices of life that go unseen in the traditional news media. It facilitates a conversation with citizen talking to citizen, without governments or mass media in between.