Rising Voices

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Amount: 
$ 244,000
Location: 
Cambridge, Mass.
Over the past two years, Global Voices has introduced readers around the world to the brilliant, funny, insightful and touching voices of bloggers from developing nations. Rising Voices is our new effort to introduce thousands of new developing world bloggers to the world, helping students, journalists, activists and people from rural areas to the blogosphere.
Organization: 
Global Voices, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Link: 
Global Voices Online Rising Voices web site
David Sasaki at PBS Mediashift Idealab
Twitter Link: 
@risingvoices
@ethanZ
@oso
Winner: 
Ethan Zuckerman
Bio: 
Ethan Zuckerman is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His research in the field of information and communication technology for development includes work on telecommunications policy, free and open source software, and citizen media. With Rebecca MacKinnon, he is the cofounder of Global Voices (www.globalvoicesonline.org), an international community of webloggers and citizen journalists. Prior to his work with Berkman and Global Voices, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a volunteer organization that sent technology experts to work with ICT companies in the developing world. He is the former CTO of Tripod.com, a pioneering web site hosting company based in western Massachusetts, where he lives and works. He serves on the board of several nonprofit projects that focus on technology and social change. His personal blog, “My Heart’s in Accra” is located at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog.