To India and Indonesia with inkpot…
On December 3, 2006 I am going to be India, the world’s largest democracy country, for the Global Voices 2006 Summit. The previous one was held in London at Reuters’s world headquarter. This fast-growing citizen’s media project, in brief, was founded by two Harvard research fellows and being contributed by volunteer-writers from around the world to make unheard voices of grass-root communities be heard. The project was sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Presently, Global Voices Online is an alliance of global media company, Reuters.
As a contributing-writer for Global Voices Online for about a year, it has been an amazing experience to see how people from all over the world use online tools for collaboration works. And it has been tremendously important to me to work and learn with experienced people from diverse culture. For some reasons, the innovative citizen’s media project has, so far, done some excellent works to bring voices, essentially outside North America and the West, to the world to listening to the rhyme. However more works need to be done. And in this regard, more innovation will need to be carried out. By doing so, a series of discussion among people involve will be vital to the core work. Technology does not change the way people live. It is the way people use technology, more specifically tool, to shape the heart of the world.
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