Global Voices · Local perspectives for a global audience
The Global Voices Summit is an international gathering on digital media, knowledge, and activism from a Global Majority perspective. Join us at the Hotel Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 6-7, for two days of connection, collaboration and conversation with journalists, activists, technologists, and others from around the world.
How India’s increasing online scams are threatening the digital ...
Nov 10, 2023 · The launch of the Digital India campaign in 2015 marked the beginning of a digital revolution that has profoundly transformed India's socio-economic environment. From the shift to online classrooms to the widespread adoption of digital transactions for everyday shopping, many Indians now favour the convenience of digital payments. India has also taken the lead in online transactions as per ...
Meet the Filipino Scientist Who Invented the Videophone in 1954
On March 30, 2016, the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) posted on Facebook a photo from 1954 of Filipino engineer Gregorio Y. Zara demonstrating his latest invention: a two-way television telephone, or videophone, patented as a “photo phone signal separator network.”. The post quickly became popular especially ...
Twitter Space: What’s next for the Aragalaya movement in Sri Lanka?
Dec 18, 2022 · Global Voices launched a Twitter Space on Thursday, August 4, to discuss the political unrest in Sri Lanka from March to July 2022, the nation's economic crisis, and the pro-democracy Aragalaya movement.. Find part one of the recording here and part two here.. The Twitter Space was moderated by Global Voices’ South Asia Editor Rezwan from Dhaka, Bangladesh and assisted by GV’s Associate ...
The USSR's legacy 30 years on - Global Voices
Oct 7, 2021 · The USSR's legacy 30 years on. Image by Giovana Fleck, used with permission. December 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a country that lasted 79 years and covered about one sixth of the earth. Fifteen independent states have emerged from it, as well as a growing list of unrecognized ...
Chile: The Legacy of the 1960 Earthquake in Valdivia
Feb 28, 2010 · On May 22, 1960, the 9.5 magnitude earthquake struck the epicenter near the city of Cañete. However, Valdivia was the hardest hit locality with nearly 40% of its building destroyed and leaving close to 20,000 homeless. Many current users of citizen media are too young to have experienced the 1960 quake, but some like Mauro Barrientos ...
A journey into African music · Global Voices
This also includes the state of African music, in a world recovering from COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on African artists or the music culture in different communities. A journey in African music was conceptualized by Global Voices Sub-Saharan African editors, Nwachukwu Egbunike and Njeri Wangari. Both, being poets, perfectly understand ...
What is red-tagging and why it is dangerous in the Philippines?
Apr 27, 2023 · Human rights defenders in the Philippines have cried foul over the restoration of the PHP 10 billion (USD 178.56 million) budget for a government task force known for red-tagging activists and civil society organisations. The bicameral committee has decided to allot the sum in 2023 for the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite calls to defund and ...
Kyrgyzstan’s YouTube sensation, D Billions, kicks off its global ...
Jun 9, 2023 · On June 1, the Kyrgyz musical group D Billions, specializing in producing songs for small children on YouTube, hosted its first concert in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. The concert was long awaited given the group’s global fame and popularity, thanks to its whooping 31 billion total views on YouTube. It was organized on International Children’s Day and kickstarted a …
The pioneers of Nigeria’s Igbo highlife music · Global Voices
Jun 8, 2022 · Oliver de Coque, born as Oliver Sunday Akanite (1947-2008), was a talented musician and guitarist with over 70 recorded albums.De Coque was trained by Piccolo, a Congolese guitarist living in Nigeria.His music style is characterized by all the elements of highlife but with a flair with the guitar. In fact, de Coque made the guitar-based highlife a dominant feature of this genre of music.