“Let’s remember the creativity that built internet is still with us. It’s the architecture of hope. It’s also about taking back our data (so that no one can erase our content without consent)” - @npub1fczq...vmka 📍 Can we save the internet? #GVSummit2024

“We are all geopolitical actors and we must use that power” - Juke Brandiecq 📍 Can we save the internet? #GVSummit2024 #internet

🌐 Our stage is global, and so is our audience! Join us for the #GVSummit2024 livestream. Let’s connect across borders and amplify underrepresented voices together. 🌍 Tune in here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xIqVOG92b3Q?si=kw53FhHaplZPslqT

The 2nd public day of our #GVSummit2024 is about to start, find your panels: 📌 Can we save the internet? (Regal Main) 📌 Investigative journalism in authoritarian contexts (Durbar Hall)

Global Voices Summit 2024 Schedule

Check out the schedule for Global Voices Summit 2024

“Global Voices is the voice for the muffled cries of the global south.” Zubair Torwali #GVSummit2024

“In Bangladesh artists and rappers showed solidarity with protests against internet shutdowns. Private university students joined public university students’ protests.” Pantha Rahman Reza “Pakistan’s widespread internet shutdowns used as political battleground by governments who see internet as as the only source of information for young people” Annie Zaman ‘Organizing and reporting when the internet goes dark: Protest movements in South Asia panel’ #GVSummit2024

“Security is always the excuse for internet shutdowns in India. Procedures not being followed by government despite Supreme Court decision upholding right to freedom of speech.” Kanav N Saghal ‘Organizing and reporting when the internet goes dark: Protest movements in South Asia’ #GVSummit2024

Learning new skills on how to make it easier to work with data using Open Data Editor with Nikesh Balami at #GVSummit Kathmandu

How to live through authoritarian times? - Foster and support independent media: Shataakshi Verma - Remember to take care of ourselves, remember what is it that make us survive (as activists): Lokman Tsui - Build resilience for democracy. It is not just a matter of media and civic organisations: Filip Stojanovski - Foster and participate in support networks: Arzu Geybulla. #GVSummit2024

“We need to have open conversation based on civic education and understanding of human rights” to combat authoritarianism - Filip Stojanovski #GVSummit