💡 Curious about building solutions for the Global South? 🌏 Join the livestream of #GVSummit2024 and learn from the experts shaping the future of activism and storytelling. 📺 Details & link:
Can we save the internet? #GVSummit2024 “Communities like Global Voices have a role. They need to be interlinked and build on each other. Need for a public square.” Brian Hioe “We should stand and fight on places like twitter with practical intent… Hope is possible… Practical solidarity is essential… The creativity has not gone. We should be everywhere and share our experiences.” Asterisk Masouras
Can we save the internet? #GVSummit2024 “In 2004, we started GV to connect, listen to each other, build bridges and cafes of dialogue.” Rebecca McKinnon “We need to stop being observers and put on the hat of learner and activist. The internet is a place where we can regroup.” Juke Carolina Bransiecq
“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 image
“We are all geopolitical actors and we must use that power” - Juke Brandiecq 📍 Can we save the internet? #GVSummit2024 #internet image
🌐 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 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