Global Voices Online: The world is talking. Are you ready to listen?
Global Voices is an international effort to diversify the conversation taking place online by involving speakers from around the world, and developing tools, institutions and relationships to help make these voices heard.
BlogNashville: We are truly in the early days, because only now is technology cheap enough and bandwidth (sort of) sufficiently available for many more folks to join the global conversation. But we need to ask ourselves a bunch of questions. For example, will Draconian copyright laws will stifle people's ability to make their media available? Do all that many other people want to read, listen to or watch what we create? Will cable and phone companies, moving quickly to create a broadband duopoly in data services, make today's version of media consolidation seem tame by comparison -- with the obvious risks to freedom of expression? While the cost is dropping for creating media, will the tools will get sufficiently easy to use for truly average folks, as opposed to early adopters like us who will try anything just to see what happens? And so on.
