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• Listening to Global Voices

  j_ling 12:36 am on August 20, 2010 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: collaboration (2), Global Voices, innovation, journalism (3), TED (2), women (3), world (5)

  I recently attended a round­table hosted by the Asia Pacific Foun­da­tion of Canada for a 25@25 dis­cus­sion. The dis­cus­sion emerged from the 25@25 video com­pe­ti­tion as a forum for par­tic­i­pants and part­ners to share their expe­ri­ences and exam­ine future ways to engage youth in pro­mot­ing Canada-Asia relations.

  The video com­pe­ti­tion was a huge suc­cess and what I thought to be a really cre­ative way of engag­ing youth to think about issues about Canada-relations. The issues that came out of the con­test, har­ness the col­lec­tive capa­bil­ity and genius that would spur growth and research direc­tion of the foun­da­tion. Some of the themes that emerged included: Peo­ple as a resource, rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the media, self-identity and green tech­nol­ogy exchanges.

  “Capa­bil­i­ties to develop new kinds of rela­tion­ships, sense impor­tant devel­op­ments, add value and turn nascent net­worked knowl­edge into com­pelling value are becom­ing the bread and but­ter of wealth cre­ation and success.”

  - Wiki­nomics, Don Tapscott

  On a another level, it was a great learn­ing oppor­tu­nity for me to step into an area and net­work of which I was not really con­nected to, all because I stepped out of my net­work cir­cle. It reminded me a great TED video by Ethan Zuck­er­man on Lis­ten­ing to Global Voices. He spoke about how even though the web con­nects the whole world, we really end up being stuck in our own web bub­ble rather than lis­ten­ing to what the world has to share.

  So in the spirit of col­lab­o­ra­tion, here are my favourite sites on lis­ten­ing to global voices:

  1) OpenIDEO: An online plat­form where peo­ple col­lab­o­rate to design bet­ter for social good. It’s a won­der­ful dynamic resource on tack­ling global resources and I’m going to sub­mit a solu­tion to one of their prob­lems soon!

  2) World Pulse: A global net­work that broad­casts and unites women’s voices from all over to cre­ate a pow­er­ful voice for change. What I love about this is not only is it a print and web mag­a­zine but it’s also an inter­ac­tive com­mu­nity newswire, PulseWire, where women can col­lab­o­rate and con­nect to solve global problems.

  3) Global Voices: An inter­na­tional com­mu­nity of blog­gers who report on dif­fer­ent global issues with top­ics rang­ing from arts to pol­i­tics. It’s an amaz­ing resource and my fav fea­ture is the dif­fer­ent lan­guages that you can read the web­site in. (I occa­sion­ally flip the switch over to Indone­sian, just cause! And it’s so inter­est­ing to read the same arti­cle both in Eng­lish and in another language!)

  4) paper.li: This is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent than the above three plat­forms as it really is more a snap­shot of the things/links that you tweet about, but I love the cre­ative for­mat and I find it super inter­est­ing the way it picks up on the dif­fer­ent things I’m browse through online. Below is a snap­shot of what it looks like and I thought I’ll share this one just for fun!

  

  So..what global voices have you been lis­ten­ing to?

   

• I have something to say

  j_ling 7:47 pm on June 13, 2009 | 4 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: change (10), Global Voices, journalism (3), motivation (4)

  One of my BIGGEST sources of moti­va­tion of start­ing this blog, (besides major encour­age­ment and help in get­ting this blog up and run­ning, from one of the most incred­i­ble peo­ple in my life, Andre) is a this post by Ethan Zuckerman.

  His post walks us through a Lok­man Tsui’s PHD Dis­ser­ta­tion on Global Voices and the peo­ple behind it. He takes us through three mod­els of jour­nal­ism, essen­tially, how we need to move away from the cur­rent mod­els and towards objec­tiv­ity as a key jour­nal­is­tic value towards HOSPITALITY.

  Lok­man pro­poses that “the inter­net has chal­lenged us to rethink and re-imagine jour­nal­ism and democ­racy” and we have not yet done a good job fully uti­liz­ing its poten­tial. If we then com­pare media to pol­i­tics, where polit­i­cal democ­ra­cies have func­tioned best where they rep­re­sent a broad range of inter­ests, opin­ions and peo­ple, why then, can’t media be rep­re­sen­ta­tive and as hos­pitable, offer­ing a space for conversation?

  ***

  “Why has hos­pi­tal­ity slipped away? Is it because we’re expe­ri­enc­ing the false inti­macy of a glob­al­ized world? Lok­man sug­gests that we’re see­ing a para­dox of choice emerg­ing online — as we’ve got more choices, we often make deci­sions that iso­late and cocoon our­selves. Part of this may come from the biggest way in which we iso­late our­selves — we restrict the flow of peo­ple across national bor­ders to a much greater extent than we restrict finan­cial or cul­tural flows. Per­haps we’ve become bet­ter at acco­mo­dat­ing a person’s CDs or movies, but less good at acco­mo­dat­ing the per­son her­self.
  

  This means that hos­pi­tal­ity is a duty and an oblig­a­tion, but that we shouldn’t pre­tend that we can pre­vent exclu­sion from some spaces.”

  - Ethan Zuk­er­man, Lok­man Tsui on hos­pi­tal­ity, jour­nal­ism and Global Voices.

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  All that being said, I would hardly imag­ine to call myself a jour­nal­ist, but, I, at the very least, am going to do my part to offer this s p a c e for con­ver­sa­tion, and share my opin­ions.  I truly believe that hav­ing our ideas out there is becom­ing increas­ingly impor­tant in a con­nected world. So here’s a lit­tle back­ground on myself and what I plan to use this s p a c e for.

  I have some­thing to say. Do you?

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