Summit Updates
Russian Internet Policy: Leaning Towards Censorship
As part of the 2015 GV Summit, we invited our community members and partners to write essays that explain and illuminate the real-world effects of an Internet-related policy on citizens in a specific country or region. The goal of this competition was to amplify the voices and perspectives of our community and to...
GV Essay Competition: Submissions from East Asia
As part of the 2015 GV Summit, we invited our community members and partners to write essays that explain and illuminate the real-world effects of an Internet-related policy on citizens in a specific country or region. The goal of this competition was to amplify the voices and perspectives of our...
GV Essay Competition: Submissions from South Asia
As part of the 2015 GV Summit, we invited our community members and partners to write essays that explain and illuminate the real-world effects of an Internet-related policy on citizens in a specific country or region. The goal of this competition was to amplify the voices and perspectives of our community and...
GV Essay Competition: Submissions from Russia and Eastern Europe
As part of the 2015 GV Summit, we invited our community members and partners to write essays that explain and illuminate the real-world effects of an Internet-related policy on citizens in a specific country or region. The goal of this competition was to amplify the voices and perspectives of our...
From the Global Voices 2015 Summit, Moving Onward and Upward
Perhaps we weren't visible from space, like the Great Wall of China. But fortunately the drone-mounted camera that filmed us in front of Cebu City’s grand Provincial Capitol building on the afternoon of January 25, 2015 hovered only a few hundred feet above us, a fraction of the Global Voices...
GV Essay Competition: Submissions from MENA
As part of the 2015 GV Summit, we invited our community members and partners to write essays that explain and illuminate the real-world effects of an Internet-related policy on citizens in a specific country or region. The goal of this competition was to amplify the voices and perspectives of our community...
GV Essay Competition: Submissions from Sub-Saharan Africa
Read essays on Internet policy in Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda, from the GV Advocacy essay competition.
Gagged in the Name of Chavismo, Venezuela's Political Religion
In Venezuela the concepts of “homeland”, “country”, “state”, “government” and “chavismo” have been so deeply linked that are no longer recognizable from each other.
GV Advocacy Essays: Submissions from Latin America
Read essays on Internet policy in Brazil, Chile and Cuba, from the GV Advocacy essay competition.
GV Advocacy Awards Essays on Internet Censorship from Iran, Venezuela, Ethiopia
Winners of the Advocacy essay competition included Cameran Ashraf (first prize), Marianne Diaz (second prize), and Endalk Chala (third prize). Read their award-winning essays here.