David Sasaki

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Director of Outreach, Global Voices

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2 June 2012

RV At 5: A Journey To Mutual Enlightenment And Satisfaction

Written by David Sasaki · Feature, RV at 5, RV Community

David Sasaki, the founding director of Rising Voices, reflects on the completion of five years of Rising Voices. In the first three years of his tenure he has traveled extensively to visit, support, and mentor over twenty Rising Voices grantee projects around the world. David thinks that it's not the technology what matters, it's what you do with it.

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19 January 2010

Announcing the Technology for Transparency Network

Written by David Sasaki · Announcements, Feature, Transparency and Technology Network

Rising Voices, the outreach and citizen media training initiative of Global Voices Online, has launched a new interactive website and global network of researchers to map online technology projects that aim to promote transparency, political accountability, and civic engagement.

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29 December 2009

Hip-Hop as Cosmpolitan Citizen Media

Written by David Sasaki · Ceasefire Liberia, Feature, Hiper-Barrio, REPACTED, Voces Bolivianas

Seeking greater social inclusion through new communication technologies is a strategy with a long and accomplished history that has persisted through waves of new inventions including the telegraph, radio, television, satellite, and of course, the Internet. But has any "communication for social inclusion" project been as successful as hip-hop? Just ask the bloggers from Rising Voices citizen media projects.

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28 December 2009

Rising Voices Launches the Transparency and Technology Network

Written by David Sasaki · Feature, Transparency and Technology Network

Next month Rising Voices will launch a new initiative, the Transparency and Technology Network. This is a three-month, participatory research mapping to gain a better understanding of the current state of online technology projects that increase transparency, government accountability, and civic engagement in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia, China, and Central & Eastern Europe.

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11 December 2009

Interview with Ghaida'a Al Absi

Written by David Sasaki · Interview, Video, Women Activists Yemen

Ghaida'a al-Absi is the leader of Empowerment of Women Activists in Media Techniques in Yemen, which provides digital media training courses to Yemeni women activists.

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5 December 2009

HiperBarrio Maps San Javier La Loma with Open Street Maps

Written by David Sasaki · Feature, Hiper-Barrio

Led by two passionate open source enthusiasts, Fredy Rivera and Elkin Botero, the members of the HiperBarrio collective of youth citizen journalists in Medellín, Colombia have created the first freely accessible online map of their own community.

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24 November 2009

[Video] Interview with Rodrigo Nogueira of Viva Favela

Written by David Sasaki · Feature, Interview, Video

Rodrigo Nogueira is the Editor of Viva Favela, a Rio de Janeiro-based citizen journalism project of Viva Rio. Viva Favela's coverage of the aftermath following a helicopter which was shot down by drug dealers in Rio De Janeiro was featured on Global Voices earlier this month.

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28 October 2009

[Video] Interview with Pavel Kutsev of Drop-In Center

Written by David Sasaki · Drop-In Center, Projects, Video

Pavel Kutsev is the co-founder of Drop-In Center, a Ukrainian organization which advocates for the rights of the injection drug user communication and for better national policy related to substitution therapy. In this video he gives us a basic introduction to the "harm reduction from injection drug use" movement, and summarizes the outcomes of a recent conference in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine which sought to establish a national network of harm reduction acti

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26 October 2009

Colombia: Solidarity With Hiperbarrio After Library Robbery

Written by David Sasaki · Feature, Hiper-Barrio, Projects

After a robbery of the La Loma Library in Medellín, Colombia, the home of the Hiperbarrio citizen media project, an outpouring of support and solidarity was sent from around the world.

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10 October 2009

[Video] Interview with Eric Newton of Knight Foundation

Written by David Sasaki · Interview, Video

Eric Newton is the vice president of the journalism program at Knight Foundation. He describes the annual $5 million Knight News Challenge, which aims to bring about news innovation by supporting new technologies and techniques to bring news and information to specific geographic communities around the world. He offers some examples of projects that have been funded including Rhodes University in South Africa, Freedom Fone in Zimbabwe, Ushahidi in Kenya, and the Sochi Olympics citizen journalism project in Russia, and also provides some tips for applicants seeking funding.

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