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Supporting marginalized communities to harness the internet and meet their self-determined needs. An initiative of bsky.app/profile/globalvoices.org rising.globalvoices.org

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 29/08/2025
Efforts to make digital content available in the language have also been hampered by the lack of universally accepted writing standardization. @risingvoices.bsky.social
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Two alphabets, one struggle: How Kurdish communities are building a digital future
Kurdish Wikimedian Mohammed Sardar shares why he creates digital content to preserve his native language.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 08/09/2025
"Where does artificial intelligence get its data to create new content? Well, from what already exists. And what already exists is much of what was promoted in the last century, very folkloric." @risingvoices.bsky.social
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Indigenous digital activists in Mexico assert their self-determination with regard to artificial intelligence
What does artificial intelligence mean for Mexico's Indigenous languages? For two days, digital activists reflected on how these technologies can revitalize or threaten their languages and cultures.
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Tori @ETori @etori.eurosky.social · 15/10/2025
Why don't I have a million followers so that at least 10,000 would watch this incredible short animation from @risingvoices.bsky.social ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8hE...
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El Cuento De La Lechuza (Mito del pueblo Maya mam) - Colectivo Arawii
YouTube video by Colectivo Arawii
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📣[Convocatoria] 📣 Rising Voices te invita a participar en el primer Campamento Catalizador para activistas digitales emergentes del maya yucateco en la península de Yucatán, Chelem, 6-11 de octubre . ✏️ Más información y postulaciones: bit.ly/45ZCzxH
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 03/08/2025
"Over the course of three days, I'll be cycling the equivalent of 10,000 meters in elevation, all for a good cause." @natematias.bsky.social globalvoices.org/2025/07/24/f...
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Fundraiser: Climbing a virtual Everest with the Global Voices Community
The ride is raising funds for Global Voices and in support of its mission.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 03/08/2025
Day 1 Fundraiser #Photodump by @natematias.bsky.social during his Everest Roam: biking for 34 hours straight to climb the equivalent elevation of Mount Everest. 🚵🏽‍♂️His goal? To raise funds for Global Voices. globalvoices.org/donate/ #KeepGVStrong🌱
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 03/08/2025
Videoblog of @natematias first day of the Everest Roam. His goal? fundraise money for Global Voices. Donate now and #KeepGVStrong🌱. globalvoices.org/donate/
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I love these stories about the Indigenous language digital activism projects by @risingvoices.bsky.social so much
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Children's songs translated into Maya Uspantek: Aury Us’ project in Guatemala
“I hope that children, youth, and the rest of the population will join in so that the language doesn't disappear.”
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
@globalvoices.org is a nonprofit providing FREE, ad-free community journalism, commentary, translation & analysis from all over, because doing so makes the Internet & the world, a better place. In the current funding situation, we can't do it without your help! globalvoices.org/donate/ #KeepGVStrong
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Donate · Global Voices
Support freedom of expression for everyone, everywhere, by donating to Global Voices.
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We're doing a fundraiser for Global Voices this summer, in part because it's gotten really hard to fund independent journalism like this. Please help us out if you can. globalvoices.org/donate/
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Donate · Global Voices
Support freedom of expression for everyone, everywhere, by donating to Global Voices.
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Janine Mendes-Franco @francomenz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Dem nuh partial", and it's true! [...] We're not the typical source for news and information that's backed by bias or ideation that leans more to one direction than the other. @globalvoices.org @petchary.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/candic...
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In 2024, Global Voices changed my life even more than they did when I was welcomed as a contributing writer back in 2023. | Candice S.
In 2024, Global Voices changed my life even more than they did when I was welcomed as a contributing writer back in 2023. The multi-lingual and multicultural storytelling and journalistic community of...
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
If you're not sure what @globalvoices.org is or why people are donating to it, take a quick look at our main page. You'll find news from local contributors and partners, all over the world-just on the top line today, we've got Thailand, Trinidad&Tobago, Armenia-Azerbaijan, & Turkey
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Global Voices · Local perspectives for a global audience
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 11/07/2025
🗣️Today we're launching a campaign to raise $250,000 to keep Global Voices alive and thriving. 👉🏿We’re ad-free, paywall-free, and community-powered — but funding cuts and a tough media landscape are putting us at risk. #KeepGVStrong🌱 globalvoices.org/2025/07/09/s...
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Support Global Voices as we launch our donation campaign
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Keep @globalvoices.org newsroom & @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social translation communities strong! Since 2005, GV has been independently shining a light on stories & voices that traditionally aren’t seen in the mainstream media. Please support by donating or sharing! globalvoices.org/2025/07/09/s...
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Support Global Voices as we launch our donation campaign
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Here is another report out from our wonderful collaboration with Igbo Wikimedians User Group supporting their local language community interested in digital language activism, via @wikimedia’s Diff diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/25/b...
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Build Your Own Road Map for Igbo Language Digital Activism
E-flyer for Build Your Own Road Map for Igbo Language Digital Activism Workshop Five workshops birthed five distinct language communities Digital Activism Workshop. Each community workshop, a repre…
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
AND our @risingvoices.bsky.social initiative, which supports digital activists in Indigenous and under-resourced languages: rising.globalvoices.org
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Rising Voices · Helping the global population join the global conversation
Rising Voices aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
more about the @risingvoices.bsky.social initiative supporting Indigenous language digital activists ~ in this case, looking at the Mayan writing system!
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K'iche’ Maya glyphs to reconnect art and language: Wilmer Aram Ajú's project in Guatemala
Wilmer Aram Ajú facilitates workshops on the ancient Mayan writing system to generate greater curiosity about the language and its relationship to Mayan art.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It was fantastic to collaborate with the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group to support local language speakers interested in incorporating digital media into their language promotion work. Read more about it here: diff.wikimedia.org/2025/06/05/d...
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Dagbani Language Activists Trained to Promote and Protect Their Work Online
From May 16 to 17, 2025, the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, in partnership with Rising Voices, Global Voices, and UNESCO, organized a two-day workshop in Tamale, Ghana. The event was titled “Build…
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We are excited to co-organize this online meeting with great partners, highlighting digital initiatives promoting Adivasi and low-resource languages of India happening on June 29th rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2025/06...
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Vicipéid | An Chiclipéid Shaor @vicipeid.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
📢 Dáta Deireanach: Dé Luain beag seo, 2ú Meitheamh! Más spéis leat páirt a ghlacadh i gceardlann ar Gníomhaíocht Dhigiteach & an Ghaeilge le @risingvoices.bsky.social - líon isteach anois ✍️ 👉 forms.gle/RbgEYiC5TUoi... #Gaeilge #GníomhaíochtDhigiteach @wikimediaireland.bsky.social
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Glóir Aníos | Rising Voices📝 Léiriú Spéise / Expression of Interest
Téama / Theme: Gníomhaíocht Dhigiteach & an Ghaeilge / Digital Activism & the Irish Language 💬 Réamhrá / Introduction Tá an tionscadal seo dírithe ar an gceist: conas is féidir linn ár dteanga mhionla...
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#languagelodge is co-organized by ELP, @risingvoices.bsky.social, and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. This year, it’s hosted by Quechua language activist Emma Vadillo Quesada, co-founder of Watuchi Siminchik Wasi. Read more:
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Language Lodge Workshop Focused on Publishing to Open in June
The 2025 Language Lodge begins on Monday, June 16. Registration is free.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Global Voices 20th Anniversary Reader Survey Please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey and tell us about how you interact with Global Voices, what we can do better, and what we should do more of. globalvoices.org/2025/06/03/g...
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Global Voices 20th Anniversary Reader Survey
Please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey and tell us about how you interact with Global Voices, what we can do better, and what we should do more of.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Q&A: Meet Shakuntala Marndi, Santali-language activist and Wikimedian rising.globalvoices.org/blog/2025/04...
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Q&A: Meet Shakuntala Marndi, Santali-language activist and Wikimedian
Amrit Sufi interviews Shakuntala Marndi, a Santali-language Wikipedian, about her efforts to promote Santali online, particularly through her blog and Wikimedia projects.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism via @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
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How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
In one example, an AI image generator produced an image of what was meant to be an elderly First Nations man – in a traditional Papuan headdress.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As part of this week's Indigenous Languages Digital Activism Summit, we're organizing the "AI+Languages" Forum with more than 50 speakers of Indigenous languages across Mexico, representing 17 different languages.
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IFEX @ifex.org · 07/03/2025
#Indonesia 🇮🇩 @globalvoices.org interviews the leaders of Komunitas Wikimedia Jakarta about the challenges they face in promoting the Betawi language online. @risingvoices.bsky.social buff.ly/EcEohFA
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On Saturday, March 15th, we are organizing the Digital Indigenous Languages Fair in Mexico City. More than 50 Indigenous language digital activists will showcase their work using digital tools to promote their native languages in digital spaces. #ADLI25 together with our partners. bit.ly/feriaADLI25
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pen-tlrc.bsky.social @pen-tlrc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
On #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, @peninternational.bluesky.social's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee is launching its 5th Video-Poem Marathon! For one month, we'll be publishing poets in Indigenous and minoritized languages from every continent, Making Silenced Languages Visible
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Announcing the Indigenous Language Digital Activism Summit: Join us in Mexico City on March 15! globalvoices.org/2025/02/10/a...
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Announcing the Indigenous Language Digital Activism Summit: Join us in Mexico City on March 15!
The ADLI25 Summit will be a space to facilitate peer learning and exchange between Indigenous language digital activists, who are working to promote, preserve and revitalize Indigenous languages of Me...
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes theconversation.com/how-were-rec...
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How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fact checking content in local languages: Insights from French-speaking African media ijnet.org/en/story/fac...
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Fact checking content in local languages: Insights from French-speaking African media
Fact-checking initiatives in Francophone Africa — where many Indigenous languages also are spoken — typically publish their content in written formats and primarily in French. These efforts have been ...
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Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Come work with us, @risingvoices.bsky.social , and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage on the 2025 Language Lodge! Applications due January 24:
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Call for Lodge Designer
Call for Applications: 2025 Language Lodge Interaction Designer The Endangered Languages Project, in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's Language Vitality Ini...
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Congrats to the four speakers of Mayan Languages of Guatemala selected to our Catalyst Program for Indigenous Language Digital Activism. Learn more about the Program here: rising.globalvoices.org/catalyst/
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Rising Voices' @subhapa.bsky.social was recently featured on the Lingua Café podcast to talk about RV's work with language digital activism: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/jaa...
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Lingua Café Voice: a panorama on language justice in the digital age by JAAKLAC iniciativa
Lingua Café (LC) organises various actions reflecting upon the politics of the intersections between human rights, digital technologies and languages. We explore this by facilitating conversations acr...
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Are we missing anyone? Indigenous peoples in the Global Digital Compact and Summit of the Future www.giswatch.org/en/internet-... via APC's GISWatch
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Are we missing anyone? Indigenous peoples in the Global Digital Compact and Summit of the Future  | Global Information Society Watch
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 15/11/2024
Our director @older.bsky.social created a Starter Pack to make it easy to follow people in our community of bloggers, translators, journalists, and activists. 📍Want to join this list? We'll be adding more as we go! go.bsky.app/UnMznFc
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Exciting news! We recently launched the Rising Voices “Catalyst Program” for Indigenous Language Digital Activism in Colombia. We are accepting applications for this program, an extension of the Fellowship Program offered for Mayan languages in Mexico t.co/pDFwZihv8Z
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 02/11/2024
#GVSummit2024 Join us at the Hotel Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 6-7 for two days of connection, collaboration and conversation with journalists, activists, technologists, and others from around the world. globalvoices.org/2024/10/08/a...
Global Voices Summit 2024, December 6-7, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
🌿👇The 18 stories in "DigitalSecurity + Language" are windows to learn about the relationship between #DigitalRights and #LinguisticRights, where collective action is riquired if we are to strive for a [digital] world that is safer for everybody rising.globalvoices.org/digital-secu...
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Digital Security + Language · Rising Voices
What are the challenges and needs for activists and their communities speaking Indigenous, marginalized, minoritized, or low-resource languages in regards to digital safety and security? Eighteen rese...
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Rising Voices @risingvoices.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
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