2017 Global Voices Summit in Sri Lanka on 2 & 3 December

The 2017 edition of the Global Voices Summit will take place on 2 and 3 December in Colombo.

The two-day 7th annual Global Voices Summit will hold public conversations and workshops with bloggers, activists, technologists, journalists, policymakers, development experts and others from around the world. The summit will address the evolving state of citizen media, open Internet advocacy, an open Internet culture and grassroots activism from a Global South perspective.

Like all GV events, the 2017 summit will be a great opportunity for learning and sharing with a diverse and dynamic global community, the organisers say.

Supported by Groundviews, with sponsorship from the Mozilla Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and others, the 2017 meeting will analyse the challenges to the open internet, looking at questions of open architecture and conditions for safe and free expression in an environment of increasing threats to both.

The summit will explore how key ideas in the architecture of the internet and of discourse can rewire societies for resilience, reflection and deep research.

The launch of the summit website and details on venues, registration and programming will be announced in the near future.

Global Voices is an international community of writers, bloggers and digital activists which translates and reports on what is being said in citizen media worldwide. Global Voices is one of the most influential citizen media projects in the world. It is a non-profit project started at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School that grew out of an international bloggers’ meeting held in December 2004. The organisation was founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. In 2008, it became an independent non-profit incorporated in Amsterdam, Netherlands.