Global Voices is a project initiated by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society that aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens’ media.

Through the use of a wide variety of technologies - weblogs, podcasts, photos, video, wikis, tags, aggregators and online chats - Global Voices calls attention to conversations and points of view that they hope will help shed new light on the nature of our interconnected world. Global Voices aim to do the following:

1) Call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens’ media around the world by linking to text, photos, podcasts, video and other forms of grassroots citizens’ media being produced by people around the world

2) Facilitate the emergence of new citizens’ voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves

3) Advocate for freedom of expression around the world and to protect the rights of citizen journalists to report on events and opinions without fear of censorship or persecution

Global Voices has a special China project focussing upon coverage of the Beijing Olympics - see below for the latest headlines picked up by Global Voices.