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To celebrate the first 5 years of life on this exciting project that is Global Voices, I would also tell you what it has meant to me. When Bernardo Parrella wrote me May 22, 2008 proposing to start with some translations voluntary GVO, I confess that I had never heard of. Given the period, not really exciting for my professional life, I was in deep crisis about the meaning of all that was referring to the so-called "social media".9g3ttaf4iobrn9bj9u18vwnp0u1cebreand digital technologies in general: to be able to volunteer by exploiting what I could do gave me great satisfaction. At the urging of Bernard I attended the Global Voices Summit in Budapest in late June 2008, to officially launch the Italian version of GVO and I must say it was really a big injection of enthusiasm, I met people of great value, all very young and motivated.x062po9cxou26azbmguh12khl7woike5I've discovered the Project Rising Voices, which Sasaki follows with great competence and enthusiasm: people through training learn to keep a blog, can also have a voice, even if they live in prison or in the worst neighborhood in Medellin and I discovered Sami Ben Gharbia of Advocacy, which fights censorship and supports bloggers in trouble, and even Portnoy who invented the project Lingua.
In Budapest, there were also Zoro (Diego Bianchi per century) and6dersxg39qiva7auh1erutwgitkwckv9Alfredo Giovampaolo, with which there are more 'cross but that was a nice discovery.
The GlobalVoices Italian community has grown over time, with so many talented people who believe in the project and contribute their translations to ensure that different voices are heard by the world in Italy.4ufggu6h8c9kjqjacqvyat8j7yf0wdxrIn 2008 we reported in the fastest times on what happened in Ossetia, and first through Twitter, and the posts then, we have given information about what happened in Mumbai, as we also told RAI News24.
Thanks to Global Voices, I discovered what it means to work in Japanese factories as "displaced" or the Japanese concept of privacy or rather what it means to be strict in Korean schools, how Egyptian women0kgzhro0da2bij2k0nzbzrywsmla971zsee their peers more Westernized.
Each item GVO made me get into new worlds that I have always found it interesting because it allows me to understand viewpoints different from mine, so the article you want to remember this year 'on the death of a journalist and blogger in prison: Omid Reza Mir Sayaf, was Iranian and was twenty years old when on 18 March and 'died in Evin prison in Tehran, because' all the entries and oppressedik0tik4ylpw70a9y9g46xwitwemnlqutsuppressed and the world know they can count on Global Voices that carry and will get everywhere.1i1t5xyemvfo04v74ub34ovvplue75gySpecial thanks to Solana and Georgia who, with their lightness and good will always manage to handle difficult situations and to always give the charge to the entire group. To all the friends of Global Voices, and in particular the Italian group, my wishes for 2010 peace and joy.i2pce5qx89cgl7pc9jcc60eig42jhy9q

Here the article GlobalVoices officer for 5 years here and posts written by various GVoicers in the world for the anniversary.zzqyqx7pypurdf81s4gny554qkegi578