I’ve been very, VERY, busy these days so I’m neglecting my dear mayvelous and GV postings. Other day, my GV editor asked for some posts relating US elections and rice/food crisis from mm blogosphere but I couldn’t find/give any. One, I haven’t been following the feeds properly and two, I don’t think any of us care to give a comment on US election as we have our own unresolved election crisis at hand.

Anyhow, I’m keeping my eyes open for this two highlights at the moment; for now let me spread a few words about some of the projects on GV.

Voices without Votes

This is the main highlight at the moment. It features the commentaries/reactions of bloggers around the world regarding the US presidential elections.

Voices Without Votes is a project of Global Voices commissioned by Reuters.

Voices Without Votes highlights conversations in non-American blogs and citizen media, with emphasis on the regions covered by Global Voices:
Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East.

Et cetera, etc…you get the idea; go ahead and find out more at Voices without votes. We are also looking for non-American blog posts and links so if you got one, submit it here and get it featured on the site. Ofcos’ you can also grab these lovely badges and spread the word on your lovely blogs/sites.

Rising Voices
This one encourages a lot on vlogging, podcasting and ofcos blogging from new/remote communities.

Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities.

Rising Voices is a global network of people who are knowledgeable and passionate about citizen media and want to see the benefits of self-expression extended to communities that have yet to come across these tools.

We got about 10 very active and interesting projects at the moment. You can watch the videos on how the current projects are doing and also apply for 2008 micro grant which will take place next month and it focuses on public health.

Global Voices Advocacy
This one is mainly about anonymous blogging and protecting uncensored publishing. Ok, I’m not too aware of this project myself so you just have to read through the site to understand more.

seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists throughout the developing world that is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online.

There is also “Project Lingua” on GV. If you haven’t notice, now you can read GV in 12 different languages and surely many more to come in the future.

Project Lingua seeks to amplify Global Voices in languages other than English with the help of volunteer translators. It will open lines of communication with non-english speaking bloggers and readers of GV by translating main GV site content into other languages.

Currently GV is seeking hindi translators for the new hindi language page. I’m thinking of putting those lovely Burmese circular characters on GV in the near future. Seeing Zawgyi on GV would be interesting don’t you think so? That’s along way to come; before that I need to spread more GV awareness to Myanmar Blogosphere. Do you know we now got 2 authors for Myanmar section. Ofcos’ it’s ME the great and the sexy cool – YangonThu (Moe Moe). Well, I know both of us are very bad at posting; Moe Moe is more into fashion and modeling with her friends on E-Flash or S-Splash or something and I’m lost in my own world.

Anyhow, GV is pretty cool isn’t it? You get to experience the whole new world GV once you get to involve more with it. Alrite, nothing much, I’m just spreading the word yarr.

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