Every two weeks we highlight some of the latest and greatest from newly trained Rising Voices bloggers. Usually these posts take us all over the world, but this week we are going to focus specifically on Dhaka, Bangladesh where a group of ambitious young women are offering us an open window into their lives and [...]

At this year’s Global Voices Summit held in Budapest many attendees asked the Rising Voices participants how they could help support their projects. One of the best way to encourage new bloggers to keep sharing stories about their lives and communities is to simply leave comments on the posts they write. And to link to [...]

I’ve got about 15 drafts of posts I’ve been meaning to publish here. Then another 20 or so floating around in my head (and soon to be evaporating) that I’d also like to write. And, of course, there are the 6,315 unread items in my RSS reader that I both want and need to be [...]

Japan: Two Degrees from Terror
Here’s a surefire way of damaging your political career in Japan: mention that a friend of a friend of yours is a member of al-Qaeda. That admission by newly appointed justice minister, Hatoyama Kunio, has created a storm of controversy throughout the country. But in this era of global hyper-connectedness, where [...]