Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Macedonia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam.
These, in case you were wondering, are the 50-plus countries—and counting—that will be represented at the Global Voices Summit 2017 [1].
In just over a month's time, on December 2-3, hundreds from the four corners of the globe will gather at the TRACE Expert City [2] in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to spend two days together exploring the connections between the open Internet, freedom of expression and online civic movements around the world.
Since 2006, Global Voices Summits [3] have brought together the most innovative and inspiring digital activist and citizen media communities from around the world. These meetings have proven a rich breeding ground for ideas and collaborations across borders, and we look forward to continuing that tradition at the 2017 Summit.
[4]Colombo's Beira Lake at night. PHOTO: Shamli071 via Wikimedia Commons.
This year's program [5] will feature panels, short project showcases, open roundtable sessions and hands-on training workshops with some of the leading voices in digital rights and international citizen media. And as part of the process, we'll be facilitating real-time online participation as well as capturing, translating and publishing the knowledge and conversations coming out of the meeting.
If you'd like to join us in Colombo, please register [6] through the Summit website [1]. And if you're unable to join us in person, we'll be streaming portions of the program live on December 2-3, 2017.
And do keep an eye on the Summit website [1], Twitter [7] and Facebook [8] for updates!
The Global Voices Summit 2017 is made possible thank to the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation [9], Ford Foundation [10], Mozilla Foundation [11], Groundviews [12], Google [13], Calcey Technologies [14], Lanka Bell [15]and Hashtag Generation [16].