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Showing Revision 1 created 10/07/2012 by Aisha.
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Title:
Conversando con Ellery Biddle sobre Global Voices
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Description:
Conversando con Ellery Biddle sobre Global Voices, en el GV Summit 2012. Pride Inn Raphta Road, Nairobi, Kenia, 3 de julio del 2012, 1.19pm
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[Interviewer] Tell me about your experience in Global Voice, what do you think of it? I enjoy being
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part of this community. I...it satisfies me to have a place in which I not only
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write about my ideas but can also interchange them and, in addition know what is happening in the blogosphere
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and cover that, be able to talk with my colleagues, because five days ago
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I didn't know any of them. But...I always felt very welcomed, I always feel like
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if I'm reading about a problem in a country or something that's happening and I want to write something,
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I can write to any authors of that country and ask them what they know about the topic, and if they can help me
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learn more or meet bloggers that are working on this topic. Yes...I love it.
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I just wish I could do more.
[Interviewer] Aside from collaborating with Global Voices
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you have a good job, right? Tell us about it. - A job that's very good. Well,
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I work for the Center of Democracy and Technology
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which is a NGO in the United States that works to promote and protect the
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fundamental rights online. Basically, they protect the right to express oneself, access information and have privacy.
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Our group focuses mainly on public politics and most of us are lawyers
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I'm not, but our work has much to do with the domestic legislation concerning
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the ICT, Internet, but my team works more on global matters and, generally, what we do is
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identify problems, new legislations, changing politics, where we can help
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in any way. We work with organizations from other countries with similar goals in mind
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including many organizations from Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia.
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Something unique that our team has is a lot of technological knowledge
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as well as individuals that know how law works in relation to technology.
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So sometimes, if there is a new controversial bill of which
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we've had some experience dealing with in the United States, we're able to say
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we've dealt with this before, we can write a helpful analysis or call them
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concerning the topic. In some situations, like in Thailand where there was a bill regarding
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the law and organization with which we work, they told us it would be very beneficial to hear an opinion based on the
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experience we had in our country. Well, alright! The truth is that in every country things are different, but the people that
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work on these topics always know what will work strategically or not.
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That's the way it is, that's how I work. I try to cover these matters and fill the voids
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found between two places. [Interviewer] Besides telling us about this, are there other matters that interest you,
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other things that catch your attention. -What?- [Interviewer] Are there other things that interest you?
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-Yes, but are you talking about something specifically?- [Interviewer] No, no, you mentioned you wanted
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to talk about other things not having to do with your work. -No, no. I'm very happy to be
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part of this community and be able to combine my daily work with the experiences we're
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having. The most important thing, I think, is that the people who use the media
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are understanding that there are politics that affect their right to use them safely
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and in a way in which they can freely express themselves. [Interviewer] And what's the outlook for today? -Well, I
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ask you the same thing because I've been in two and I think they went well, I hope.
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[Interviewer] Well, thank you. -Thank you-