Global Voices Online es un proyecto del Berkman Center for Internet and Society de la Universidad de Harvard, cuyo propósito es servir como guia de las “más interesantes conversaciones, información e ideas que aparecen alrededor del mundo en diversos medios de comunicación participativos tales como blogs, podcasts, sitios para compartir fotos y videoblogs”. (Ver una presentación más completa abajo, al final). Global Voices Online fue recientemente distinguido con el premio a los mejores blogs por el consorcio alemán Deutsche Welle en los siguientes términos: The Global Voices Online uber-blog has delivered what no other media organization with an international mission would — or perhaps could: Direct distribution of diverse, authentic, original commentary, news, information, insight and culture from every wired corner of the world to a hungry and neglected global audience. By organizing, recommending, broadcasting and linking hundreds of bloggers by nation, Global Voices opens the door to a broad spectrum of voices, which the user may discover by country or by topic.
En su más reciente entrada sobre Chile, Global Voices Online informa el día 21 de noviembre sobre una nueva generación de blogs en nuestro país, bajo el título: New Specialist Blogs: A Growing Chilean Opportunity.
Se refiere allí a blogs chilenos producidos por personas que han trabajado o trabajan para el gobierno y en organismos estatales, que tienen presencia en el campo académico, participan en movimientos sociales y de opinión y ejercen alguna forma de liderazgo en su ámbito. Expone y comenta algunos de estos blogs e incluye entre ellos a este blog, de lo que puedo informar con modesta alegría.
El artículo completo de Global Voices Online, firmado por Rosario Lizana, se transcribe a continuación.
Inside the Chilean Blogs world, we have a specialist blog community. This community is characterized by people that have worked for the government, or are in the academic field, participate in social movement and also have leadership in their area. It is not only a thematic blog community, these are advisors that have moved to the blog world to express their own beliefs and they have a deep commitment to building a better society. They use the blog as a platform for spread their knowledge. Most of them are advisors, have governmental jobs or have some government relations, or just because of their leadership are in some way involved in the architecture of social meaning. What follows is not a complete list of all the specialist leadership bloggers, but a selection that will be growing in the next post.
José Miguel Muga works on the Congress library as Director of the project for Innovation of services for parliaments and citizens, oriented to develop public value to actual and new library services, sponsored by IADB. His blog is a mixture of social and viral marketing.
José Joaquin Brunner is an expert on the field of education, ex Secretary of Education; actually he is a research-professor of Adolfo Ibanez University and also member of the directive board of the International Institute of Planning Education (IIPE), of the UNESCO. His blog is about education and reflections about it. Another education field is design: Rodrigo Walker, Director of Design School of Universidad Mayor, works with students to develop skills that allow them to be competitive about the opportunities that international economic treatments give us, in the industrial design area. The blog is oriented to give students that vision.
Jorge Navarrete is an Advisor of the council committee of the National Defense Ministry, and his blog is about different publications of national and international political issues. Also, Clara Szczaranski, head of the Consejo de Defensa del Estado has her personal view of life on her blog, using it as a form to express her reflections.

Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.
How Global Voices Works:
A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Global Voices is your guide to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs.
Our global team of regional blogger-editors is working to find, aggregate and track these conversations. Each day they link to 5-10 of the most interesting blog posts from their regions in the “daily roundups” section. A larger group of contributing bloggers is posting daily features in in the left-hand Weblog section, shedding light on what blogging communities in their countries have been talking about recently.
The Global Voices Team:
Co-Founders: Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon
Regional Blogger-editors:
Middle East/North Africa: Haitham Sabbah
South Asia: Neha Viswanathan
Sub-Saharan Africa: Sokari Ekine
East Asia: Jose Manuel Tesoro
Americas: David Sasaki
Eastern Europe, Russia, Caucasus & Central Asia: Nathan Hamm.
Contributing editors:
Jeff Ooi
Luisetta Mudie
Our Primary Goals:
At a time when the international English-language media ignores many things that are important to large numbers of the world’s citizens, Global Voices aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens’ media. We’re using a wide variety of technologies – weblogs, wikis, podcasts, tags, aggregators and online chats – to call attention to conversations and points of view that we hope will help shed new light on the nature of our inter-connected world.
1) To call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens’ media around the world by linking to text, audio, and video blogs and other forms of grassroots citizens’ media being produced by people around the world.
2) To facilitate the emergence of new citizens’ voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves.
3) To advocate for freedom of expression around the world and to protect the rights of citizen journalists to report on events and opinions without fear of censorship or persecution.
The idea for the project grew out of an international bloggers’ meeting held at Harvard in December 2004. (Here is a written account of the meeting. To listen to an audio report, click here.) Global Voices, though headquartered at Harvard Law School, is a cooperative effort of contributors from every continent and dozens of countries.
For more detailed information please read our Frequently Asked Questions.
If you’re a blogger and want to get involved, please click here.
If you’re a journalist and want more information, please click here.
Para saber más sobre Global Voices Online recurre aquí a su página de FAQ.