David Sasaki is director of Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices which 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. Launched in 2007 thanks to the support of a Knight News Challenge Award, Rising Voices seeks to empower under-represented communities to make their voices heard online by firstly providing financial support to outreach projects, secondly developing a series of participatory media tutorials, and thirdly cultivating a network of passionate citizen media activists to help encourage and support the replication of outreach trainings. David previously served as Global Voices’ Latin America regional editor, monitoring the Latin American blogosphere, highlighting key content and translating select posts from Spanish to English. Founded in 2004 by a group of pioneering international bloggers, Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore.
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David Sasaki is director of Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices which 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. Launched in 2007 thanks to the support of a Knight News Challenge Award, Rising Voices seeks to empower under-represented communities to make their voices heard online by firstly providing financial support to outreach projects, secondly developing a series of participatory media tutorials, and thirdly cultivating a network of passionate citizen media activists to help encourage and support the replication of outreach trainings. David previously served as Global Voices’ Latin America regional editor, monitoring the Latin American blogosphere, highlighting key content and translating select posts from Spanish to English. Founded in 2004 by a group of pioneering international bloggers, Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore.