I am a 29-year-old researcher from Almaty, Kazakhstan. I hold Ph.D. in Political Science, run an NGO, a neweurasia.net's Kazakhstan section and a personal blog.

In 1984, I was born in a big town called Hassa, east of Saudi Arabia. In 2002, I moved to the capital Riyadh to study at King Saud University. Currently, my life is divided between those two cities. My main motivation to do this is because I want to give a better view to the world about what's really happening in my country and the Middle East in general. I maintain two blogs: Saudi Jeans in English, and Yawmyat in Arabic. Recently, I co-founded Saudi Blogs, the first serious attempt to build the Saudi bloggers community.

A Lawyer and human rights defender, and now a legal unit officer in association for freedom of thought and expression ” AFTE ” in Egypt , and former a legal unit officer in Egyptian center for economic and social rights ” ECESR ” . interested in defending victims of human rights violations in Egypt .

I'm a PhD candidate in political science at the University of British Columbia. My dissertation looks at Thailand's recent mass movements, the Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts. I blog on Thai politics on New Mandala and write for Thailand's popular independent news, Prachatai (English version). In my free time I hike, travel, help others and learn a new language.

Born in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow State University and currently writing Ph.D thesis there. Simultaneously writing MA thesis in the Warsaw University, Poland. Worked in Carnegie Moscow Center from 2005 till 2008 in the “Society and Regions” programm. More events at my blog

Ali Abdulemam (Bahrain) since 1999, has created, managed and maintained www.bahrainonline.org, the #1 website in Bahrain with over 100,000 daily hits. In collaboration, Mr. Abdulemam started www.al-manama.net, the first online media outlet registered in Bahrain. Just this year, Ali developed a new source of information online, www.bahrainportal.org. He has been active in international workshops and conferences discussing on the topics of freedom of expression and the Bahraini media environment.

I am an ordinary blogger from the Republic of Azerbaijan - a tiny country between the East and the West. I have a personal blog titled In Mutatione Fortitudo and write regular posts for UK-based Frontline Club. You can also follow my tweets here.

was an editor of an English language daily in Bahrain. Journalist. Columnist. Blogger. Educated and raised in Bahrain. Currently living in Ontario, Canada. Interests include writing, the arts and human rights.

Antony is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Washington Post, Haaretz, The Nation and many others. His best-selling book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, My Israel Question, was released by Melbourne University Publishing in 2007. His second book, The Blogging Revolution, on the internet in repressive regimes, will be released in September 2008 by Melbourne University Publishing.

He is a board member of Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and North African Studies and an Honorary Associate at Macquarie University's Department of Politics and International Relations. He is the co-founder of advocacy group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and works for Amnesty International Australia's 2008 campaign about Chinese internet repression and the Beijing Olympic Games. Antony appears regularly on radio, TV, in public and at universities discussing current affairs and politics.

Arianna is the co-founder of The annual Perugia International Journalism Festival.

Teeth Maestro aka Dr. Awab Alvi has been an active blogger since July 2004 blogging at Teeth Maestro where he shares his concerns about politics and other such issues that may bug him from time to time.
Dr. Awab Alvi is a Dentist by profession with a specialty in Orthodontics (Saint Louis Univ, MO, USA) and Root Canal (Univ of Penn, PA, USA), he maintains a full time practice at Alvi Dental Hospital in Karachi (website) at Sindhi Muslim Society.

Becky Hogge is a writer and digital activist working in the UK. For two years she led UK digital civil liberties campaigners the Open Rights Group. Her first book “Barefoot into Cyberspace” was published in July 2011.

Ben Wagner is a Researcher at European University Institute in Florence, Italy and coordinates the Dynamic Coalition on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Media at the U.N. Internet Governance Forum (IGF). He has a background in International Relations, Public Administration and International Development and works on Internet Governance, Freedom of Expression, boundary drawing and the (re)bordering of the internet.

Freelance journalist, translator and activist on media and digital culture issues, currently living in New Mexico, USA. Involved with Italy-based media outlets/projects among others, he's also editor of Global Voices in Italiano and contributor to <a href="http://translationexchange.wordpress.com/"GV's Translation Exchange Project.

Cameran Ashraf is an Iranian-American digital activist and doctoral student at UCLA. His doctoral research focuses on the geographies of information, social movements, politics, and diaspora using Iran's recent post-election unrest as a case study.

Among other projects, he has worked on protest video distribution resulting in nearly 3 million video downloads from Iran. He is co-founder of Internet advocacy NGO AccessNow.org and Expression Technologies, a non-profit organization working directly with activists in censored and repressive regimes.

Carolina is an Indonesian freelance feature writer and Lingua Bahasa Indonesia translator, based in Casablanca, Morocco.

Writer/translator and researcher living in Tokyo, Japan. I am the Japanese language editor for Global Voices (with Scilla Alecci). I blog in English and in Japanese, and Twitter in both. From a research perspective, I am interested in the intersection of translation and participatory media, the potential of community translation, and the contrasts of openness and difference. From a social perspective, I have written about changes in the local media landscape in Japan and what these changes mean for the future of news. I am also one of the few people covering issues of net regulation in Japan for an international audience.

I'm always interested in talking about any of the above topics, if you have a venue and an audience, please contact me.

クリス・サルツバーグはライター・翻訳家・研究員、東京在住。（共同編集者と一緒に）グローバル・ボイス(Global Voices)の日本語エディターをしている。ブログは英語と日本語の両方で書いている。グローバル・ボイスは日本語で朝日のコミミの記事で紹介された。

記事の中の引用や翻訳が問題がある場合は、お知らせください。場合によっては、引用部の削除を検討いたします。 メール： japanese AT globalvoicesonline DOT org

CJ Hinke is a translator, book publisher and bibliographer of numerous children's books in Latin and Thai.  He has lived in Thailand since 1989 where he founded Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) in 2006 to campaign against pervasive censorship in Thai society.  As a Quaker, he became an organiser in the pacifist movement opposing the war in Vietnam and was arrested more than 35 times in demonstrations of civil disobedience.  After moving to Canada, in 1976, he became the last American arrested for the Vietnam draft, pardoned by Jimmy Carter's first official act as US President.  CJ formed the Society Protecting Intact Kinetic Ecosystems (SPIKE) which supported the tree-spiking of one of the world's last intact temperate rainforests in Clayoquot Sound off the west coast of Vancouver Island.  FACT's campaign is active internationally in resisting Internet, book, film and self-censorship.  “Freedom of opinions, freedom of thought, freedom of ideas, every one of us deserves a voice.”

Social Media researcher and consultant. Internet scholar, Web activist. Science and Tech editor. Traveller.

Professional activities: social media, social web innovation and collaboration, digital divide, sustainable systems, open access, open source, R&D, providing consulting and training to both the government and non-government sectors internationally.

Personal website: http://www.danicar.org.
Follow Danica on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DanicaR

Daniel Chandranayagam is the editor-in-chief of the CSR Digest (http://csrdigest.com/). With a background in writing and researching, Daniel read for his law degree in the UK. He is especially interested in what businesses can do to curb corruption, bribery and to promote a better life for the communities in which they are based. His blog is at http://pottedplot.com/.

Daniel Duende is a storyteller, a brazilian, a writer and, some say (and some disagree), a blogger. He lives in Brasilia, Brazil.

Blogger since 2003, I have lived, worked, and traveled throughout most of Latin America. I blog in both Spanish and English with two other friends at El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado.

As well as being the author for the Turkish and Kurdish blogosphere coverage on Global Voices, I am also the Digest Editor and the author-elected representative on the Stichting Global Voices board.

Currently I am finishing my masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Utah.

Writing about reform and socio-economic change in China.

I'm a Bachelor of Tourism from Brazil, but my interests include Journalism, citizen media, human rights and politics. I'm also the Lingua Editor of Global Voices in Portuguese. You can easily find me on Twitter [en] / [pt]. For further details, visit my blog Logged-In.org [pt] and my website.

Ece Temelkuran is one of Turkey’s best-known journalists and political commentators, writing regularly for the Turkish newspaper Habertürk. She has published widely and won numerous awards for her work, including the Pen for Peace Award and Turkish Journalist of the Year. Follow @etemelkuran on Twitter

I am a Bolivian-American who maintains the blog Barrio Flores, while living in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Currently, I am the Regional Editor for Latin America and the Spanish language editor for Global Voices.
I am the founder and director of the Voces Bolivianas project, which teaches the use of citizen media to underrepresented groups throughout Bolivia, with the help of a network of national bloggers.

I am a Bolivian-American who maintains the blog Barrio Flores, while living in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Currently, I am the Regional Editor for Latin America and the Spanish language editor for Global Voices.

I am the founder and director of the Voces Bolivianas project, which teaches the use of citizen media to underrepresented groups throughout Bolivia, with the help of a network of national bloggers.

Editor of Global Voices in Macedonian

Co-founder of Maneno, an open-source blogging platform with a Sub-Saharan African focus & the only one localized in African language. I tweet at @eliaws and blog at Twiga. Currently based in Côte d'Ivoire.

I am a Philadelphia native living in San Francisco, where I work for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Since 2008, I have focused my research and writing on the politics of Internet access and digital expression in Cuba. Read more of my work on half-wired, my blog, or follow me on Twitter.

Egyptian blogger, GVO author, GVO lingua translator, Meedan content producer, and an Engineer in the mornings.

I am a Europe based Iranian journalist, blogger and researcher. I joined Global Voices in summer 2005 and I used farid pouya and hamid tehrani as nicknames. I have been Iran Editor of Global Voices since 2006. I have also been involved with several digital projects such as Digiactive and March 18 Movement [Think Social award 2009]. I co edited and co wrote “Hope, Votes and Bullets” book about Iran's protest movement and social media. At present I am working in Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (Radio Farda) in Prague. Twitter: @fredpetrossian

Gaurav Mishra is the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet at Georgetown University. As the Yahoo! Fellow, Gaurav is leading research on how social media is being used in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Gaurav is also teaching a graduate course at Georgetown University on Social Media in Business, Development and Government.

Geral­dine works in the street and the inter­net. She focus in under­stand­ing the config­u­ra­tions and effects cre­ated when soci­ety, infor­ma­tion, pop culture, intel­lec­tual prop­erty and power col­lide.

I am a Zambian journalist and blogger who once fell out of favour with the MMD government for opposing a third term attempt of one of the country's president

Moroccan medical doctor,blogger and freedom of speech advocate.

Houwari Djilali is an Algerian blogger who blogs at the Algerian Review.

I've recently joined Global Voices as executive director. I've spent 10 years working in media development in the former Soviet Union and Asia, supporting and training journalists and working on media co-productions. Most of that time I was with Internews. I'm also a photographer, and have worked and traveled in more than 60 countries. I speak Russian, manage in German, have forgotten Slovak and Czech, and can make it home in Thai.

J. Nambiza Tungaraza is Adelaide-based Swahili blogger, radio presenter, community worker and an artist. In Radio he presents the AFROWORLD program at 101.5fm Radio Adelaide and coordinates/mentor young broadcasters. As an artist (painter and computer graphics designer), he has done exhibitions in Asia, Europe and in Australia. He still paints occasionally. Nambiza also works in various refugees-related projects.

Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher. He is currently employed by the University of Washington, and is a core member of the Tor project.

Jacob Mchangama is director of legal affairs at the Danish think tank CEPOS and an external lecturer in international human rights at the University of Copenhagen. He blogs regularly for the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende and is a frequent debate participant and expert commentator both in the print and electronic media. Jacob is also the founder and spokesperson for Fri Debat (Free Debate) a Danish organization committed to the protection and advocacy of freedom of expression.

Inspired to learn Portuguese by my father's collection of LPs from late 1960s Brazil. Lived in Brazil, Portugal and East Timor. Currently working with a development agency based in London, with frequent travel to Brazil, Mozambique and East Timor. Looking unusually serious in this photo.

I am a media producer based in Trinidad and Tobago. I blog at Francomenz.

Jeremy Clarke is a PHP, HTML, CSS and WordPress hacker from Montreal. He is the developer and designer of Global Voices, which he loves so much. His blog is at SimianUprising.com. To learn more about how Global Voices was built and designed see our Design and Tech page.

I am a writer, blogger, and activist based in Boston. I work at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and blog at jilliancyork.com.

I am a freelance writer currently residing in the Pacific.

I study international security. I've spent some time spent in Kazakhstan, and retained an obsession about the region. In addition to English, I speak French, and I am learning Russian at an abysmal pace when I’m not consumed with my day job.

I currently live in or around Washington, DC. In 2006 I was named, among others, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

I also blog at Registan.net, a blog devoted to Central Asia and the Caucasus.

I'm a peruvian blogger, and responsable of Blogsperu.com the website of peruvian bloggers. My personal weblog is Globalizado.

A native of Poland, Kasia studied law and cultural science in Germany and currently works and lives in Berlin in the NonProfit sector. She is passionate about citizen media, digital rights activism and modern communication. Kasia bloggs from time to time at http://someoneblonde.wordpress.com and tweets @kaodro

Katitza Rodriguez is EFF's international rights director. She concentrates on comparative policy of international privacy issues, with special emphasis on law enforcement, government surveillance, and cross border data flows. Katitza holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Lima, Peru.

I am a Venezuelan researcher in languages and literature, as well as a Translator and writer/editor living the savage urban life of Caracas. I blog at Sacando la Lengua [es] about languages, literature and cultural interaction. I'm happy to be also a volunteer translator for Lingua (Global Voices in Spanish). I deeply believe in the uniqueness and importance of every culture and in the study of them as a mirror to our own.

I am a: Female, Lebanese, Web Developer, Blogger, Editor @RTL-This, GVO Author(MENA) and Lingua Translator(Arabic)..interested in anything social/technical in the ME.

I´m a social media manager, activist and blogger based in Madrid, Spain. I write about human rights and the promotion of freedom of speech for different media and platforms, like Periodismo Humano.

Raised in Madagascar, Foko-Madagascar coordinator, Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy fellow, digital media for developing countries enthusiast.

PhD candidate // Geek // Obsessively curious // Feminist // Member of the Forum for Arab Culture in Bulgaria // Research assistant with UNESCO // In love with Egypt // Human being

Guatemalan expat living in Los Angeles. Enjoy playing with new gadgets. My latest acquisition is the Kindle 3.0.

Venezuelan lawyer and fiction writer. Blogger for Amnesty International on Human Rights issues. Interested in gender, poverty and work issues, and freedom of speech and information. You can find my ramblings and writings at my personal blog, La vida no trae instrucciones, and my articles about human rights and development issues, at Ex Cátedra.

Full-time broadcast journalist of a music television, media volunteer, communication and information enthusiast.
My personal blog:Remainder of Budapest

Mary Joyce is the co-founder of DigiActive, an organization dedicated to helping the world's grassroots activists better use technology. She ran her first digital activism web site, Demologue.com, from 2005 to 2007 while living in Morocco and Chile. She later became a digital activism consultant, working for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Her previous political experience includes the United States Congress, United Nations Association, and National Democratic Institute. Mary recently took a leave of absence from DigiActive to act as New Media Operations Manager at Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

I work on communications strategy, development and event building for the internet freedom and media reform movement. To connect you can reach me @MeraSB on Twitter or meraszendrobok.org

Mialy was born in Madagascar, attended college in France and is now living in the Washington DC area.
Her interests include litterature, ICT for Development, women rights and immigration issues.
She has graduate degrees in Telecommunications and Business.

A Biomedical Engineer, interested in VoIP, Mobile Technology and its relation with New Media. @globalvoices Author and Arabic Lingua co-Editor. Web2.0 preacher

Born in Dec 1987. Two published poetry collections. Grad student at SUNY Binghamton Comparative Literature program. B.A in English and Comparative Literature from the American University of Kuwait. Freelance writer/journalist and contributor for Globalvoicesonline.org, Jadaliyya.com & Migrant-rights.com - Blogging at http://monakareem.blogspot.com

I'm a Filipino activist. I write for UPI-Asia Online. I blog at www.mongpalatino.motime.com. I am currently in California.

HAMSA-AIC Civil Rights Outreach Director. A native of Mauritania, Nasser grew up in Libya and Syria, traveling extensively through the Middle East, before coming to the US as a refugee in 2000. A long-time activist in the struggle to end slavery in his homeland and dictatorship, Nasser has organized conferences for young activists across the Middle East; published in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Baltimore Sun; appeared on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, and Radio Liberty; and testified to Congress’ Human Rights Caucus. Fluent in five languages, Nasser has lectured at the US Institute of Peace, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and diverse interfaith settings.

I am a Tanzanian blogger, journalist, lawyer, and digital activist. I am interested in finding ways to amplify voices from non-English speaking parts of the world. Global voices, I believe, ought to be multicultural and multilingual.

I am also interested in the relationship between ICT and development in the developing world, particularly Africa.

I am the Sub-Saharan Africa Editor at Global Voices. I mostly blog in Kiswahili at Jikomboe. But you can also find me at Digital Africa.

An Egyptian journalist and editor of Tortureinegypt.net blog, I'm interested in human rights causes. My joy is to learn something new and to help others. I love Egypt and have been living in it, but i fell that my home country is the whole world!

Am now a free lance researcher, translator and editor, while my full time work (voluntary work) is with inmediahk.net (a Chinese citizen journalism website) , interlocals.net (a multi-lingual border-crossing citizen journalism website) and Hong Kong In-Media (citizen media center). I worked as journalist on political news (the handover of Hong Kong to China) from 1994-97; then joined an Asian NGO (Asian regional exchange for new alternatives) for their alternative education programme; later worked in Taiwan as managing editor for Inter-Asia cultural studies journal and then studied in Beijing for three year; now am more or less settled in Hong Kong.

Onnik Krikorian is a journalist and photojournalist of English and Armenia descent who has been resident in the Republic of Armenia since 1998. He also works extensively in Georgia and until moving to Yerevan worked on the Kurds in Turkey and the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh.

His articles and photographs have been published by The Los Angeles Times, New Internationalist, The Scotsman, Transitions Online, Middle East Insight, Oneworld.net, EurasiaNet, The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, New York University Press, UNICEF, and Amnesty International, among others. Krikorian has also worked as a fixer for Al Jazeera English, the BBC and The Wall Street Journal.

He maintains a blog from Armenia and the South Caucasus at http://blog.oneworld.am and also posts for the London-based Frontline Club at http://frontlineclub.com/blogs/onnikkrikorian.

Brazilian journalist and translator living in London. I blog about translation and Brazilian literature and poetry available in English [pt] and also keep a blog about our GVO coverage of the Lusosphere [pt]. I am also proud to be a volunteer translator for the Global Voices Lingua project in Portuguese.

I'm a blogger who is considering about Iran's issue.

I am always traveling in South East and East Asia. I work with education, commercial and non-profits helping them implement social technologies. I share my travel stories and observations at preetamrai.com .

I work for human rights. Interested in online media, digital activism and digital security. Editor of Egyptian Blog for Human Rights

Communication professor at the American University in Cairo. Widely published researcher with current main emphasis on online communication, political activism, and freedom of expression. www.rashaabdulla.com

I refer to myself as a person from Syria, not a “Syrian citizen.”
I am currently doing my MA's thesis on Iraqi Jews' literature in my beautiful city, Beirut.
I blog at Razanisms and I like to take photos.
I am a vegetarian and a proud socialist.

I conduct research, writing and advocacy on global Internet policy, free expression, and the impact of digital technologies on human rights. My first book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, will be published by Basic Books in late January 2012. After leaving a 12-year career in China and Japan with CNN, I co-founded Global Voices with Ethan Zuckerman in 2004, and have been working on citizen media projects and free speech advocacy ever since. I currently serve on GV's board. For more about me click here.

Lawyer, Lead of Creative Commons Guatemala, co - leading the initiative “Technology for Transparency Network” http://transparency.globalvoicesonline.org/ and advocating for free speech anytime, anywhere.

I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh and currently located in Berlin, Germany. I blog at The 3rd world view since 2003. I have been bridgeblogging the Bangladeshi and South Asian Blogosphere in Global Voices since 2005. I am also the translator coordinator for the Global Voices Bangla Lingua and love translating selected Global Voices posts into my mother tongue Bangla. I also like to follow the groundbreaking outreach projects of Rising Voices and write about them.

My personal blog is at [fikra] فكرة (which means idea in Arabic).
I'm the co-founder of nawaat.org (which means the core in Arabic), a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics.
I'm also the Advocacy Director at Global Voices.

The author is a part of Bolo Bhi (speak out) , an organization that focuses on advocacy,policy and research with internet freedom & privacy being one of their main focus areas. Blogger at The Guardian and Dawn. Her archive of published and unpublished work can be found on her personal blog.

I'm 33 years old, I live in Tunis, Tunisia, I'm married and I have beautiful son. I own a small consultancy doing web applications for entreprise. I'm also an activist against censorship, against intellectual property and for net neutrality. Follow me @slim404

Hello, I am the managing editor of Global Voices Online.

I have not much to say about myself, except that I’m a human being with a lot of opinions. On everything.

I am a Malawian who studies and writes about Pan-Afrikanism, Afrikan epistemology (uMunthu), the Afrikan Renaissance, and peace and social justice. I am also a student of autobiography, critical pedagogy, and critical literacy research. I am a former school teacher, freelance journalist, and educational editor. I write poetry, fiction, radio plays, and features. My blog, Afrika Aphukira (http://www.mlauzi.blogspot.com), is an optimistic expression of the theme of the African rebirth. I also follow Malawian blogs at Mlauzi' s Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mlauzi).

Hi, I'm Drima, an Afro-Arab, freedom-loving Muslim political junkie. Visit my blog over at this link: sudanesethinker.com

Susannah is a Co Founder of the Engine Room, an organization dedicated to investigating supporting the effective use of technology in advocacy. Connect with her on Twitter @szvila.

Born in Poland, studied in Hungary, currently located in the UK. Working in social media and WOM marketing ethics. Passionate blogger and photographer always interested in freedom of speech and other basic human rights.

Dr. Tal Pavel is an expert in Middle Eastern and Islamic World usage of the internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Bar Ilan University. His thesis examined the governmental restrictions and changes concerning internet usage in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between the years 2002 and 2005.

Dr. Pavel’s background also includes an in-depth knowledge of Information Systems Development. He occupied various key positions as a Software Project Manager and Software Systems Analyst in various major financial and other business institutions in Israel.

Dr. Pavel is a fellow researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and at Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (Both in Tel Aviv University).

http://www.middleeast-internet-monitor.com

An Egyptian Blogger and Tweep who happen to be a Data Networks Architect, a C++/Python Programmer in my spare time, and fond of Photography. I am addicted to Social Media, Social Networks, Social Web Applications, Sociology, and anything else with the word Social in it.

Tharum is a writer, photographer and computer nerd.

Trevor Timm is an activist and blogger for EFF.

I'm a Kyiv native; have lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg on and off since 2001. I blog at Neeka's Backlog; my current photos are at Flickr; nearly 4,600 photos from Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Istanbul are at Neeka's FotoPage; my Global Voices translations are stored on Work Log; some of my pre-blog/non-blog work has been Filed Away.

I am a 25 year old blogger, formerly the Assistant Editor of Committee to Protect Bloggers, a non profit which reported on threats and harrasment of bloggers, something much similar to what GVA does.
I hope to continue this work to make our online freedoms respected.

Walid Al-Saqaf is a print/online journalist turned cyber activist. He is the founder and administrator of Yemen Portal (yemenportal.net), a news and multi-content aggregator focused on content on his country (Yemen). His website got banned from access in Yemen by the authorities presumably for content the government considered harmful to ‘the national interest'. In response, he started an anti-censorship campaign (through blocked.arabiaportal.net) that resonated internationally. He currently stands as one of a few Arab cyber activists working on censorship circumventing technologies, the latest being the “Access YemenPortal” Firefox plug-in that was inspired by Iranian Hamed Saber's “Access Flickr!” extension. Walid holds a Master in Global Journalism and is currently pursuing his PhD at Örebro University in Sweden. He can be reached on admin [at] yemenportal [dot] net.

A blogger who concerns about free speech issues and writes on Netizen Report with Rebecca MacKinnon, Mera Szendro Bok and Sarah Myers. She worked as a journalist for Taiwanese newspapers and magazines on financial and legal news for several years.

Lawyer, coder, founder of ChillingEffects.org

WITNESS is an international organization that trains human rights defenders and activists to use video in their advocacy campaigns for change.

A Syrian blogger based between Latakia on the Medietrranean, and Nagoya, Japan. He blogs at: http://yazanbadran.com/blog/

I am a journalist and a human rights activist. I have a BA in Mass Communication (Concentration- Journalism). I live in Toronto, and I am currently one of the editors and writers of the Socialist Worker- Canada. I also publish in several online publications. Follow Yusur on Twitter @YusurAlBahrani