Ivan Sigal

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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.

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18 January 2012

U.S. Bills Could Threaten the Global Internet

Written by Ivan Sigal · USA

At Global Voices, we understand that we, collectively, are the Internet. Our individual participation is what makes the Internet a global conversation of startling depth and variety, but this is...

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27 October 2011

Libya: Foreign Hackers and Surveillance

Written by Ivan Sigal · Libya, Middle East & North Africa

In the wake of the fall of Tripoli, reporters, researchers, and former employees of the Libyan Telecom and Technology company have been uncovering and sharing details about how the Libyan government surveilled and monitored internet and phone networks.

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3 February 2010

Global Voices and Google announce freedom of expression award jury

Written by Ivan Sigal · Global

The Breaking Borders Award is a new prize created by Google and Global Voices and supported by Thomson Reuters to honor outstanding web projects initiated by individuals or groups that...

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4 November 2008

Corporations Agree to Standards for Internet Freedom

Written by Ivan Sigal · Advocacy

The Global Network Initiative has been launched. The Initiative is a code of conduct for corporations on privacy and free speech created by a coalition of human rights, media development and research organizations, and Internet and communications companies such as Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Its goal: to ensure that ICT companies acknowledge their “responsibility to respect and protect the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users.”

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