Voci Globali a sentire (intervista con Bernardo Parrella di Global Voices) 
Bernardo Parrella at the festival of journalism (Perugia)
Global Voices is an ambitious project in new media where you can find the best blogs around the world, translated into many languages. A week ago they organized a summit on citizen journalism in Santiago de Chile with the details - Bernardo Parrella - edittore the Italian version of GV.
- as Alexa.com, the rank of GlobalVoices and decreased to 20% during the last month. How many people (users) attending GV in the world and in Italy in particular?
- Meanwhile, every online statistics should always be taken with extreme caution, and then the news GV are taken daily by many other sites, blogs, etc.., Raise variously on newspapers and online sites, pass between people and other situations in the world, however, roughly every month, the English website of GV than 300,000 unique visitors, with an average of 10,000 unique visitors a day, but the peak and 'had during the earthquake in Haiti, with over 33,000 visitors Unique daily, over 60,000 posts published in 5 years, with 62,000 comments.
For the Italian site May 2010, more than 1,400 published articles, with more than 12,000 unique visitors and a total daily average of nearly 700. The Facebook group has exceeded 750 members, plus another 280 subscribers to the weekly newsletter, and more than a hundred follow us on Twitter. The Daily Mail are taken online and are active in various ways different trade-link (with Metro News, Comet, Agoravox.it, Alternative Press Blog, Indian nation, Italians, and other magazines). Since February 2010 we also launched Global Voices, with LaStampa.it side project, where every day we follow and translate the best of the international blogosphere.
- me, the most significant events coperti da GV erano i terremoti ad Haiti. Come si esprime la importanza sociale quando GV sceglie le notizie per la sua "agenda"? Forse, c'erano alcuni casi quando il sito dava l'importanza a quelli eventi che non erano notati dai media tradizionali e potenti?
-- "Obiettivo centrale di GV e' quello di aggregare, far conoscere e amplificare la conversazione globale che avviene online - mettendo in evidenza luoghi e persone che gli altri media spesso ignorano." Come ribadisce questo che e' un po' la definizione di GV, certamente ogni giorno puntiamo soprattutto a dare spazio a eventi e voci poco riportati dalle testate tradizionali; e su Haiti siamo stati tra i primi to inform on what he said and asked the people affected by the earthquake, not by chance that GV was the peak of contacts in those days, in addition to having sent a delegation to Haiti to determine whether and how to help develop the citizen media in those days.
Beyond 'of the international coverage of such events, however,' the Daily Mail link just to highlight the everyday social issues more 'current, hot and often "forget" are the focus of our editorial choices, the rights Arab Human environmental problems in Mongolia from restrictions on freedom 'of expression in China, and more.
- How You determine the order of the day - because we publish articles and do not publish other people?
addition to the existing 'international in the strict sense, the choices depend on the regional editor, together with the authors interested in specific issues, the following issues and local situations and then decide on possible articles to be published every day and then pass the decision the director, and 'a short active real news editor, which works only on a voluntary and exclusively online, GV has no office or physical location.
- How many visitors will harm the social networks - this is a good medium to attract readers to you?
- The majority of visits to the English site comes from search engines, either directly or by those who follow our newsletters and the like, but the presence of GV on Facebook, Twitter and similar social network will be safe to increase the visibility 'general, however, these areas are important also and above all to establish a continuous and open dialogue with people from all over the world interested in the social-political themes, followed by GV, and many also choose to work with GV after having found on social networks
- What interesting results, according to you, discovered the Citizen Media Summit in Santiago?
- In short, the event has confirmed the growing importance of share unfiltered information, and knowledge base among people from all over the world, given that at least 200 participants came from 60 countries with dozens of different languages as well as to reaffirm the important contribution made by social media is in emergency situations, as in the recent earthquake and its reconstruction is still ongoing in Chile, it rings as a tool for everyday citizens to talk directly and in this sense, and we 'talked about little known but crucial projects to enable social change locally, such as Mongolia Nomad Green, Hiperbarrio Colombia, Liberia Ceasefire, or the challenges of blogger in Gaza. To find other words that each of us, even in its small way, can 'take concrete steps to change things, maybe from the spread of such news to the rest of the world - and therefore the potential' of citizen media in the landscape and cultural information are still enormous, which is why the partnership should be intensified with the "mainstream media" of any kind.
Another important, the need 'to create an Internet more and more' multilingual in order to overcome the linguistic analysis and cultural barriers that still divide countries and pernene the "global village". No coincidence that the Daily News Global Voices are translated - rather, localized and contextualized - In 17 different languages (other than occasional 12) from volunteer translators, meeting in the Language Project.
- In your opinion, what is the future of these projects like Global Voices? Maybe I'm wrong, but I do not see that people are interested in events from another world (I mean the least developed countries)?
- but I think that there is a growing interest of people to events or geographically dispersed in different countries in the developing world, just look at the case of the earthquake in Haiti or the drama of these days in Bangkok. The point, if anything, and 'that in information overload today (especially in the western world) the news end up losing and then insist that becomes central and decentralized projects to meet common as GV individuals and involve them in social change. In fact 'that there are countless similar projects (including international) based on citizen media, such as Global Post, Agoravox, Huffington Post, etc..
The same network of community-GV is increasing, including Threatened and Advocacy Voices, site-design in the interests of free speech in the world, Rising Voices, an initiative aimed at giving visibility to specific groups and communities through citizen media. Perhaps even more 'important today are the same as traditional newspapers are looking for collaboration and integration with various projects legati al citizen journalism - nel caso di Global Voices Italiano, ad esempio, dal febbraio scorso abbiamo avviato Voci Globali, progetto parallelo con LaStampa.it, dove ogni giorno seguiamo e traduciamo il meglio della blogosfera internazionale.
