hacktivist's blog

There is an old chinese proverb that says "有志者，事竟成, yǒu zhì zhe, shì jìng chén," which in English translates to mean "As long as you have the will, you can succeed."

For bloggers in China where Internet censorship is a daily fact of life, and whose posts often risk being filtered, or getting deleted by the government censors, this old Chinese proverb has taken on a new meaning. In the case of some Chinese bloggers, "where there is censorship, there is also a will to circumvent."

Over the last week of June 27-28, diverse groups of citizen bloggers, civil society organizations, and free speech activists from around the world gathered in Budapest, Hungary for the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit. A yearly summit, this year's Global Voices summit focused on the theme of “Citizen Media and Citizenhood, and explored fundamental issues surrounding the actual, and potential role of citizen media producers in the public life of the countries they live in." For more information see http://summit08.globalvoicesonline.org/about/