# Emergent Democracy Worldwide

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-02-10T08:34:11Z


Ethan prepared some notes for our session which starts in 2.5 hours.
The conversation so far:

Ethan's 
critique of "Second Superpower", "Emergent Democracy"

Joi's 
response, on finding the next Salam Pax

Examples of emergent 
democracy from Joi 
and Ethan's 
readers

Views from the rest of the world

Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian pied 
piper for blogs

IranFilter - translated 
overview of 100,000 persian language blogs

Living on the Planet - 
global blog content aggregator

Narconews - trilingual news on 
the drug war

BlogAfrica

BlogAfrica catalog and 
aggregator

Adam 
Chambas's Accra Crisis Blog

Rebecca MacKinnon's NKZone - alternative reporting from 
North Korea

Oh My News, 
South Korea's brilliant citizen journalism project

Ghana Web, news and opinion

Subang Jaya e-news from 
Malaysia

Blogalization, content in 
translation from blogs around the world


Efforts to build 
cross-cultural dialogue, give a voice to people in developing 
nations

Open Knowledge 
Network content from the developing world, for the developing 
world. And, in Kiswahili

Voices04 Voices for folks without 
a voice in the 2004 election

SARS Watch. Became a platform 
for Chinese voices on SARS to communicate, uncensored

Taking IT 
Global

Kabissa - online 
discussion for African NGOs

What could we do we do:

Online legislation in Estonia

SARI - 
leading application became lobbying regional government via wireless 
internet.

Cellphones, talk radio and election monitoring in 
Ghana

Smart mobs, SMS in Kenya

What does a cellphone-based 
anticorruption system look like?

How do we launch OhMyNews in 
every nation




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#### Categories

Emergent Democracy, Global Politics