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Taiwan: Bloggers Festival

Categories: East Asia, Taiwan (ROC), Arts & Culture, Digital Activism

Taiwan Bloggers BoF [1], the biggest blogger festival in Taiwan is about to take place on April 14, 2007.

BoF was first held in 2005, and named for “Birds of a feather”. In 2006, hundreds of bloggers participated in the 2nd BoF, in which a talk was given by Rebecca MacKinnon [2], co-founder of GVO, to share her experience in the media, why she left CNN [3] and joined the family of Global Voice Online [4].

In the upcoming 3rd meeting [5], Leonard [6], the acting coordinator of Global Voices Chinese [7] Team, will give a briefing at the session: Citizen Journalism [8](zh). He will introduce what GV Chinese is and how bloggers in Taiwan can take part in this project. Other organizations such as Peepo (a platform organized by Taiwan Public Television Service [9]) and Wikinews [10] will introduce their status, too. Several international bloggers in Taiwan will also be invited to provide their points of view at this session.