Rising Voices Nominated World’s Best Blog · Global Voices
Solana Larsen

Global Voices’ citizen media outreach project, Rising Voices has been nominated for a “Best of the Blogs Award” (B.O.B.) in the category “Best Weblog”. More than 8,500 weblogs were suggested for nomination and a jury selected the final 11 in each of 16 categories. Anyone can cast their votes online for their favorite blogs until November 26, 2008.
Deutsche Welle wish to give special attention to the promotion of freedom of information and expression around the world.
Rising Voices is a project that has provided micro-grant funding for more than a dozen community blogging projects in some of the most under-represented parts of the world (thanks to a grant from the Knight News Challenge).
Through the people in this amazing community, we've learned about social unrest in Bolivia through Voces Bolivianas’ bloggers, we've gotten to know the new bloggers in Nakuru, Kenya from the REPACTED project, and in Romania from the Blogging the Dream project.
(Watch this video, and you'll know who to vote for…)
In an email to all of the Rising Voices community (join here) on October 27, David Sasaki, Global Voices’ Director of Outreach said:
Get this: some kind soul nominated Rising Voices as the Best Weblog (in the world!) for this year's BOB's contest. (That stands for Best of Blogs.) I am sure that many of you are aware that there are almost as many blog awards as there are blogs, but the BOBs contest has long been the most recognized internationally. We are tremendously proud to be listed among such fine company as Generación Y and Scienceblogs.de. You can cast your votes here and view the results here.
The B.O.B. competition recognizes blogs and podcasts produced in Arabic, Chinese, German, English, French, Dutch, Farsi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. You can see a world map of all of the proposed candidates on the awards website.
On Global Voices, Juliana Rincon has written about some of the nominated video bloggers.
Cast your votes before November 26!