International Podcasts

On the eve of Iran?s Presidential elections, I tracked down Mr. Behi in Teheran. (For consolidated blog coverage of the elections from within Iran - including election coverage from Hoder - as well as analysis from without, Iran Scan is a must-read.) Ad

This is a 2-part interview with author Roy Moxham, who wrote, ?The Great Hedge of India: The Search for a Living Barrier That Divided a Nation?, and ?Tea: Addiction, Exploitations and Empire?. Mr. Moxham recently retired from the University of London

Thomas Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize winner, who writes extensively for The New York Times. Friedman?s latest book, ?The World is Flat: A brief history of the 21st century,? deals with that top of the mind subject: Globalization. He talks of how globali

Prof. Charlie Nesson, co-founder of the Berkman Center and enthusiastic Global Voices supporter, recently traveled to China. He and internet radio journalist Ben Walker made a podcast in which they interviewed a Chinese blogger who uses his blog to comm

Ahmad Humeid is a Jordanian entrepreneur, newspaper columnist, graphic designer, information architect and, to the best of his knowledge, the first Jordanian podcaster, perhaps the first podcaster in the Middle East. He and I took a few minutes after a co

A few days ago at the video blogging/podcasting workshop I conducted near the University of Ghana, I was interviewed by a journalist from Radio Ghana. I checked out various news casts several times, but never heard it, so I figured I must have missed it o

Yesterday afternoon, a group of us began the drive back to Accra from Patriensa. As you?ll see in a future blog entry, our car broke down and we spent hours hobbling back to Accra, towed by a feed truck whose tow rope kept breaking from the front of the c

My latest podcast from Ghana explaining why I?ve been offline since Friday afternoon. Music by Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy, from his album Afieye Okropong, used with permission from Alula Records. -andy

Here?s an extended podcast updating my whereabouts in Ghana. Special thanks to Alula Records for allowing me to use music from Ghanaian musician Obo Addy. I?ll be featuring Obo?s work in future podcasts and videos as well. -andy

Lawyer Andrea Monti, who blogs in Italian at ICTlex, is winner in the Europe category of this year?s RSF Freedom Blog Awards. Monti is concerned that people in Western democracies are not sufficiently aware of the extent to which their freedoms of speec

I?ve just completed an interview with Leopold Armah and Regina Banini of Ghana?s WSIS Youth Caucus, chatting about the role of African youth in the UN?s World Summit on the Information Society. Have a listen to the podcast. -andy

Chinese blogger Haxi (left) has interviewed the Hangzhou-based blogger, Leylop (right), one of the early Chinese bloggers to blog in English. Here is Leylop?s account of the intervew. You can listen to it here (MP3, 5MB). UPDATE: Halley Xie points ou

The Iranian blogger who calls himself ?Mr. Behi? and blogs at The Adventures of Mr. Behi, is now podcasting. In his inaugural show, he gives his personal perspective about the bombings in London, Iran?s presidential election, and his recent misadventures

Our friend Clark Boyd - podcaster and reporter for BBC/WGBH?s The World - has a great audio profile of our friend Sokari Ekine, creator of the excellent Black Looks blog. Travelling in rural Spain, Clark gets to visit Sokari at home at her farm in Velez-B

Today?s Global Voices Skypecast is with German blogger and activist Markus Beckedahl, author of Netzpolitik: a German-language blog about open source technologies, Internet-users’ rights and free expression in cyberspace. He is one of seven winners of t

After hanging up the Skypeout call with Gustave of the Lebanese Political Journal, I called the Beirut cellphone of his co-blogger who goes by the blog-name ?Lebanon.Profile.? LP prefers not to have his name revealed. As he explains in our conversation,

In the wake of an election victory for Lebanon?s anti-Syrian alliance and the asassination of another anti-Syrian politician, I spoke to two Beirut-based bloggers who author the popular blog, Lebanese Political Journal. My first interview was with blogg

Video documentary of my July 2005 visit to the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam, Ghana. I learn about the challenges faced by Liberians forced to flee their homeland, as well as some of the training programs available to them. I visit one of the camp?s

Video montage of a telecentre based at a girls school in Comilla, Bangladesh. The telecentre is run by Relief International?s Schools Online program, which coordinates 20 telecentres across the country.

Video of bicycle rickshaw traffic in Comilla, Bangladesh.