Solana Larsen is the managing editor at Global Voices, an online community of bloggers and digital activists. Global Voices emphasizes the awareness of citizen media, a topic highlighted in the IPI World Congress 2011 session entitled “Taiwan’s PeoPo Project – A Model for Citizen Journalism in the Future.” IPI: Can you briefly describe what Global […]

As a nine-year-old child in North Korea, Chol-Hwan Kang was sent with his family to a concentration camp after his grandfather was accused of treason. The next 10 years were a constant struggle to stay alive. He ate rats to survive. He watched friends die from exhaustion and hunger. Kang attributes his escape to South […]

Bill Powell is Fortune magazine’s China bureau chief and Asia editor. He has been based in Shanghai for the past six years, and reported in Beijing from 2000 to 2001. IPI spoke to him at the 2011 IPI World Congress in Taipei, Taiwan. IPI: What do you see as the main trend or next big […]

At the IPI World Congress 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, attention on Monday focused on the role of social media as a catalyst for the ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions. Speaking on a panel titled “Social Media Revolutions: The Media and the Uprisings in North Africa, the Middle East, and Elsewhere”, Global Post founder Charles Sennott said: “When […]