Ivan Sigal | World Bank Institute (WBI)

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Ivan Sigal

Global Voices

Ivan Sigal is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a non-profit online global citizens’ media initiative. Previously, as a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Sigal focused on how increased media and information access and participation using new technologies affect conflict-prone areas.

He spent over ten years working in media development in the former Soviet Union and Asia, supporting journalism, media regulatory reform, and working on media co-productions. During that time Sigal worked for Internews Network, as Regional Director for Asia, Central Asia, and Afghanistan. In that capacity Sigal designed and implemented dozens of media assistance projects, including helping to create more than 30 Afghan-run radio stations and building an independent Afghan radio network; a project to provide humanitarian information to victims of the 2005 South Asian earthquake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir; a post-2004 tsunami humanitarian information radio program in Sri Lanka, legal and civil society reporting programs for Chinese journalists, and numerous current affairs TV programs for Central Asian audiences.

Read his article, New Media: Challenging the Establishment.