Brazil

A long week at the United Nations is over. The morning was spent in the back of the conference room listening to the diplomats adjusting typos and commas and unsuccessfully seeking substantive changes to the chair’s final report of the meeting.

Again, the representative from Nigeria described the feeling in the room the best when he said that the report was being adopted by all with “even distribution of dissatisfaction”. A new negotiation model, he said he wanted to chair with his former International Relations professor.

So what does it all mean?

Rodrigo Alvares is 28 years old, born and raised in Porto Alegre (southern Brazil).

He created the political weblog A Nova Corja (The New Scum) five years ago to exercise new kinds of journalistic coverage while in college. A natural born reporter, he works to find out all about the corruption of Brazilian politicians and tries to stimulate readers to take responsibility to act.

Moblog is a web and mobile community where people document their lives from their mobile phones. We make it easy to send in pictures and texts or video, and people can even just call in their posts. Moblog works alongside NGO's such as Greenpeace UK, Amnesty International and Oxfam GB to explore ways for people to easily engage with campaigns via their mobiles. The G20Voice project represents an amazing opportunity to give people around the world a voice that can be heard at the G20 Summit, and that's where Moblog and our voice partner Spinvox come in.

Through the Spinvox voice to text service and Moblog's mobile blogging platform, we are able to provide a service enabling people all over the world to simply call a local number to ask a world leader attending the summit a question. The technology converts the speech to text, and posts it along with the audio to the G20Voice moblog. All of the questions asked will be collated and the best of them will be asked directly of the world leaders to whom they are posed. The bloggers at the event are your voice, all you need to do is ask the question that matters to you most by calling the relevant number below:
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