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Let’s hear it for the G20 bloggers

24 September 2009 by

As you must be aware, the G20 Summit is underway in Pittsburgh. But you might not know is that there are a bunch of people passionate about social justice and the environment blogging from inside the summit under the banner of G20Voice. The idea of the G20Voice initiative is that it “Amplifies bloggers’ voices to hold […]

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My question to Barack Obama – a reflection on the G20 Summit

3 April 2009 by

Image credit: Daudi Were of mentalacrobatics Apologies to pure colalife-ers as this is a bit off topic. To everyone else these words are from a bystander who was privileged to have been able to watch, first-hand, the culmination of the G20 Summit. I am certainly not qualified to be a political blogger. But here are […]

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The G20 Summit communique in a wordle

2 April 2009 by

If you go to wordle.net and paste in the text of the G20 Summit communique, this is what you get. I would have preferred if words like JUSTICE, CHANGE and CLIMATE had featured – I can’t believe they don’t.

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A conversation with Tom Watson at the G20 Summit

2 April 2009 by

Tom Watson was the first MP to start blogging and he is still going here. He’s carried a link on his blog to the ColaLife Campaign since the very early days and we follow each other on Twitter. So, in a way, I feel I know him pretty well but we’ve only met fleetingly twice […]

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Which way for bloggers?

2 April 2009 by

We, the G20voice bloggers, have just arrived at the Press Centre at the G20 Summit and this was the first challenge that faced us. Which way should bloggers go? I now realise how new this experience is. We are definitely NOT part of the mainstream and lots of traditions have been broken to get us […]

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ColaLife at the G20 Summit – G20 Voice – London – 2/4/09

31 March 2009 by

I’ll be blogging here: colalife.org/blog and Tweeting here: twitter.com/51m0n All blog posts and tweets with by tagged with g20voice So far I’ve posted on: ColaLife is off to the G20 Summit! G20 Voice: Folding in the edges? Matthew Taylor on globalisation and the G20 Keep an eye on those G20 Voice bloggers! Let’s mash it […]

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Dame Barbara Stocking on ColaLife

28 March 2009 by

I was asked to pop down to the headquarters of Oxfam GB today to put Yoosk.com users’ questions to Dame Barbara Stocking, Oxfam’s CEO, in the build up to the G20 Summit. While I was there I had to ask her for her views on ColaLife and the AidPod. Unfortunately, there was a technical clitch […]

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ColaLife is off to the G20 Summit!

11 March 2009 by

Thanks to the support of Facebook Group members I am off to the G20 Summit! I heard today that the nomination to be a member of the G20voice team of bloggers from around the world had been approved by Number 10. This is huge honour and responsibility which I will be taking very seriously. If […]

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Can we get ColaLife INSIDE the G20 Summit?

7 March 2009 by

There is an opportunity to get ColaLife INSIDE the G20 Summit but it would need to be nominated. Is anyone up for doing that? If you are, please nominate ColaLife here. This initiative, called G20Voice, has been initiated by Oxfam (GB) who are looking to gather 50 bloggers from around the world to report from […]

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