Twilight Fairy had a nice time at the recent Global Voices Online Summit 2006 held in Delhi, where she also met up with many bloggers,including “the usual Delhi bloggers gang.”

16th of Dec saw me wrapping up a couple of chores first before finally reaching the venue – India Habitat Centre. One just needed to enter the room to realise that it was blogging at its best. Most people were carrying laptops and were furiously typing away, either writing accounts or uploading pictures. Though I was carrying my laptop, I soon realised that it was practically futile since the wireless connection wasn’t too strong for some reason. The conference discussed the blogging outreach that had been referred to and a presentation was given by some people who had tried implementing outreach somehow.

Update: Fellow Blogbhartian Shivam Vij ponders on Global Voices (GV) in general and the Delhi event in particular. Thought-provoking post with a lovely title.

There were concerns about reaching out. Computers are accessible to the elites of every country. How do we hear what farmers in India or street kids in Vietnam had to say? While internet on mobile phones may help widen access, there was also in the room Samuel Klein, head of the One Laptop Per Child project. English is not what most of the world talks in. There is already a Chinese GV, and there are a handful editors who read posts in other languages and discuss them in English.