Yoani Sánchez ranked among top ‘Global Thinkers’
Cuban blogger and 2010 Prince Claus Laureate Yoani Sánchez has been named by the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her posts on life on the island, “from Raúl Castro’s latest pronouncements to the taste of mangoes.”
Sánchez (1975, Havana) is a leading figure in the use of social networking technologies to breach imposed frontiers. A graduate in philology, she is now dedicated to computer sciences and their capacity to alter perceptions and generate social change. She works as a webmaster, columnist and editor for Desde Cuba, an online news portal. Determined to promote freedom of information and to speak out regardless of danger, in 2007, Yoani Sánchez set up a blog, Generation Y.
With her usual sharp wit, Sánchez sent a tweet Tuesday saying, “Beautiful paradoxes of life. My name on FP list of 100 thinkers, and now I am ‘thinking’ of how to make the rice last until the end of the month.”
Sánchez ranked No. 81 on the list, described as “a unique portrait of 2011’s global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them,” published in the December issue of Foreign Policy, part of the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC, in Washington.
In 2010 the Prince Claus Fund granted Yoani Sánchez with the Prince Claus Award for raising global awareness of daily Cuban realities through her blog, for her inspiring and courageous example in giving a voice to the silenced, and for demonstrating the immense impact internet communications technologies can have as tools for social change and development.
This year another influential blogger, Tsering Woeser (1966, Lhasa), is granted with the Prince Claus Award. Woeser is a courageous Tibetan writer, who offers unique perspectives on the complexities of Tibet today. She is honoured for her courage in speaking for those who are silenced and oppressed, for her compelling combination of literary quality and political reportage, for recording, articulating and supporting Tibetan culture, and for her active commitment to self-determination, freedom and development in Tibet.
"A courageous example in giving voice to the silenced"
2010 jury rapport about Yoani Sánchez
Jury Report 2010 Prince Claus Awards word - 0.33 MB
Jury Report 2010 Prince Claus Awards
Yoani Sánchez ranked among top ‘Global Thinkers’title
Cuban blogger and 2010 Prince Claus Laureate Yoani Sánchez has been named by the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her posts on life on the island, “from Raúl Castro’s latest pronouncements to the taste of mangoes.”
Sánchez (1975, Havana) is a leading figure in the use of social networking technologies to breach imposed frontiers. A graduate in philology, she is now dedicated to computer sciences and their capacity to alter perceptions and generate social change. She works as a webmaster, columnist and editor for Desde Cuba, an online news portal. Determined to promote freedom of information and to speak out regardless of danger, in 2007, Yoani Sánchez set up a blog, Generation Y.
With her usual sharp wit, Sánchez sent a tweet Tuesday saying, “Beautiful paradoxes of life. My name on FP list of 100 thinkers, and now I am ‘thinking’ of how to make the rice last until the end of the month.”
Sánchez ranked No. 81 on the list, described as “a unique portrait of 2011’s global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them,” published in the December issue of Foreign Policy, part of the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC, in Washington.
In 2010 the Prince Claus Fund granted Yoani Sánchez with the Prince Claus Award for raising global awareness of daily Cuban realities through her blog, for her inspiring and courageous example in giving a voice to the silenced, and for demonstrating the immense impact internet communications technologies can have as tools for social change and development.
This year another influential blogger, Tsering Woeser (1966, Lhasa), is granted with the Prince Claus Award. Woeser is a courageous Tibetan writer, who offers unique perspectives on the complexities of Tibet today. She is honoured for her courage in speaking for those who are silenced and oppressed, for her compelling combination of literary quality and political reportage, for recording, articulating and supporting Tibetan culture, and for her active commitment to self-determination, freedom and development in Tibet.
Yoani Sánchez ranked among top ‘Global Thinkers’title
Cuban blogger and 2010 Prince Claus Laureate Yoani Sánchez has been named by the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her posts on life on the island, “from Raúl Castro’s latest pronouncements to the taste of mangoes.”
Sánchez (1975, Havana) is a leading figure in the use of social networking technologies to breach imposed frontiers. A graduate in philology, she is now dedicated to computer sciences and their capacity to alter perceptions and generate social change. She works as a webmaster, columnist and editor for Desde Cuba, an online news portal. Determined to promote freedom of information and to speak out regardless of danger, in 2007, Yoani Sánchez set up a blog, Generation Y.
With her usual sharp wit, Sánchez sent a tweet Tuesday saying, “Beautiful paradoxes of life. My name on FP list of 100 thinkers, and now I am ‘thinking’ of how to make the rice last until the end of the month.”
Sánchez ranked No. 81 on the list, described as “a unique portrait of 2011’s global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them,” published in the December issue of Foreign Policy, part of the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC, in Washington.
In 2010 the Prince Claus Fund granted Yoani Sánchez with the Prince Claus Award for raising global awareness of daily Cuban realities through her blog, for her inspiring and courageous example in giving a voice to the silenced, and for demonstrating the immense impact internet communications technologies can have as tools for social change and development.
This year another influential blogger, Tsering Woeser (1966, Lhasa), is granted with the Prince Claus Award. Woeser is a courageous Tibetan writer, who offers unique perspectives on the complexities of Tibet today. She is honoured for her courage in speaking for those who are silenced and oppressed, for her compelling combination of literary quality and political reportage, for recording, articulating and supporting Tibetan culture, and for her active commitment to self-determination, freedom and development in Tibet.
