It sounds like a pitch for a reality TV show. Eight strangers thrown together in an exotic location with live updates of their progress available - where else? - on the internet.

But forget Big Brother. Meet "Big Blogger", an ambitious British Council initiative in which an unlikely combination of western and Middle Eastern journalists will join forces to report from the ground at the first World Summit on the Information Society.

The journalists - most of them twentysomething and with no previous experience of web-logging - will be responsible for a single news site, http://www.dailysummit.net, providing instant news and comment from the three-day event in Geneva in December. The summit, which will attempt to do for the global "digital divide" what last year's earth summit in Johannesburg sought for sustainable development, will reconvene for a second phase in Tunisia in 2005.
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WSIS-Weblog: http://www.dailysummit.net/
British Council: http://www.britishcouncil.org/
World Summit: http://www.itu.int/wsis/
[ Via: onlinejournalism.com ]