The BOBs honor blogs that promote the exchange of ideas and freedom of expression. Submissions to the contest can be in the any of the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
This year’s big winners of the BOBs were:
• Wael Ghonim for the Facebook Page “We are all Khaled Said” in the category of Best Social Activism Campaign
• The YouTube Channel “Stands with Fist” for the Best Video Channel
• Pavel Senko for the online community Rospil in the category of Best Use of Technology for Social Good
• Judith Torrea for the blog “Ciudad Juarez, in the shadow of the drug trafficking” in the category of the Reporters Without Borders Award.
By: Carmen Paun
