Let’s face it—citizen media projects quite often focus on one of a few common goals, like giving voice to a marginalized people, or freedom of speech, or promoting government transparency. These are all extremely valuable goals, but they’re more concerned with politics than development. Does that mean social media has nothing to offer to development issues, like the ones that Global Citizen Corps leaders work on?
Of course not! Citizen media can also be very beneficial to development projects, and some of the projects highlighted at the 2010 Global Voices Citizen Media Summit proved that in a number of fields.
For the past three and a half weeks, eight public high school students from Brooklyn, New York performed their student written play, Stories from the Subway for the clients of the 
Students from accross the U.S. converged in Portland, Oregon for the Global Citizen Corps Annual Leadership Summit. Check out some photos from their week!
On June 22nd, we had the very exciting privilege of witnessing the true power of technology and an excellent example of our ability to take action locally as see the impact globally!
Many of the nearly 200 Lebanese youth who gathered to mark the beginning of a campaign against climate change were also Global Citizen Corps leaders, present at an event so big that it attracted the attention of Lebanon’s biggest English-language newspaper, T
Hundreds of volunteers sustain the work of the NGO 
GCC leaders in Kalar, Iraq have been very active lately! Watch their video to find out more about what they've been working on, from raising awareness about the importance of education to presenting a play about women's rights.
One of the many interesting discussions at the 
