To close the first day at the Global Voices 2010 summit, Bob Boorstin from Google and Ivan Sigal of Global Voices announce the Breaking Borders award. We’re inaugurating the award this year, which offers $10,000 grants to projects and individuals that support freedom of expression, recognizes it as a fundamental human right and connects freedom of expression to governance. Google and Thompson Reuters are providing support for the award, and Global Voices and Google have convened a jury to select the recipients.

Boorstin notes that forty countries are currently censoring the internet – “As far as Google is concerned, that’s forty countries too many.” Ivan Sigal notes that the award helps commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and connects the end of[...]

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