cafebabel.com | : news, features, surveys and opinions

Since 2001, cafebabel.com has been aggregating your voices to sound out issues in the mobile and open Europe that we share. Today, our latest site developments mean that everything is focussed exclusively on your 'babelprofile' – so log in at the top right hand corner of the magazine and start participating directly in this ongoing citizen journalism adventure

You're one step away from become a 'babelian' – as part of one of the most European online communities, you are 100% contributing to the development and enrichment of a real transnational dialogue

What are you waiting for – we want to hear what you think. Sign up!

Your profile

The motherboard: from this webpage you can access all of the various collaborative elements of the website, including calls for writers and calls for translators. It also stores a public compilaton of all of your contributions. You get your own 'inbox'. You can also 'geolocate' yourself on a map and see who your neighbouring babelians are, and let us know who you are and what your own blog or website is

Call for writers

Keep an eye on the issues firing through Europe and which end up as hot rocks on the cafebabel editorial desks. Be they sizzling news stories or deeper philosophical debates, short anecdotes or ideological questions – it's up to you to bring these national irritations into a pan-European context. React, discuss, propose your own angles or information bites

cafebabel.com is uniquely made up of your online contributions – but chances are that you might be living in a city or town or area where we have other babelians who talk about more local issues – contact our local teams of engaged volunteers in various European locations

Translate

Participate in a polyglot, cosmopolitan Europe: volunteer to translate for cafebabel.com into your native tongue and build up your own translation portfolio. From your profile, click on the 'calls for translation' tab and you will find a list of articles in the magazine awaiting translation into your mother tongue (which would be one of the six official languages of cafebabel.com). Choose the article you like with the help of subject and original language filters. Do contact the editorial team to inform them before translating – then you can re-upload the piece inside your profile and its back to Paris where your translation will be checked and approved

Hold a dialogue

We sent Big Brother home; you wonderful people can now communicate between yourselves. Editors, translators, writers, local team members, bloggers, photographers, readers and dissenters can now send each other private or public messages via the 'babelprofiles'

Propose a draft of an article you'd like to write

A google-catchy title, a short and damning subtitle, your main argument, your conclusion plus intended sources, interviewees, opinions and statistics – paste this information into the 'propose a text' tab on your babelprofile, and submit it for the editors in Paris to validate. If it doesn't make the cut, we'll let you know why. All articles will be eligible for potential publication on cafebabel.com as long as they adhere to the principles mapped out in the cafebabel.com editorial charter. Express yourselves, share your ideas, your opinions, your experiences. Be original, check and double-check your facts and sources and we are go!

Babelblogs

These are blogs by you, hosted by us on cafebabel.com's multilingual platform. Designed for those of you who think beyond borders and are active, mobile, alert and inspired. Here for you to open, contribute to, translate for. If you have an inkling that there may be a blogger in you, click here to find out more .