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Democracy In Haiti? Our workshop with Haitian Women To Prepare For November Elections Democracy In Haiti? Our workshop with Haitian Women To Prepare For November Elections
We are dying from the dust their fancy cars kick up. Voting won’t change anything. We don’t live like the rest of the world. When we vote we always regret it.–Statements by women participants at Dd citizen reporting training in Port Au Prince Oct. 26-28, 2010 about the upcoming Haitian elections Read more…
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Announcing support from US Institute of Peace for Haiti Program Announcing support from US Institute of Peace for Haiti Program
We are thrilled to announce support from United States Institute of Peace for our work with grassroots Haitian Women’s groups. Thanks to an urgent grant from their Haiti program, we are launching a citizen reporting initiative for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Haiti, scheduled for November 28. Read more…
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Discussing the Present and Future of Open Video Discussing the Present and Future of Open Video
Video is changing as more and more people have the ability to be creators. This provides unlimited potential for new ideas and methods in video, a prospect that is exciting to me as someone who works daily in the fields of old and new media. Read more…
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Google’s Internet at Liberty Conference Google’s Internet at Liberty Conference
If you were to Google “Internet”, “freedom”, “security”, “privacy”,”blog” and pull together the people and organizations that make up the top hits of the search, you would have the Internet at Liberty Conference, hosted by Google on September 20-22 in Budapest. A venerablewho’s whoof people involved in the worldwide discussion surrounding Internet freedom, this conference was an amazing opportunity to catch up with some of my favorite people who are fighting for the rights of humanity online, to hear updates from the internet governance forum that occurred the week before, and for strategizing new and innovative projects. Read more…
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Democratic Design Thinking Democratic Design Thinking
Participation, collaboration, and engagement are words that come to mind when empowering communities with digital tools. These same words also belong to the methodology of design thinking. Design thinking is a process used to create innovative solutions from complex problems. Read more…
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Censoring Liberty in Thailand Censoring Liberty in Thailand
**Thai journalist and anti-censorship activist is detained & released on bail 12 hours later ** Read more…
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Commitment to Clinton Global & A Visitor from Haiti Commitment to Clinton Global & A Visitor from Haiti
It’s an exciting week for Digital Democracy. One of our key Haitian partners is in New York, and we’re attending two conferences. Mark is in Budapest attending Google’s Internet at Liberty 2010 conference. I’m in NY, representing Digital Democracy at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting. Read more…
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Haiti: A Unique Voice from the Frontline Haiti: A Unique Voice from the Frontline
This week we welcome to New York one of our key Haitian partners, Eramithe Delva, a courageous advocate and founder of Kofaviv, one of the leading Haitian grassroots women’s networks. Eramithe traveled from Haiti yesterday for the first time to speak at a full day program today on Haitian Women and Girls co-sponsored by the Women Donors Network and the United Nations Foundation. During the next two weeks Eramithe is schedule to speak to a number of groups and organizations, offering her unique perspective on the plight of women in post-disaster Haiti . For more information and her full schedule please view the full press release below. Read more…
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Media and Technology in Armenia Media and Technology in Armenia
In 2003, I went to Armenia and started working with youth on “blogging” before the term blogging was actually in the lexicon. Back then, access to computers was hard to come by and the internet was crawling along. I was working with a documentary film company, Bars Media, and found that young people were not involved in the political life of the country. Along with some local friends and Dutch friends, we founded Bem, a youth action center focused on teaching art and technology for civic engagement. Since then, the country has gone through many changes. Read more…
