Digital Democracy

Empowering Civic Engagement with Digital Technologies

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...
Streaming the World Cup in a Thai Refugee Camp

From late April through the end of July, I was working and living in Western Thailand. This work enabled me to visit Mae La refugee camp quite often, during which I was able to take advantage of the time to pay several visits to the Leadership and Management Training Center (LMTC), a school inside Mae...
DdTv Ep 13 – Life After the Earthquake: The Situation for Haitian Women

On this episode of DdTv Emily Jacobi and Abby Goldberg travel to Port-Au-Prince, where they are invited to meet with organizations working on creating a mechanism to streamline methods of protection, documentation and service provisions for women around gender-based violence. While there, Emily and...
Direct Diplomacy with Haiti

This past Wednesday, Digital Democracy attempted an experiment in direct diplomacy. We brought together 75 people at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) for “In their own hands: Live video exchange with Haitian women 6 months after the earthquake.” We were joined at ITP via skype...