Digital Democracy

India is the world’s biggest democracy. There are roughly 700 million people eligible to vote in the current parliamentary elections. The votes of these 700 million people are being contested by 6,719 candidates vying for 543 representative seats. Monitoring this massive democratic undertaking are various regional, national and international bodies keeping a watch on irregularities [...]

Tune in at 7:30 PM EST by following our liveblogging on Twitter, seeing our presentation -  and/or to watch the streaming live.

On Monday, April 27th at 7:30 D2 is hosting an event here in New York on the use of digital technology in the Burmese pro-democracy movement: “Subversive Tech and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy“.
The evening’s program will include:
- A presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma’s borders.
- Footage from the [...]

Many thanks to everyone who voted for us last week in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. Your votes got our project Handheld Human Rights into the second round of the challenge and have won us a spot in the N2Y4 Conference in San Jose, CA from May 26-27. We couldn’t have done it without your support [...]

Last week your votes helped our project Handheld Human Rights (HHR) reach the final round of the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. (Read more in our previous blog post.)
This week we’ve entered Handheld Human Rights in another NetSquared challenge. This time it’s the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge which also seeks projects that leverage mobile [...]

A good friend of D2’s recently came to us with a question. He was stopped by the phrase “closed societies” which we use to describe some of the places where we work and have done research. We are posting both the question and answer below as a way of sharing this dialogue.
Q. How do you [...]