Digital Democracy

It came as a total surprise, but along with 4 other unsuspecting projects, we won a special $5000 FACT Social Justice Award on Wednesday at the awesome Netsquared Conference.

About FACT: “The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) is committed to addressing the fundamental inequalities and injustices in our society by helping develop and sustain networks of [...]

Mark just asked folks at NetSquared to vote for our project. Here’s why you should vote for us.
“Handheld Human Rights – We’re a secure hub for groups around Burma’s borders documenting human rights abuses.  We will provide an Emergency Community Response – a community 911 where 911 doesn’t exist.
Here’s 4 reasons to vote for [...]

Howdy dear readers and mobile advocacy for human rights fans. The D2 Team is currently at the NetSquared conference working, jamming and spreading the word about our cool project, Handheld Human Rights.
We’re of course having a lot of fun, meeting cool people, tweeting about what we do and would love to meet you.  So…come on [...]

I have a post on my personal blog about how Handheld Human Rights and Handheld Health can benefit from non-mobile technologies:
 
A digital pen that is inconspicuous, durable and reliable. It records what it writes into its internal memory, creating PDFs from each written page of text from the special pixelated paper…
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D2’s co-founders Mark and Emily are representing Handheld Human Rights at N2Y4, NetSquared’s annual conference. It’s thrilling to be at a conference focused on supporting projects on the ground.
This past weekend, D2 spent time with exiled monk leaders of Burma’s September 2007 Saffron Revolution. U Pyinya Zawta, U Gawsita and U Agga were all involved [...]

In Burma/Myanmar, decades of military misrule have left the public health system in shambles. In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked Myanmar’s health system the second worst in the world, superior only to war-torn Sierra Leone.
The numbers are an indictment. Even before Cyclone Nargis displaced residents a year ago, hundreds of thousands of Burmese were [...]

D2 is holding a 5 Day Design Sprint to come up with a new logo for our organization – and we’re asking for your designs and ideas! D2 needs a logo that expresses our mission to empower civic engagement through digital technologies. So we’re asking you to put your digital skills to use.
Think you’re up [...]

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 5 our project Handheld Human Rights was awarded the third place prize at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center conference: The Soul of the New Machine.
We are honored to be chosen by the Human Rights Center’s panel of judges especially when they had such a strong [...]

On Monday, April 27th D2 co-hosted a packed event with Not an Alternative and Eyebeam at their Change You Want to See gallery in Brooklyn as part of their project Upgrade!, a monthly series focusing on open-source activism and art. We had a fantastic turnout and met a lot of great people.
Mark started things off [...]