Digital Democracy

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. Live With Design, a group of designers, design thinkers, social entrepreneurs gathered at a MeetUp [...]

Thai journalist and anti-censorship activist is detained & released on bail 12 hours later (updated at 5:30pm EDT following Jiew’s release from Thai authorities) September 24, 2010: New York, NY —Chiranuch Premchaiporn, known as Jiew — an advocate, founder and manager of a leading independent news website in Thailand — was detained today in the [...]

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. CGI is built around commitments – every single [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]