Digital Democracy

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 [...]

Ever since Digital Democracy began working with Burmese populations we have believed that it is essential to have a completely comprehensive understanding of the country and the challenges it faces. This means going beyond the well-understood populations living on the border with Thailand to understand conditions on the ground inside Burma and along all of [...]

Recently Gabe represented Digital Democracy at the Tides Momentum Conference in San Francisco, a convergence of leaders, philanthropists and activists working on a wide range of progressive social issues. It was an opportunity to get together with other dedicated, hard-working folks to discuss problems, share stories and brainstorm solutions to some of the most pressing [...]

Our community of supporters has always been one of Digital Democracy’s greatest assets. From our fundraising campaign last Winter to our NetSquared campaigns this Spring, our supporters have always been there to lift us and up and help us move forward. And today we are reaching out to you again. We have entered Project Einstein [...]

In April we collaborated with Not An Alternative and Eyebeam to host an event for their Upgrade! series highlighting the role that technology plays in the Burmese democracy movement. Hosted at the Change You Want To See gallery space, the event was live-streamed, and the video has just gone up. We are pleased to share [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. – [...]

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 [...]