Digital Democracy

February 1-3, 2013 –  This weekend, Digital Democracy – along with partners KOFAVIV, ESIH & more – is hosting “From Local Solutions to National Systems,” a Hackathon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We’re thrilled to be convening a talented group of Haitian & international developers, designers and issue areas experts for the first Hackathon FOR Haiti to [...]

Digital Democracy is thrilled to announce we have been named as one of eight winners of  the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge on Mobiles. Support from Knight Foundation will enable us to launch Remote Access this spring, an initiative aimed at empowering remote and off-the-grid communities with a toolkit to [...]

Happy International Human Rights Day, everyone. This year, the focus of Human Rights Day — on Monday & beyond — is the rights of all people to make their voices heard, regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, geography or economic standing. In honor of that mission, we want to share with you a new report, #ICT4HR, [...]

Today we’re launching a campaign to share our partners’ stories, bring your voice into the conversation & work together to redefine possibility. Our partners tell us collaboration with Dd has made things possible that they once considered impossible.  Things like:  Hosting the largest Barcamp in the world in Burma/Myanmar. Building & running the 1st 24-hour hotline [...]

[This post is excerpted from a letter sent Friday, November 2, 2012 via the Dd Newsletter (Sign Up Here!) following the devastation of Hurricane Sandy & includes links below to articles by Emily published in the Huffington Post about our partners in Haiti.] Dear Friends, Over the past weeks, a powerful storm impacted Digital Democracy’s [...]

At Digital Democracy, we’re passionate about the opportunities new technologies create to disrupt how information is communicated & shared, especially across traditional divides – urban/rural, rich/poor, majority/minority, and many more. However these opportunities also come with new challenges & risks – when marginalized groups use new tools that amplify their voices, they can also encounter [...]

Off the coattails of our recent Board Retreat and Meeting in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, we want to take a moment to officially introduce the three members of the Digital Democracy (Dd) inaugural Board of Directors: Michael Gaouette (Chair), Janet Harris & Vince Warren. They have expertise in peace-keeping, international development and humanitarian work, human rights law, [...]

Rebecca Joy Norlander is a PhD candidate focused on the intersection of digital tools and social transformation. She first joined Dd as a volunteer in 2011 and is now one of our Strategic Advisors, helping us broaden our exposure to the many different ways digital tools are creating opportunities for empowerment and peace. Check our [...]

A team of Dd supporters will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in July… and to prepare they are raising funds and awareness about Dd. Digital Democracy is proud to shout out the team of mountaineers Dd supporters Dan Fredinburg, Sara Pelosi, Michele Battelli, Andrew Swerdlow, Sam Gilbert, Lindsey Smart and Megan Ezell, who have committed to fundraise [...]

Deep in the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas Mexico, indigenous groups are facing the fight of their lives. Caught between conservation policies and the slow pace of land reform, villagers are fighting to prevent forced evictions from the land where they have lived for generations. If evicted, they face urban slums, poverty, and the necessity of [...]