On Saturday, March 12th, technologists, humanitarians, and community organizers gathered at the second ever #BarCampHaiti, convened in Port Au Prince. For those not familiar with “BarCamps,” they are a conference style long popular among technologists – and increasingly other communities – with an agenda partially determined at the event itself based on the skills of [...]
Still reeling from the earthquake nine months ago and with elections later this month, what do Haitians living in the camps think about voting and the opportunities for changing their country? Last week, Dd’s Emily Jacobi, Emilie Reiser, and I traveled there to find out.
This past Wednesday, Digital Democracy attempted an experiment in direct diplomacy. We brought together 75 people at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) for “In their own hands: Live video exchange with Haitian women 6 months after the earthquake.” We were joined at ITP via skype by my project partner, DigiDem Co-Director, Emily Jacobi, our translator [...]
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