Digital Democracy

We are excited to have both our co-founders on stage in Austin this week, participating in Tech4Good panels at SXSWi. If you’ll be at SXSWi, please come by and join the conversation. Tuesday, March 13, at 3:30 in the AT&T conference center, come hear Emily Jacobi on the “Women Drive Change: Tech in the Global South” panel (#femtech [...]

Happy International Women’s Day! To mark the 101st celebration of International Women’s Day, we at Digital Democracy want to take a moment to reflect on our work to empower women and girls,  and celebrate their remarkable vision, courage, achievements and inspiration around the globe. Two years ago, Dd launched programming focused on Women and gender [...]

This article was written by Emily Jacobi and first appeared in the Huffington Post on 2/23/12. Read it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-jacobi/burma-myanmar-technology_b_1291110.html Once again, a global record was shattered in Myanmar/Burma. This time, the record wasn’t for the largest number of child soldiers (designated by Human Rights Watch in 2002), the world’s longest-running civil conflict, or the jailing of [...]

The concept of “small-d democracy” is at the foundation of our work at Digital Democracy. Fast Company’s March 2012 issue features Dd in solidarity with other innovators who have helped elevate, amplify and fortify the Occupy Movement. This fall, Dd challenged the claim that “the Occupy Movement doesn’t know what it wants” by building a polling [...]

At crossroads in my life, I bike across countries. Nine years ago, I biked across the United States. Today, I find myself at another transition: I am moving on from my role as President of Digital Democracy. In honor of that change, I’ll be crossing the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. [...]

Thanks to all our friends, partners, advisors & supporters who joined us last Thursday for Digital Democracy’s 3rd Birthday Party. We are so grateful we were able to celebrate with all of you. Photos from the event are up on our Flickr … check out the excellent images by Jon Reznick, as well as the [...]

Digital Democracy is turning 3 this month! Come celebrate with us on 11/17 at the RH Gallery in TriBeCa, New York City. Bring your phone, try out new tools & learn more about how Dd is empowering marginalized communities to leverage technology to fight for their human rights. Get your tickets now! Early bird tickets [...]

What is an open-source protest (or in Egyptian nomenclature, a wiki-revolution)? Can technology tools be used to develop new methods of distributed grassroots decision-making? It’s clear that the Occupy movement is about something much bigger and greater than one person or group … how can the large numbers of people who identify with the movement [...]

2 years, 21 countries, some revolutions and a lot of new friends – Digital Democracy is proud to launch our first annual report. The online version and PDF below are interactive, so feel free to click on links and pictures to hear to stories and read more about our projects. Digital Democracy 2009-2010 Annual Report// [...]

What is the current discussion around how technology is being used for supporting people advocating for democracy around the world? Please vote for the panels we and are friends are trying to host at the upcoming South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. SXSW is shaping up to be a pretty exciting festival this year. [...]