Digital Democracy

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 [...]

Its an honor to be invited to speak at the White House . Its especially exciting to see an administration that understands the power of youth and works to pull in our voices. The White House was pulling together 20 “awesome” youth leaders to discuss the future of international foreign aid. The conversation was between [...]

How can designers, hackers and business work with government to make it more innovative? To put their mouth where our money is? We’re co-sponsoring OpenGov Camp NYC, an unconference to bring together the brightest minds to tackle the issues that we citizens face in our day to day lives. We love unconferences. What better way [...]

It’s getting warmer in NYC and the office is bustling with activity. We’re happy to have brought on a hacker to help us with our technical projects, as well as two Spring interns. We’re having exciting times here at Digital Democracy. Let us know if there’s anyone that you know who can help us make [...]

In 2008, we formed Digital Democracy based on a simple but powerful idea: Technology should be used to empower even the most marginalized groups to engage in democratic action, whether locally, on a national or international scale. The idea for Digital Democracy was inspired by the courage of Burmese monks, human rights workers and advocates [...]

Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, and Digital Democracy was celebrating from Port-au-Prince, where our Haiti Program Manager Emilie Reiser joined one of our local partners, KOFAVIV, for a day-long celebration. The situation for women in Haiti remains challenging, particularly in the displaced person camps where attacks of rape and sexual violence [...]

In September Digital Democracy made a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to use technology to empower women and girls fighting gender-based violence in Haiti. This is part of our larger commitment to engage with our local partners using technology to solve urgent problems in their communities. This year our dedicated team harnessed digital maps, mobile phones, [...]