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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
On this episode of DdTv Emily Jacobi and Abby Goldberg travel to Port-Au-Prince, where they are invited to meet with organizations working on creating a mechanism to streamline methods of protection, documentation and service provisions for women around gender-based violence. While there, Emily and Abby meet with local women leaders and conduct a photography training [...]
I’m in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for the next week to follow-up on the great trip Abby Goldberg and I took this spring. I began my trip distributing cameras for the Life In A Day project – the first user-generated feature film. I’ve also been distributing photos from our workshop in April and I ferried some films [...]
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