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 are $10 and available until Sunday, November 6. Full price tickets online (and at the door) will be $15.

See you there to enjoy….

• DJ iBeat spinning for your dancing & listening pleasure
• Bulldog Gin & Brooklyn Brewery for the open bar
• Elizabeth Hodes Custom Cakes & Sugar Art for our custom-designed cake
• Lucy’s Whey for CHEESE

There will be fun to go around…

& you can WIN. Enter our raffle for a chance to take home a brand new Google Chromebook…

...thanks to Google's New York City office of Community Affairs

Play telephone, spread the word, and if you bring 10 friends you get a free raffle ticket. Questions? Email Biz at biz [at] digital-democracy [dot] org.

Thank you to everyone who’s donations will make this a special night! And feel free to check out these photos from our 1st Anniversary at OpenPlans and 2nd Anniversary at New Work City.

There will be stickers, games, music and free drinks until 9 (discounted bar afterward), so get #stuckonDd, and show your support. All proceeds go towards Digital Democracy and our work empowering at-risk communities with innovative technologies.

BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY: http://digidemparty.eventbrite.com/

If you can’t join us for the festivities and all the surprises the party promises, we truly appreciate your supportive donations.

We hope to see you there!



Our partners — including refugee communities, government officials in Iraq, women living in tents in Haiti, middle school students in Indiana, Burma, and Kazakhstan—inspire us. We see the change in how they perceive their potential after trainings and while using new tech. We believe in the positive change they embody and the possibilities for people, democracy, technology, and freedom.

That’s why we started #stuckonDd, a campaign that brings all of our partners and supporters around the world together and show your support to the world. Where does your Dd sticker live? On your computer, phone, bike, bed, or …? Show us!

Don’t have a sticker? It’s as easy as a $10 donation that goes straight to the heart of the matter: supporting Dd at our core. We are volunteers. We are operating with small strategic grants. We are bootstrapping and getting our space generously donated. We need your help to take Dd and all it can be into our third year.

Please donate now, get a sticker, share with the community, and TWEET IT UP. We can’t wait to see where you’re #stuckonDd.

Get creative…
And if you’re in New York, join us for some sticky fun at our 2nd Birthday Party on December 20 at New Work City!

In reflecting over the past year, we’ve compiled some of the numbers from outputs from our programs and partnerships. As you read about them below, will you consider making a birthday gift donation to Digital Democracy in honor of our 2nd anniversary? A donation of any amount, whether $20, $200 or $2,000 will go to support our core programming for our third year. Donations can be made through our fiscal sponsor, IMTD online or via Facebook Causes.

What have we been up to the past twelve months? Quite a lot.

Research, communications & information:

• Blog posts: 62
• Dd team member talks & presentations: 34
• Mainstream press about Dd: 16 articles/videos
• Digital Democracy TV (DdTv) episodes released: 6
• Country reports on ICT & civic participation published: 4

Check out these reports from Armenia, Burma/Myanmar, Haiti & Zimbabwe.

Work with local partners in the US & globally:

• Number of people trained by Dd Staff: 465
• Countries where we worked: 21
• Ushahidi deployment trainings: 8
• Tech & security workshops with local partners: 6
• Additional workshops on media & mapping: 4
• Project Einstein deployments: 4 countries
• Projects related to election monitoring: 3

This year our local partners have done incredible work from filing petitions to the UN, addressing hundred of cases of gender-based violence in Haiti, and reporting from inside Burma during recent elections. While much of this work is undercover or confidential, here are numbers from some of their public work:

• Photos taken by Project Einstein participants: 6,289.
• Incidents of human rights violations logged on Handheld Human Rights Burma: 661
• Blog posts by women in Haiti since 11/1/10: 15

Check out the blog Fanm Pale/Women Speak, Handheld Human Rights Burma & photos from Project Einstein Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya & Indianapolis.

Thank you again for all you have done to help make this possible. Between our anniversary & Thanksgiving, we know just how much we have to be thankful for.

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with Digital Democracy as we  turned one year old.

Digidem Party Flyer

Over 200 people came to eat, drink, and be merry at the Open Planning Project’s gorgeous penthouse & rooftop in Soho, NYC for a party highlighting young change-makers in NYC. Even more tuned in to watch LIVE as we streamed interviews with people, asking them how they are changing the world. Filmed on our new Nokia n97s, by interviewers Michael Morgenstern & Dan Latorre, you can check out 20+ short answers, or contribute your own below. Others still added to our Twitfall by tweeting in their own responses.

Presenting 1 year of work to an amazing crowd of supporters

Thank you to our sponsors: TOPP for the amazing space, Henry’s Restaurant, Sustainable Party, Medea Vodka, and Dr. Joel M. Spiro MD (and Park Ave Liquors), WOMWorld/Nokia. Thanks to media partners TBD and StartingBloc. Extra special thanks to photographer Annie Powers for the wonderful pictures , to Anthony Ina for the beautiful flyer design, and to DJ Blanche Dubois.

Remember: please drink & program responsibly.

Showing off the Twitfall & Mobiles for change