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Project Einstein started as photo training with a group of youth in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, so named by one of the participants because “Einstein was a refugee but could still do great things.” We’ve since expanded the project, working with youth in Pretoria, South Africa, a Burmese refugee camp in Thailand, and the [...]

Mark and Emily travel to Mae La refugee camp in Northern Thailand to launch our digital penpal program Project Einstein with Burmese youth. Students from the Leadership Management Training College, never having held a camera before, are taught the fundamentals of digital photography, including composition and editing, and choose themes from their lives to document [...]

Digital Democracy is delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the Clowes Fund of Indianapolis, Indiana. The grant will support the launch of Project Einstein Indianapolis, a digital penpal program that teaches 21st century skills while facilitating cross-cultural dialogue. Project Einstein will connect young Burmese refugees and their classmates in Indianapolis [...]

In October 2008, Mark and Emily did a digital storytelling photography project with youth living in shelters in Pretoria, South Africa. During the course of the five-day training the 13 young people learned how to use digital cameras and flip video, and how to critique and edit their own photos. They traveled throughout the city, [...]

In the wake of yesterday evening’s devastating, 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, we join the many other groups expressing concern for the people of Haiti. While communication with the island remains limited, colleagues around the world are working hard to use technology to support the efforts on the ground. Check out: – Ushahidi’s deployment, currently being [...]

The year is certainly off to an exciting start. Digital Democracy is putting together our annual report for 2009 and pushing out new projects for 2010. We’re excited to announce Project Einstein: Haiti Dd is partners with a research team  from The Fletcher School at Tufts University supported by the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises [...]

Over the next few days Mark and Emily will be in Western Thailand working in a refugee camp to launch our program Project Einstein with a partner school. They’ll be teaching digital photography skills to a group of 17 students so that the students can participate in Project Einstein, our digital pen pal program connecting [...]

This month, Digital Democracy is traveling to Southeast Asia to launch our programming in Thailand: Handheld Human Rights and Project Einstein. Both Handheld Human Rights and Project Einstein empower Burmese community groups and refugees and connect them with the international community. Project Einstein, our digital pen pal program, was born from a photo training we [...]

Project Einstein, Digital Democracy’s project which centers around photography service learning projects in youth communities, was first completed in Bangladesh, where we were able to work with Rohingya refugee children from Burma who are living in camps along the Bangladesh-Burma border. This project was supported by a Providence-based organization called What Kids Can Do (WKCD). [...]