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Partner Spotlight: International Indigenous Peoples Day Partner Spotlight: International Indigenous Peoples Day
Today, August 9, is International Indigenous Peoples Day. To celebrate, we’ll be sharing a series of posts in the next few weeks introducing you to some of the people whom we are proud to count amongst our friends and colleagues. Read more…
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Meet the team Meet the team
Later this year, Digital Democracy will be celebrating our ten year anniversary. Over the last decade, the organization has evolved in scope and impact. A huge factor in this evolution is the growing team of passionate and brilliant people who have made Dd what it is today. Meet the team. Read more…
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“Our land is not for sale”: Waorani Resistance in Ecuador “Our land is not for sale”: Waorani Resistance in Ecuador
Today the Waorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, one of Digital Democracy's close partners, are launching a campaign against new oil blocks that overlap their territory. Read their story; explore their territory through an interactive map; listen to their words and support their vision. Read more…
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Announcing a Major Investment from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Announcing a Major Investment from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Today is World GIS Day, a celebration of how GIS technology is applied. We’re thrilled to celebrate this day with the public launch of our offline mapping tool Mapeo, thanks to a grant of $525,000 from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Read more…
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Guyana: Wapichan villages publish monitoring data showing widespread illegal mining Guyana: Wapichan villages publish monitoring data showing widespread illegal mining
Digital Democracy’s partners in Guyana, the Wapichan of the South Rupinuni, have published the results of their ongoing territorial monitoring, which show widespread evidence of illegal gold mining and poaching, amongst other illegal activities. Read more…
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Mapping Waorani Territory: Update from the Ecuadorian Amazon Mapping Waorani Territory: Update from the Ecuadorian Amazon
Last month our newest team member, Aliya Ryan, joined the Waorani territory mapping team in the Ecuadorian Amazon to present printed territory maps to the Waorani villages of Nemopare and Kiwaro. Read more…
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Digital Democracy and Coalition Partners Receive Funding to Halt Amazon Deforestation Digital Democracy and Coalition Partners Receive Funding to Halt Amazon Deforestation
Digital Democracy, in partnership with a coalition of international partners led by Hivos, Greenpeace and indigenous organizations, is launching a new program aimed at addressing deforestation. The program, All Eyes on the Amazon, has been made possible thanks to a 14.8 million euro contribution from the Dutch National Postcode Lottery’s Dream Fund Read more…
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Reflecting on 8 Years of Digital Democracy Reflecting on 8 Years of Digital Democracy
This month marks the eight year anniversary of Digital Democracy. When we started in 2008, we had a vision — that new technology tools could be used to serve grassroots movements in innovative ways — and we felt urgently compelled to respond to requests for capacity building and support from the grassroots activists we were working with in Southeast Asia. Read more…
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Technology Preview: Participatory mapping in the Amazon with Mapeo Technology Preview: Participatory mapping in the Amazon with Mapeo
Mapeo is an easy-to-use offline mapping app built for our work with indigenous communities in the Amazon and around the world, who asked us for an easier way to create and edit their own maps. Read more…
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OpenStreetMap Without Servers [Part 1] OpenStreetMap Without Servers [Part 1]
We’ve built mapping tools based on OpenStreetMap that work offline and without any server, which indigenous communities in the Amazon are using to create territory maps to defend their ancestral rainforest home from oil drilling, mining and logging. Read more…