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Designers wanted: What does Digital Democracy look like? Designers wanted: What does Digital Democracy look like?
D2 is holding a 5 Day Design Sprint to come up with a new logo for our organization - and we’re asking for your designs and ideas! D2 needs a logo that expresses our mission to empower civic engagement through digital technologies. So we’re asking you to put your digital skills to use. Read more…
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A Human Rights Victory in Berkeley! A Human Rights Victory in Berkeley!
We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 5 our project Handheld Human Rights was awarded the third place prize at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center conference: The Soul of the New Machine. Read more…
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A Great Night for Burma and Subversive Tech A Great Night for Burma and Subversive Tech
On Monday, April 27th D2 co-hosted a packed event with Not an Alternative and Eyebeam at their Change You Want to See gallery in Brooklyn as part of their project Upgrade!, a monthly series focusing on open-source activism and art. We had a fantastic turnout and met a lot of great people. Read more…
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Using tech to help citizens monitor the Indian Elections Using tech to help citizens monitor the Indian Elections
India is the world’s biggest democracy. There are roughly 700 million people eligible to vote in the current parliamentary elections. The votes of these 700 million people are being contested by 6,719 candidates vying for 543 representative seats. Monitoring this massive democratic undertaking are various regional, national and international bodies keeping a watch on irregularities and violations of the electoral code. There is now an exciting new addition to this array of watchdogs: Vote Report India. Read more…
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Subversive Tech & Burma’s Struggle for Democracy Live Streaming Subversive Tech & Burma’s Struggle for Democracy Live Streaming
Tune in at 7:30 PM EST by following our liveblogging on Twitter, seeing our presentation - and/or to watch the streaming live. Read more…
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Subversive Tech & Burma’s Struggle for Democracy Subversive Tech & Burma’s Struggle for Democracy
On Monday, April 27th at 7:30 D2 is hosting an event here in New York on the use of digital technology in the Burmese pro-democracy movement: “Subversive Tech and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy”. Read more…
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D2 is in the final round of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge D2 is in the final round of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge
Many thanks to everyone who voted for us last week in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. Your votes got our project Handheld Human Rights into the second round of the challenge and have won us a spot in the N2Y4 Conference in San Jose, CA from May 26-27. We couldn’t have done it without your support and input! Read more…
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Cast your vote for Handheld Human Rights … again! Cast your vote for Handheld Human Rights … again!
Last week your votes helped our project Handheld Human Rights (HHR) reach the final round of the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. (Read more in our previous blog post.) Read more…
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Is a closed society a bad society? Is a closed society a bad society?
A good friend of D2’s recently came to us with a question. He was stopped by the phrase “closed societies” which we use to describe some of the places where we work and have done research. We are posting both the question and answer below as a way of sharing this dialogue. Q. How do you guys define a country as “bad” (which is how I read the term “closed”) where you are going to support “dissidents” or refugees? For me, talking about Burma and Zimbabwe as being somehow morally equivalent governments or societies is problematic.How do you guys decide who is bad and who is good? There are obvious political decisions one must make in these things and I don’t think one can hide behind a notion of universal human rights to avoid them. An excellent question and an important one for us to answer. Read more…
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D2 is a finalist in the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge D2 is a finalist in the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge
Thank you to everyone who voted for the best projects in the NetSquared/UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge last week. NetSquared just announced the top 10 finalists - including our project, Handheld Human Rights. We couldn’t have made it this far without your support, votes and comments. Read more…