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Digital Drinks - a great success! Digital Drinks - a great success!
Thanks to all the folks in New York who attended our event,Digital Drinks_, last night. The Sunburnt Cow provided the perfect atmosphere, allowing for great interactions and conversations. Most importantly we met our goal for the night: To get out the vote for our Handheld Human Rights project. We appreciate everyone taking the time to cast their ballots! Read more…
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Innovation from New York to Amsterdam Innovation from New York to Amsterdam
This year marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s journey across the Atlantic, and in celebration the Dutch government is sponsoring a series of events and programs called NY400, reflecting on four centuries of Dutch-American relations. Read more…
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Vote for us in the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge Vote for us in the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge
Voting just began for UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge. There’s an impressive gallery of projects and we are excited to have our proposal for Handheld Human Rights among them. Read more…
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UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge
We have been working on Handheld Human Rights, a mobile component of the Virtual Community Center. We just entered it in UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge being presented by Netsquared. Read more…
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Drupalcon DC 2009 Drupalcon DC 2009
Last week Mark traveled to Washington DC to attend Drupalcon, an unconference_for Drupal users and developers. Read more…
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Chin National Day Celebration Chin National Day Celebration
What do wrestling, traditional dances, fashion shows and spicy noodle soup have in common? All were vital components of a Chin National Day celebration in Indianapolis, Indiana this weekend. Read more…
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Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamp Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamp
This past Saturday, Mark and I attended the Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamp in New York City hosted by MobileActive.org at Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts Program. A barcamp, also known as anunconference_, follows a more informal model from standard conferences: it’s designed to promote conversation and collaboration that may otherwise occur among small groups during free time at more traditional conferences. Read more…
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Digital Democracy Presents at Digital Democracy Digital Democracy Presents at Digital Democracy
Mark and Emily spent this week in Boston where they met with several people at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media. In addition, they were the guest lecturers at Digital Democracy, an undergraduate course taught by Patrick Meier at Tufts University. Before the class, the students were encouraged to post responses to assigned readings (including our own Overcoming Obstacles, Creating Opportunities, and Year of the Rats, as well as Drowningby George Packer) on the class’s blog. The class combined lecture and discussion, and during the second half, the student’s were asked to tweet* their responses to problems and questions that arose as the class progressed. The discussion centered on technology and effective communication in and around Burma, as well as possible barriers to this communication. Read more…
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Web4Dev Conference, New York City Web4Dev Conference, New York City
This week, D2’s Co-Directors Mark and Emily are attending the Fifth Annual United Nations’ Web4Dev Conference, hosted by UNICEF. Web4Dev has re-united them with many of the other participants they met while presenting at the MobileActive 08 Conference in Johannesburg back in October including InSTEDD and Ushahidi. Thursday explored many themes including monitoring and evaluation, which included a presentation by InSTEDD’s Robert Kirkpatrick exploring their projects which include, GeoChat, Mesh4X, and a new project, Evolve. Read more…
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Our Month of Proposals Our Month of Proposals
This past week completed a long month of proposal-writing for us. When we’re writing, it’s hard not to get wrapped up in a single proposal, or the smaller themes that run throughout each one. After we’ve completed one, we like to get an overview of our work, to see what is and isn’t being emphasized as we describe our organization and the more specific details of our various projects. By looking at the bigger picture, we can see the changing themes in our writing, and what could be altered or kept the same when we tackle our next one. To do this, we create word clouds from our proposals. The cloud is created from the most frequently used words in the document. In addition, the words within the cloud vary in size depending on frequency of usage. The most interesting comparison can often be looking at word clouds from several different proposals side by side. See below for a few examples of word clouds created from 2 of our most recent proposals. Read more…