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Strengthening Forest Governance with Technology Strengthening Forest Governance with Technology
Digital Democracy is teaming up with Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency to support Indigenous peoples’ organizations in the Peruvian Amazon to monitor and document rights violations and illegal logging. Read more…
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Join Dd’s Mesh Network Join Dd’s Mesh Network
We’re launching the Mesh Network, which is our community of allies and supporters who help make our work possible, and who we believe will help ensure our work, projects and area of focus are robust and effective for many years to come. Read more…
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We Built A Drone We Built A Drone
Can drones be a tool for positive change in the hands of indigenous communities? Can communities use them to create maps and monitor illegal logging and deforestation? To answer these questions I travelled to Guyana in October and together with the local Wapichana monitoring team we built a drone and made a map. Watch the video to find out how we did. Read more…
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Help us Hack the Rainforest Help us Hack the Rainforest
Calling all technologists, mobile app developers and passionate civic-hackers: Digital Democracy is partnering with Seamless Planet to offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to the Peruvian Rainforest and collaborate with local indigenous leaders to design and build a mobile data collection app to empower their work to defend their territory. Read more…
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Using maps to tell the story of ClearWater’s work in Ecuador Using maps to tell the story of ClearWater’s work in Ecuador
The Dd team is excited to announce the launch of a site we've been working on for months: An interactive map-based platform that tells the inspiring story of the ClearWater Project, an indigenous-led effort in Ecuador's northern Amazon. Read more…
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Return to Chiapas Return to Chiapas
This month, Dd is returning to Chiapas, Mexico to continue an initiative we began in 2012 called Equal Footing. Working with Mayan villages in the Lacondon Jungle, we are supporting their efforts to communicate with the Mexican authorities who have threatened them with eviction from the rainforest where they live. Read more…
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Help the Achuar people defend their rainforest home Help the Achuar people defend their rainforest home
In remote Amazon headwaters in Peru and Ecuador, the Achuar people have lived for generations in tropical rainforest of astounding natural beauty and biodiversity. For the Achuar, the rainforest provides them with water, food, medicine, stories, their identity, and their future. Read more…
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2013: Year-End Review 2013: Year-End Review
As the year comes to a close, the Digital Democracy team feels great joy for all we’ve accomplished in the past 12 months. As you reflect on your own year and look forward to the next, we wanted to share some of our favorite moments & memories from 2013. Read more…
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Update on Remote Access Update on Remote Access
What would you do if a multi-national company was polluting your waters? If the rivers you depended on were degraded by oil spills, the water unsafe to drink or fish from? Would you petition the government to step in and force the company to clean it up? What if, for years, the government didn’t listen and turned a blind eye? Read more…
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Participatory Mapping for Indigenous Rights Participatory Mapping for Indigenous Rights
In August I was priviledged to be invited to the global indigenous mapping conference in Samosir, North Sumatra represent Digital Democracy. Indigenous peoples from around the world spoke passionately about their struggle to defend their ancestral lands from ever encroaching deforestation, contamination and colonization, and the importance of mapping and digital tools for supporting that struggle. Read more…