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Silicon Valley Meets Net Freedom

By | Oct 28, 2011

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The Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference in San Francisco this week sought to connect tech companies that build tools and services that are used in challenging political environments with the activists…

High Stakes Testing

By Chris Doten | Oct 28, 2011

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Another story from our efforts around the Zambia election.

We brought through a group of University of Zambia students together to select our team of data clerks for the…

Governments Should “Like” Social Media - But Stay Safe

By Cynthia Medina | Oct 25, 2011

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Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee published a report [PDF] on Latin American governments and their need to embrace social media and technology. As a avid… Read More

Do Know Harm

By Chris Doten | Oct 21, 2011

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The NDItech team recently wrapped up a meeting of private sector security professionals advising on some of our work in difficult countries. It was a fascinating experience; while our team has got a pretty good grasp of the fundamentals, these…

Upgrading the Airwaves

By Anna Shaw | Oct 19, 2011

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Radio often seems like a lost art. Enthusiasm for mobile technologies and online resources overshadows more traditional, low-tech broadcasting methods. But by no means has radio been left behind. Community radio stations around the world are using… Read More

Filtering at the Legal Layer

By Lindsay Beck | Oct 19, 2011

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Restriction of open dialogue can take a variety of forms. Systematic and pervasive technical means to block keywords, denial-of-service attacks against websites, and overcrowding discussion platforms in order to drown out dissenting points-of-view… Read More

Failing Successfully

By Katherine Peters | Oct 17, 2011

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After several busy travel weeks, the… Read More

140-Character Election Monitoring

By NDI Tech | Oct 14, 2011

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Here are a few thoughts from our friends on the NDI Elections Team about the utility of Twitter in election monitoring efforts across the globe. Twitter is a powerful and multidimensional tool.… Read More

Social Media for Collective Action

By Cynthia Medina | Oct 07, 2011

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Climbing aboard the social media train ... I’ve been thinking about the special role of social media and collective action under authoritarian regimes since I caught a…

Power to the People

By Anna Shaw | Oct 06, 2011

Twenty-Eleven has been a year of social media. From the Arab Spring to the London Riots and now even the…