DemTech: Our Blog

Moments of Opportunity: 2008 Zimbabwe Elections

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A good example of combining good use of technology with well-organized political activity by strong organizations to increase political space in an authoritarian or closed society was Zimbabwe’s 2008…

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Democratic Development? There's an App for That.

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Innovative ideas coming out of the State Department these days.

The Apps4Africa contest is designed to encourage and support African mobile…

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Opening Afghanistan's Elections

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Afghan Election Data, including map

In the run-up to this weekend's parliamentary (Wolesi Jirga or WJ) vote in Afghanistan, NDI has just launched our latest election data site -

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Job Post: We're Recruiting a Drupal Developer

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We're looking for a Drupal developer to join our team here in Washington, DC.

The job would require you to build and manage NDI's public websites (including this blog!) as well as new tools for our international development projects. We…

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Field Trip

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I'm currently in Erbil, Iraq in the Kurdistan region, doing an assessment of an upcoming project with the Iraqi Parliament.

It's hot.

The NDItech team travels a good deal for this kind…

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Security Blanket Statements

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People sometimes come to ICT to ask “How can I make my computer and network secure?”

To which I will respond: “Well, what do you mean by secure?”

This makes me very popular.

The first problem is that there is no big red on/off…

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High-Tech Doesn’t Equal Democracy

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One of the challenges of technology related development assistance is always employing solutions that are appropriate for the environment into which they are being introduced.  In democracy assistance we're often faced with a similiar…

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What Does Radio Sound Like in Sudan?

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What does radio sound like in Sudan? A cacophony, in the best possible way. The many competing stations on the Juba FM dial are a sort of cacophony of democracy, where everyone has a voice and an opinion and wants to share it with the world.

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Kenyan Citizens Monitor with Mobile aka “A4B2G1H1”*

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Detailed information about Election Day can be collected from thousands of observers in many ways given the need for accuracy, speed, minimized costs, and taking into account the particular communications infrastructure and organizational…

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Moments of Opportunity: Tech in Closed Societies

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In recent years, partly in response to the US State Department’s focus on internet freedom, we have seen increased interest in applying technology to closed societies to create more political space and…

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