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News and Notes Roundup - August 17, 2015

By Nathaniel Kim | Aug 17, 2015

Happy Monday, folks, and welcome back to the News and Notes Roundup! We have some exciting updates from around NDI and around the world!

#YouthParty

This past Wednesday, August 12, was…

Breaking News: NDItech.org Redesign Leaked!

By Nathaniel Kim | Aug 14, 2015

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Ongoing: We are receiving reports that a radical faction of graphic designers and engineers are planning a sweeping relaunch of NDItech’s website in response to longstanding calls for an updated platform. Incoming reports state…

From Strategy to Tactics - Assessment and Planning Trips

By Chris Doten | Aug 11, 2015

Writing this while sleepless on a plane back from Kampala, Uganda where I was working with NDI's field office and the civic organization group, the Citizen's Election Observers Network (CEON). This was an assessment and planning trip, so I…

Contact Management in the Congo

By Christine Schoellhorn | Aug 06, 2015

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Last month, NDI trained political parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on the use of CiviParty, NDI’s contact management DemTool, which is based on the open source…

News and Notes Roundup - July 27, 2015

By Nathaniel Kim | Jul 29, 2015

Happy Monday and welcome back to the last roundup of July! First up, be sure to check out this month’s DemTools Newsletter to learn how our suite of tools are supporting…

DemTools Newsletter - July 2015

By | Jul 22, 2015

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The vision behind DemTools is to build the capacity of groups to organize more effectively, reach target audiences, and more easily gather and analyze data with simple-to-use web applications. Since launching the toolkit in August 2014, that…

Building a Library from Space

By Christine Schoellhorn | Jul 16, 2015

At NDI, we believe that free access to information is a human right. The Internet has dramatically enhanced our ability to exercise this right, but unfortunately most…

Hello, World!

By Nathaniel Kim | Jul 09, 2015

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Hello World, my name is Nathaniel Kim! I’m an incoming graduate student at Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service program and a new project assistant here at NDItech.

For the past few years, I’ve been studying Arabic…

We're Hiring - Intern Needed!

By Chris Doten | Jun 08, 2015

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If you are a regular reader of this blog you have a pretty good idea of the wide range of technologies and techniques we get to play with supporting NDI's partner organizations abroad in 60-some countries. It's our job to improve solid democracy…

Strengthening Political Participation and Constituent Relations in Colombia

By | Jun 01, 2015

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Ciudadanía y Congresistas Platform

Since 2000, NDI has worked with a broad range of political parties in Colombia to develop effective communication strategies that leverage new technologies to improve congressional-constituent relations. The recent launch of the…