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Weekly Roundup 5/31/17
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This past week, NDI attended the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF). Nicknamed the “Davos for Human Rights”, it seeks to bring together high-profile activists…
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Bitcoin agreement reached at Consensus 2017 Conference
In this week’s news, a scaling agreement for Bitcoin was reached, with implications for both…
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CCMG data center for Zambia 2016 elections
As you know if you read this blog, NDI works to support and protect citizens who are fighting to make their voices heard by their leaders and push governments to be more open and accountable. We need techies who want to make a difference in the…
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Weekly Roundup 5/16/2017
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Last Friday marked the outbreak of a massive ransomware cyberattack named "WannaCry" that hit computer systems across the globe. Infected computers had their data encrypted, followed by a message saying that data would only be unencrypted if…
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FixMyCommunity Platform in Kosovo Starting to Show Results
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Guest Post by Jetmir Bakija:
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Weekly Roundup 5/3/17
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As we start up the weekly roundup after a break, we’ll be grabbing some news from the past few weeks. One significant event that happened in that period was…
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Using Redis as a Twitter Ingest Buffer
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Why use Redis?
Using Redis is a great way to buffer ingest operations in the event that there is a database issue or some other piece of the process fails. Redis is fast. Extremely fast. Up to hundreds of thousands of SET…
Read MoreTechCivica: Empowering Citizens through Tech Innovation
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Note: the following blog post was written by NDI Program Officer, Victor Salcedo, and first appeared on NDI's DemWorks blog. You can also check out the recap of the event on…
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Citizens monitoring election data in Zambia
Exciting news, readers! NDItech is offering a chance for you to become involved with our team. Thats right, NDItech is hiring an intern for the…
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